Über diese Sr. Director of Engineering - API Stelle bei Hatchit
hatch I.T. is partnering with Babel Street to find a Sr. Director of Engineering. Please see details below:
About the Company
Babel Street is the trusted technology partner for the world’s most advanced identity intelligence and risk operations. They deliver advanced AI and data analytics solutions providing unmatched, analysis-ready data regardless of language, proactive risk identification, 360-degree insights, high-speed automation, and seamless integration into existing systems. Babel Street empowers government and commercial organizations to transform high-stakes identity and risk operations into a strategic advantage. The actionable insights we deliver safeguard lives and protect critical assets around the world. Babel Street is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with regional offices in Boston, MA and Cleveland, OH, and international offices in Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, and the U.K.
Why This Role Matters:
This role will be instrumental to Babel Street’s AI-native technology strategy. The API and MCP platform will serve as the interface layer between data, AI, and product capabilities, enabling agents, developers, and systems to interact seamlessly.
This is a high-impact, senior technical leadership role with broad influence across the organization and the opportunity to shape the future of Babel Street’s platform. The position spans four core domains:
API Platform & Strategy
You will define and lead Babel Street’s API-first platform strategy, establishing consistent patterns for service design, versioning, discoverability, and governance.
You will help evolve the platform toward agent-ready APIs, ensuring services are consumable by both human developers and AI agents. You will establish standards for API consistency, reliability, and performance across the organization.
You will also work closely with product and engineering teams to ensure APIs are designed as first-class platform capabilities, not just service interfaces.
MCP & Agent Integration
You will lead Babel Street’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) strategy and implementation, enabling agents and AI systems to interact with services in a standardized and scalable way. This includes defining patterns for:
You will partner closely with AI and platform teams to enable agent-native workflows across the organization.
Semantic APIs & Agent-Ready Interfaces
You will lead the design of semantic, agent-friendly APIs, where documentation becomes a first-class interface for AI-driven systems. This includes defining standards for:
You will establish best practices for documentation-as-code, ensuring APIs are designed for both developers and AI systems.
Context Management & Runtime Patterns
You will define patterns for context-aware APIs and services, including:
You will help design scalable context-aware systems leveraging technologies such as Vertex AI Context Caching and related frameworks.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
What Success Looks Like:
30 Days
60 Days
90 Days
Benefits at Babel Street (just to name a few...)
- Health Benefits: Babel Street covers 85-100% monthly premium costs for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability insurances – for you and your family!
- Retirement Plans: Babel Street offers both a Traditional and Roth 401(K) with a very competitive match.
- Unlimited Flexible Leave: We trust our employees to manage their own time and balance their personal and work lives.
- Holidays: Babel Street provides employees with 12 paid Federal Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement: We are committed to investing in our employees. One way we do that is with our Tuition Reimbursement Program for continuing education.
