Staff Platform Engineer - Platform Integrations

POSITION SUMMARY This is a senior individual contributor and the primary technical authority on the integrations that connect MeridianLink’s products to one another and to the external systems our clients depend on. This role sits within Platform Services and owns integration architecture, API design, and the patterns and standards that engineering teams across Consumer, Portal/Access, and adjacent product lines build against. The right person combines deep technical expertise in integration and API systems with the maturity to operate across teams and drive architectural decisions without formal authority. KEY COMPETENCIES Staff engineers operate across multiple teams or an entire product line. They set technical direction, make architecture and technology decisions that others build against, and raise the engineering floor across the teams they touch. Staff engineers at MeridianLink are active, daily users of AI-assisted development tools, and go further by building the workflows, tooling, and patterns that make those tools more effective for the teams around them. TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP & ARCHITECTURE - Makes critical architecture and design decisions that span multiple teams or an entire product area - Evaluates technology choices with a clear view of trade-offs at scale, not just for the immediate problem - Drives technical standards and patterns that other engineers can follow without being supervised - Identifies systemic problems before they become incidents CROSS-TEAM EXECUTION - Provides day-to-day technical direction for one or more scrum teams without holding a management title - Steps into ambiguous, high-stakes technical problems across teams and drives them to resolution, without being asked - Holds a high bar in code and design review across team boundaries INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE & API DESIGN - Defines integration patterns, API contracts, and data exchange standards used across product lines - Evaluates build-vs-buy decisions for integration infrastr