Sr. Director of Engineering - API
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Reston, VA OR Somerville, MA
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience operating at Principal Engineer or Staff+ level
- Strong hands-on experience building distributed systems
- Experience designing and building API-first platforms
- Experience with cloud-native architectures (GCP preferred)
- Experience building developer platforms or service-oriented architectures
- Strong system design and architectural thinking skills
- Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives
Nice to have
- Hands-on work with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Familiarity with Vertex AI Agent Engine
- Background in ADK and reasoning frameworks such as LangChain
- Understanding of the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Exposure to data warehouse technologies like BigQuery and Snowflake
- Knowledge of Apigee or similar API gateway solutions
- Proven ability to design semantic APIs for AI or agent-driven use cases
- Experience managing context or building memory systems
- Development of agent-based architectures or orchestration frameworks
- Exposure to Anti-Gravity
Full description
hatch I.T. is partnering with Babel Street to find a Sr. Director of Engineering. Please see details below:
About the Role
Babel Street is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead Babel Street’s API and MCP platform strategy and delivery as we evolve toward an AI-native, agent-driven platform.
This is a hands-on, senior technical leadership role responsible for defining and delivering API-first platform capabilities that enable both developers and AI agents to interact with Babel Street’s services. You will lead the design and implementation of semantic APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, and context-aware service patterns that power next-generation intelligence workflows.
This role requires a finger-on-keyboard engineer who can both define direction and deliver foundational systems. You will partner closely with AI, Data, and Platform teams to ensure Babel Street’s APIs and services are consistent, discoverable, scalable, and optimized for agentic workflows.
You will work in close partnership with the Architecture function to align on long-term technical direction, ensuring API and MCP platform decisions are consistent with the company’s broader architectural vision while maintaining a strong focus on execution and delivery.
This is a hybrid role working out of either their Reston, VA or Somerville, MA office. Full remote may be considered.
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: