API Engineer

Job Title: API Engineer Department: Technology Reports to: CTO Location: Houston, TX - Hybrid Schedule General Position Description We are seeking an API Engineer to join our Technology team and play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable APIs that support both internal systems and external integrations. This is an individual contributor role requiring deep hands-on experience with API engineering using Python and AWS-based cloud services. The ideal candidate brings strong technical judgment, a passion for building reliable and high-performing services, and the ability to collaborate closely with product managers and technology team in an Agile environment. Key Responsibilities • Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable, and high-performing APIs (REST, GraphQL, and event-driven as appropriate) using Python • Build APIs that support both internal platform capabilities and external/customer-facing integrations • Leverage AWS cloud services to deploy, monitor, and scale API solutions • Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers and cross-functionally to translate business requirements into technical solutions • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient, reliable deployments • Optimize API performance, scalability, and availability, including monitoring and troubleshooting production issues • Apply best practices for API versioning, documentation, security, and observability • Participate actively in, technical design discussions and code reviews Qualifications • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant focus on API development • Strong experience building APIs using Python • Hands-on experience working in AWS cloud environments • Solid understanding of RESTful design, GraphQL, and/or event-driven architectures • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and modern development workflows • Proven ability to design systems for performance, scalability, and reliability • Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments • Strong collaboration and communication skills; comfortable working cross-functionally • No degree required; demonstrated experience and technical capability are paramount Employment Eligibility Only applicants currently eligible to work in the United States will be considered for this position. About Arva Intelligence Arva is a machine learning software-based SaaS company with offices located in Houston, TX and Park City, UT. Arva's platform was built to apply our novel ML technology to the agricultural industry, optimizing and measuring regenerative practices, improving crop yields, and reducing operational costs for producers. Our platform helps our customers and partners capitalize on "natural regenerative practices" by providing recommendations that improve environmental and ecological ecosystems. Platform features include practice verification and registration, as well as the sale of environmental asset credits to our corporate buyers. Thus, Arva is helping to keep the planet green by providing a "green-tech" platform that informs, measures, validates, predicts, and registers carbon exchange opportunities, allowing growers and ranchers to produce and sell credits that are bought by our corporate partners, who endorse sustainable food supply and carbon neutrality. This job description reflects the core duties of the role but is not intended to be all-inclusive. The role may evolve as the company grows, requiring additional responsibilities or changes in scope.