API Technical Lead

Job description

Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes and transportation, it's our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King, sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. Do you dare to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities? Do you want to contribute to making a better future? If the answer is yes, we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging what's possible for a sustainable world. Learn about our benefits designed for you to Thrive at work and at home. We boldly go. **Where Is The Work** Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires. **What's In It For You** Trane Technologies is seeking an API Technical Lead who will play a critical role in enabling reliable, secure, and scalable API solutions across our global technology ecosystem. This position sits at the center of enterprise connectivity, ensuring seamless integration and communication between cloud platforms, enterprise applications, digital products, middleware solutions, and business-critical systems. As an API Technical Lead, you will work with modern API management platforms, integration technologies, and event-driven architectures to build and support resilient, high-performing, and reusable API services that enable business growth and digital transformation. You will collaborate with architects, application teams, infrastructure teams, and business partners to deliver API platform solutions that are secure, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards and best practices. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving complex API and platform engineering challenges, improving operational reliability, and driving innovation across a diverse technology landscape. You will gain exposure to enterprise-scale API ecosystems while contributing to the modernization and continuous evolution of our API platforms. **What You Will Do** - 8+ years of hands-on experience in API design, development, and enterprise integration delivery. - Strong experience in designing, developing, securing, and managing APIs across on-premises, SaaS, cloud, and hybrid ecosystems. - Proven expertise in end-to-end API lifecycle delivery, including planning, design, development, testing, deployment, publishing, and support of enterprise APIs. - Deep hands-on experience with Google Apigee API Management/Gateway, including API proxy development, shared flows, traffic management, analytics, and policy enforcement. - Strong understanding of API security concepts and implementation, including authentication, authorization, OAuth 2.0, token-based security, throttling, rate limiting, and secure service exposure. - Experience developing and testing API proxies, reusable shared flows, and custom policies using JavaScript, Java, Node.js, Python, and related technologies. - Deep knowledge of API design patterns, RESTful architecture principles, and enterprise API best practices. - Experience implementing advanced API management capabilities such as logging, caching, request/response transformation, custom analytics, monitoring, throttling, and performance optimization. - Strong understanding of API standards and integration technologies, including OpenAPI 3.0, Swagger, REST, SOAP, JSON, messaging, microservices, and distributed integration patterns. - Hands-on experience designing stateless distributed architectures with strong focus on scalability, resiliency, performance, and maintainability. - Experience analyzing, documenting, and improving key API platform capabilities such as API catalogs, developer enablement, monitoring, observability, and analytics. - Good understanding of DevSecOps best practices, with exposure to source control, CI/CD pipelines, and automation using GitHub and GitHub Actions. - Ability to create architecture diagrams, solution flows, and technical documentation using Visio or similar tools to communicate API and integration designs effectively. - Strong communication skills with the ability to engage and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Demonstrated ability to champion API best practices, continuous improvement, standardization, and knowledge sharing across large-scale enterprise initiatives. - Foster a culture of engineering excellence and innovation by promoting reusable patterns, scalable API architecture, and modern platform engineering practices. **What You Will Bring** - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical work experience. - Proven experience as an API Platform Engineer, Integration Engineer, or similar role, with 7–10 years of experience in a development, engineering, or technical lead capacity. - Strong experience in designing, developing, securing, and managing APIs across on-premises, SaaS, cloud, and hybrid ecosystems. - Proven expertise in end-to-end API lifecycle delivery, including planning, design, development, testing, deployment, publishing, and support of enterprise APIs. - Solid understanding of API platform engineering, API gateways, API management, and enterprise integration patterns. - Experience implementing scalable, secure, and reusable API solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards and best practices. - Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, API security, authentication and authorization mechanisms, and service governance. - Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including architects, developers, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders. - Strong problem-solving, communication, and technical documentation skills. We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and program