Technical Lead, API

Asana
Vancouver
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Delegation","Mentoring","Leadership"]

Experienced Technical Lead for Asana’s Developer Platform and API, driving technical vision and execution for API core features, security, and developer experience. Leads a team, collaborates with product, design, data science, and user research, and mentors engineers to ship scalable API infrastructure from Vancouver with a hybrid in-office schedule.

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Technical Lead, API

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Job Summary

Experienced Technical Lead for Asana’s Developer Platform and API, driving technical vision and execution for API core features, security, and developer experience. Leads a team, collaborates with product, design, data science, and user research, and mentors engineers to ship scalable API infrastructure from Vancouver with a hybrid in-office schedule.
Location: Vancouver
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set the technical strategy for the API platform within Asana and advocate for engineering-driven investments, with a vision for keeping our systems flexible and maintainable to meet customer needs now and in the future.
  • •Drive the team to continually and holistically better itself, enabling the engineers around you to deliver at a high velocity while helping them grow their skills in the process.
  • •Be a key collaborator with other groups in Engineering and a technical counterpart to the API team's Engineering Manager, serving as a public face for API engineering and representing our interests across team boundaries.
  • •Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and User Research to deeply understand developer needs, and then propose elegant solutions to meet them.
  • •Own and shape the guidelines for what good API design looks like, partnering with product engineering teams to help them implement those best practices in a self-serve manner.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceWellness StipendRetirementFamily Building

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of experience working in large codebases.
  • •2+ years leading engineering teams.
  • •1+ years building public-facing API products or Developer Platforms.
  • •Excellent communication, collaboration, and delegation skills.
  • •Deep project management experience including high-level timeline planning, risk mitigation, stakeholder management, and coordinating the work of others.
Experience:6+ yearsAPIDeveloper PlatformSaaS
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationDelegationMentoringLeadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ScalaJavaScriptTypeScript

Company Brief

Asana
Asana provides a work management platform that helps teams coordinate, track, and manage tasks, projects, and workflows. It offers collaboration, task tracking, automation, and reporting tools for organizations of all sizes.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 500M to 1B
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2008
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