# Senior Software Engineer, API Platform at Nayya

- Company: Nayya
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.nayya.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $160K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://nayya.com/career?gh_jid=6110897004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nayya-senior-software-engineer-api-platform/

## 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

Tags: Engineering