API Product Designer
Searoutes Remote (🇫🇷 Nice, Maritime Alps, France)
The role involves designing intuitive APIs in collaboration with engineers and owning the entire Developer Experience, including documentation, SDKs, and onboarding flows to ensure rapid developer success. This includes conducting user research and creating a standardized API Style Guide for ecosystem consistency.
Responsibilities
- API Architecture & Design: collaborate with engineers to design intuitive APIs that follow industry best practices
- Developer Experience (DX): own the documentation portal, SDKs, and onboarding flow to ensure developers can get to their first request in seconds and their Aha! moment in minutes
- User Research: conduct interviews with clients to understand their pain points and integration workflows
- Standardization: create and maintain an API Style Guide to ensure consistency across all services
- Prototyping: use tools like Stoplight, Postman, or Swagger to prototype and mock APIs before a single line of code is written
Requirements
- Love the world of APIs and get excited trying out newly released APIs, on-boardings flows, and writing prototypes
- Fluent with authentication, versioning, documentation, error handling, performance, and standards like REST, GraphQL, or Webhooks
- Systems Thinker: understand the constraints of backend systems but have empathy for users
- Pragmatic Architect: balance the desire for the perfect API design with the startup reality of delivering value to customers today
- Public Iteration Advocate: comfortable showing your work and seeing public disagreement or feedback as a signal for improvement
- Async Native: expert at asynchronous communication and can move projects forward through clear, concise writing
Key Skills
- API design
- API architecture
- Developer Experience (DX)
- User Research
- Standardization
- Prototyping
- Stoplight
- Postman
- Swagger
- Python
- REST
- GraphQL
- Webhooks
- Authentication
- Versioning
- Documentation
- Error handling
- Performance
- Systems Thinking
- Pragmatic Architecture
- Public Iteration
- Async Communication
- Collaboration
- Leadership
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Design Thinking
- User-Centered Design
Benefits
- Have a chance to re-shape the future of climate in the logistics
- Be empowered to deliver your best work remotely and get a stipend to set you up
- Have a flat hierarchy where you will have direct access to the founders and won’t be tied up in politics
- Have a high degree of learning and ownership in a dynamic environment
- Take part in team-building events in the south of France
About Searoutes
Gain control of your logistics carbon footprint. Searoutes is a solutions provider for shippers to get CO2 visibility through accurate calculation. Searoutes offering includes accredited scope 3 emissions reports all modes and insightful CO2 emissions analytics per carriers to improve the procurement process and easily reduce their carbon impact.
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