Staff Platform Engineer - Platform Integrations at MeridianLink

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MeridianLink is hiring a staff platform engineer - platform integrations focused on platform integrations.

MeridianLink

Location: Remote
Advertised region: US Remote / United States
Employment: FullTime
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: Python, Java, C#, AWS

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Role overview

This is a senior individual contributor and the primary technical authority on the integrations that connect MeridianLink’s products to one another and to the external systems our clients depend on. This role sits within Platform Services and owns integration architecture, API design, and the patterns and standards that engineering teams in adjacent product lines build against. The right person combines deep technical expertise in integration and API systems with the maturity to operate across teams and drive architectural decisions.

Staff engineers operate across multiple teams or an entire product line. They set technical direction, make architecture and technology decisions that others build against, and raise the engineering floor across the teams they touch. Staff engineers at MeridianLink are active, daily users of AI-assisted development tools, and go further by building the workflows, tooling, and patterns that make those tools more effective for the teams around them.

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Makes critical architecture and design decisions that span multiple teams or an entire product area

Evaluates technology choices with a clear view of trade-offs at scale, not just for the immediate problem

Drives technical standards and patterns that other engineers can follow without being supervised

Identifies systemic problems before they become incidents

Reasons fluently across the fundamentals of distributed systems: how systems handle load, how they store large datasets, and how they stay correct under failure

Treats every architecture decision as a trade-off between speed, cost, and correctness, and makes that trade-off explicit when guiding teams; sizes systems with back-of-the-envelope estimation and decides microservices versus monolith on evidence rather than default

Provides day-to-day technical direction for one or more scrum teams without holding a management title

Steps into ambiguous, high-stakes technical problems across teams and drives them to resolution, without being asked

Holds a high bar in code and design review across team boundaries

Responsibilities

Design, build and operate software or platform systems for platform integrations.
Collaborate with product, engineering and customer stakeholders.
Improve reliability, performance, testing, automation and documentation.
Translate complex requirements into maintainable production systems.

Qualifications

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or product areas
Proven ability to make and defend architecture decisions at scale
Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
Demonstrated experience designing and building production-grade integration systems: RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, or enterprise messaging patterns
Experience with API gateway technologies and API lifecycle management, including versioning, contracts, and deprecation
Strong proficiency in at least one backend language used in integration and platform contexts (Java, Python, C#, or similar)
Experience deploying and operating integration workloads on cloud platforms, AWS strongly preferred
Familiarity with event streaming platforms and asynchronous processing patterns
Experience with enterprise integration patterns and frameworks at scale across multiple engineering teams
Prior work in a multi-product fintech or financial services environment where integration complexity spans regulatory boundaries
Experience with API management platforms and governance tooling
Experience establishing integration standards or governance processes across multiple engineering teams
A successful hire quickly becomes the integration team’s architectural anchor, reducing the number of design decisions that need to escalate while simultaneously raising the quality of the decisions that happen at the team level. Over time, impact is measured in the durability of the integration standards they establish, the engineering hours saved by the tooling and documentation they produce, and the degree to which product teams across the organization trust the integration platform as a reliable foundation.

Technology in this role

Python: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or product areas Proven ability to make and defend architecture decisions at scale Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools Bachelor’s degree in .
Java: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or product areas Proven ability to make and defend architecture decisions at scale Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools Bachelor’s degree in .
C#: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or product areas Proven ability to make and defend architecture decisions at scale Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools Bachelor’s degree in .
AWS: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or product areas Proven ability to make and defend architecture decisions at scale Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools Bachelor’s degree in .
C: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or product areas Proven ability to make and defend architecture decisions at scale Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools Bachelor’s degree in .
Go: Staff engineers at MeridianLink are active, daily users of AI-assisted development tools, and go further by building the workflows, tooling, and patterns that make those tools more effective for the teams around .
CAN: Technical Leadership & Architecture Makes critical architecture and design decisions that span multiple teams or an entire product area Evaluates technology choices with a clear view of trade-offs at scale, not just for the immediate problem Drives technical standards and .

Benefits

Location and remote arrangement as stated in the official posting.
Opportunity to work on mapping, financial technology or AI platform products.

About MeridianLink

This is a deeply technical, hands-on engineering role and an integral part of the platform itself. You will write the code that traces agent actions across a multi-agent workflow, adopt and extend leading open-source explainability and observability frameworks, and build the primitives product teams use to surface explanations to lenders, credit unions, and their borrowers. You should have real hands-on experience with LLM-based systems and a strong pull toward the problems of trust, tracing, and evaluation. You do not need to be an expert in all of it. This is a place to build that expertise while the platform is being built, working alongside a Staff engineer team lead and architects who will invest in your growth.

What it means to be an L2 AI Engineer at MeridianLink

L2 AI Engineers handle a broad range of work independently, from bug fixes to feature development. They have developed a specialization and are deepening it. They write code that other engineers trust, ask good questions, and are starting to help the engineers around them. L2 AI Engineers at MeridianLink are active, daily users of AI-assisted development tools.

Completes assigned features and bug fixes independently, with limited need for day-to-day guidance

Designs components within a well-defined scope; escalates questions on complex system design rather than guessing

Participates in code review and provides constructive feedback

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Source checked: 2026-11-05

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