Technical Lead, APIActive$211K–$240K

The opportunity

At Asana, we believe AI represents the future of work, and APIs are at the heart of how AI connects with the tools where work happens. Asana’s API team owns the gateways that enable data flow into and out of Asana, whether via the public API used to build new apps and agents or…

What you'll do

  • Set the technical strategy for the API platform within Asana and advocate for: engineering-driven investments, with a vision for keeping our systems flexible and maintainable

  • Drive the team to continually and holistically better itself, enabling the: engineers around you to deliver at a high velocity while helping them grow their skills in the process

  • Be a key collaborator with other groups in Engineering and a technical: counterpart to the API team’s Engineering Manager, serving as a public face for API engineering and representing our interests across team boundaries

  • Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and User Research to: deeply understand developer and agentic needs, and then propose elegant solutions to meet them

  • Own and shape the guidelines for what good API design looks like, partnering: with product engineering teams to help them implement those best practices in a self-serve manner

  • Develop across the entire stack to make developers’ experiences better by: writing clean, beautiful code and leaving things better than you found them: this includes writing Scala, Javascript, and Typescript

What they're looking for

  • + years of experience as an engineer working in large, complex codebases
  • + years leading engineering teams of 5+ engineers
  • + years building public-facing API products or Developer Platforms
  • Deep project management experience including high-level timeline planning,: risk mitigation, stakeholder management, and coordinating the work of others