API Engineer

About the role

About Us

At BGBx, we're driven by a simple idea: breakthrough thinking creates breakthrough impact. 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.

Our 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.

If 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.

Position Overview

We’re looking for an API Engineer to help build and evolve a shared API platform used across multiple products and services.

This 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.

We’re looking for someone who thinks beyond individual endpoints and is comfortable making practical decisions about API design, security, data access, and platform architecture.

What You’ll Do

- Design and build APIs that are consumed by multiple applications and services.

- Develop reusable platform capabilities rather than one-off integrations.

- Build and maintain APIs for business logic, data access, and analytical use cases.

- Design secure authentication and authorization patterns for different types of consumers.

- Implement fine-grained access controls and help define clear trust boundaries between systems.

- Build custom services where standard or generated API tooling is not sufficient.

- Work closely with application and product teams to turn different requirements into coherent platform capabilities.

- Help establish API standards around contracts, error handling, versioning, reliability, performance, and security.

- Monitor and troubleshoot production APIs and improve their performance and maintainability.

- Contribute to APIs and platform capabilities that support emerging AI-driven use cases.

What You Bring

- 5+ years of experience building production APIs and backend services.

- Strong experience with at least one modern backend language, ideally Python or TypeScript.

- Solid understanding of API design using technologies such as REST and GraphQL.

- Hands-on experience with authentication and authorization in production systems.

- Experience designing APIs or services used by more than one application, team, or type of consumer.