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As an independent commercial solutions partner to pharmaceutical and life science companies, we bring together strategists, scientists, communicators, creatives, technologists, and data experts to tackle some of healthcare's most important challenges. \nOur teams work across consulting and communications to help clients shape strategy, launch innovations, engage stakeholders, and drive meaningful results throughout the product lifecycle. The work is complex, fast-moving, and deeply connected to improving lives, creating opportunities for curious minds to make a real difference every day. \nIf you're energized by collaboration, inspired by innovation, and motivated by work that matters, you'll find a place to grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact at BGBx. \nPosition Overview\nWe’re looking for a Mid-Level API Engineer to help build and evolve a shared API platform used across multiple products and services.\nThis is not a role focused on maintaining the backend of a single application. You’ll work on reusable platform capabilities that expose business logic, data, and contextual information securely and consistently to different types of consumers.\nWe’re looking for someone who thinks beyond individual endpoints and is comfortable making practical decisions about API design, security, data access, and platform architecture.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign and build APIs that are consumed by multiple applications and services.\nDevelop reusable platform capabilities rather than one-off integrations.\nBuild and maintain APIs for business logic, data access, and analytical use cases.\nDesign secure authentication and authorization patterns for different types of consumers.\nImplement fine-grained access controls and help define clear trust boundaries between systems.\nBuild custom services where standard or generated API tooling is not sufficient.\nWork closely with application and product teams to turn different requirements into coherent platform capabilities.\nHelp establish API standards around contracts, error handling, versioning, reliability, performance, and security.\nMonitor and troubleshoot production APIs and improve their performance and maintainability.\nContribute to APIs and platform capabilities that support emerging AI-driven use cases.\nWhat You Bring\n3-5 years of experience building production APIs and backend services.\nStrong experience with at least one modern backend language, ideally Python or TypeScript.\nSolid understanding of API design using technologies such as REST and GraphQL.\nHands-on experience with authentication and authorization in production systems.\nExperience designing APIs or services used by more than one application, team, or type of consumer.\nStrong SQL skills and a good understanding of data modeling.\nGood understanding of application and API security principles.\nExperience working with modern data-access, API, or semantic-layer technologies.\nAbility to reason about technical trade-offs and communicate them clearly.\nComfortable working across application, data, and platform concerns rather than within a narrowly defined backend stack.\nNice to Have\nExperience building internal platforms or shared developer infrastructure.\nExperience with identity and access management systems.\nFamiliarity with fine-grained or policy-based authorization models.\nExperience with analytical or semantic data layers.\nFamiliarity with APIs or data-access patterns designed for AI-enabled applications.\nExperience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nYou build APIs that are secure, reusable, understandable, and easy for other teams to consume. 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