Nayya's mission is to create a future where AI turns overwhelming benefits choices into clear paths, where intelligence anticipates needs, and guidance arrives ahead of the question. Backed by Felicis and ICONIQ.
About the role
The salary range for New York based candidates for this role is $160,000- $200,000. We use a location factor to adjust this range for candidates that are located outside of geographic region of our New York office. Placement within the salary band is determined based on experience.
What they're looking for
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time building backend services and public or partner-facing APIs
- Deep expertise in API design (REST, GraphQL, or gRPC), distributed systems, and the tradeoffs that come with both
- Strong production experience with any of Python / Go / Node / Typescript / Ruby on Rails on AWS
- A point of view on what makes an API or tool good (or bad) for an AI agent to use, and the instincts to design for that from day one
- Track record of leading projects that span multiple teams, and mentoring the engineers around you
- Comfortable owning operational quality observability, on-call, incident response, and continuous improvement
More about this role
Founded in 2019, Nayya is on a mission to connect people’s most important information, so they can thrive in their health and wealth. Powered by AI and advanced analytics, Nayya’s platform transforms complex benefits experiences into intuitive, seamless, and ongoing interactions—meeting people's real world needs. As a trusted platform and partner to leading employers, benefits solutions, and HR tech providers, Nayya unlocks long-term value through helping employees live more resilient lives. Backed by strategic investors like ICONIQ, Felicis Ventures, SemperVirens, Workday Ventures, MetLife Nextgen Ventures, and ADP Ventures, Nayya is ushering in the future of health and wealth for all.
The API Platform team builds the foundation everything else at Nayya runs on, the APIs, services, and developer tools that power our products and our partner integrations. When a carrier sends us data, an HR platform calls a Nayya endpoint, or MCP tool via it’s agent it goes through our platform.
We're now building toward a future where AI agents are first-class consumers of our platform. That means designing APIs, tools, and protocols that agents and MCP servers ours and our partners' can use...
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