API Architect

**CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA** **About SafelyYou** SafelyYou’s passionate mission is to empower safer, more person\-centered care across senior living through world\-leading AI, industry\-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians, significantly improving outcomes for residents while increasing peace of mind for families and reducing costs for communities. Originating in 2015 as the doctoral research of CEO George Netscher—and inspired by his own family's experience with Alzheimer's disease—SafelyYou was spun out of UC Berkeley’s Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, one of the top five AI research groups in the world. And today, our company is solving critical challenges in senior living, from resident falls and ER visits to staffing concerns, length of stay, and NOI. All helping ensure that communities can focus on improved care for residents while still reaching their financial goals. SafelyYou is one of five most innovative fall technologies referenced in the Senate Falls Report (2019\), a winner of the McKnight’s Tech Partner of the Year, and has been named to Fortune’s Impact 20 list, which recognizes companies making people’s lives better through innovation. **Your Role at SafelyYou** As an API Architect at SafelyYou, you will be responsible for designing, building, and operating our core backend services and platform infrastructure. You will be the primary architect and technical owner of the External Data API, designing and improving the critical bridge between SafelyYou's data systems and our customers. This is a fully remote, senior\-level role. You are expected to bring stories of ways that APIs have gone well and poorly, technical expertise, operate with minimal guidance, and proactively mentor other engineers while shaping the future of our data and API platforms. **Key Responsibilities:** * Own the design, development, and operation of scalable APIs, microservices, and backend platform infrastructure using Python and AWS. * Own the architecture, continuous improvement, and lifecycle of the External Data API, serving as the technical bridge between our internal data systems and our customers. * Support and evolve data governance tooling including registries and data dictionaries, such as the Event Registry. Establishing patterns and best practices for schema governance, versioning, documentation, and compatibility as our architecture evolves. * Support and evolve internal APIs used to provide information from data systems to applications built by other SafelyYou engineers, such as the feature enablement cache. Providing documentation, implementation examples, and support while enforcing best practices and driving adoption. * Architect and implement streaming data pipelines, driving the transition from batch processing to real\-time data streaming architectures. * Draft and maintain comprehensive Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), API specifications, and system