Hire an
API Developer

You don’t just need endpoints, you need structure, stability, and a dev who doesn’t return 200 OK for total chaos.

What an API Developer
Can Help You With

Design Contracts
That Make Sense

A good API dev doesn’t just sling routes; they define consistent, documented endpoints with sane naming, logical versioning, and predictable error handling. You know, like a grown-up.

Handle Authentication,
Authorization, and Rate Limiting

They implement secure, scalable API access using OAuth, JWT, API keys, and real-world rate limits. No more surprise throttling or wide-open endpoints.

Build and
Maintain the Glue of Your Product

APIs are your product’s backbone. Good developers keep them fast, monitor for drift, fix edge-case bugs, and make sure everything plays nice with the frontend, mobile, third-party services, and whatever’s next.

We Have an API Developer
for Hire In Your Industry

Tech & SaaS

Multi-tenant APIs, internal tooling, webhooks, integrations, and docs that don’t lie.

eCommerce

Product APIs, inventory syncs, real-time pricing, checkout endpoints that don’t crash on Cyber Monday.

Healthcare

Secure patient data flows, HIPAA-compliant endpoints, proper logging and access control.

Finance & Banking

Audit-friendly logic, ironclad token systems, and clean API contracts for high-stakes systems.

Roles & Experience Levels

Junior API Developer

Helps build and document endpoints, squash basic bugs, and avoid exposing your database to the public.

1-2 years of experience

Mid-level API Developer

Designs reliable endpoints, handles auth, versioning, rate limits, and keeps the stack stable.

3-5 years of experience

Senior API Developer

Architects robust API platforms, enforces standards, scales performance, and makes sure nothing breaks in prod.

5+ years of experience

API Developer Lead / Manager

Owns long-term API health, roadmap alignment, breaking change policies, and contracts that don’t turn into tech debt.

7+ years of experience

Why Hire an API Developer with CompuForce?

We show you real portfolios, not just resumes. You pick based on proof, not promises.

Most roles filled in 3–5 days. No long waits. No endless interview chains.

Freelancers, full-timers, or someone in between. We’ve got the right setup for your needs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do your developers use REST, GraphQL, or both?

Both. Some are REST-first. Others live in GraphQL. We’ll match based on your stack (and your opinionated engineers).

They can do either, or both. MVP to version 3.0+ with zero breaking changes.

Yes. Swagger, Postman collections, OpenAPI, you’ll get clean, human-readable docs.

Absolutely. Stripe, Twilio, Salesforce, weird SOAP stuff, we’ve seen it all.

We’ll work quickly to find a replacement or adjust the talent profile until we get the right match at no extra cost.

Ready to Hire an API Developer?

If your endpoints are undocumented, your frontend team is fuming, or your last dev returned XML on purpose, we’ve got someone who can clean it up and ship something that works.