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# Staff Backend Engineer, Connect (API Platform)

- **Company:** OpenPhone Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $205,000 - $242,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Python (Programming Language), OAuth, Systems Integration, Scripting, Backend, Hubspot, Webhooks, Api Management
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/staff-backend-engineer-connect-api-platform-new-york-ny--df6e4bcb-b7b7-4c55-9ca9-e07481ac7d5e

## About the Role

Application Programming Interface (API), Small Business, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Customer Satisfaction, MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional, Application Programming Interface (API), OAuth, Leadership, Ecosystems, Python Programming/Scripting Language, * 10+ years in engineering with real time at staff level. Youve done this job before, at least once, and you want to be a technical leader rather than a manager

 * Youve built or owned a public API, developer platform, SDKs or webhooks for a product people pay for. Dev tooling backgrounds count
 * Youve driven a big cross-team change at a company with 80+ engineers, by getting the right people in each team on board rather than posting a doc and hoping
 * Youve worked through the stage Quo is at now: Series B into growth, 100 to 300 engineers, process being built and rebuilt. Ideally youve taken a company a step past where we are and know what works
 * Youre comfortable owning infrastructure alongside application code. This isnt a platform engineering role, but you shouldnt flinch at it
 * You communicate clearly in writing and in person, and youre comfortable building rapport across teams

## Description

Quo is the phone system for modern businesses, and the Connect team is the front door for everything that talks to Quo without a human clicking in the app: the public API, MCP, OAuth, webhooks and integrations with tools like HubSpot, Jobber and Clio.