Sample Answer
On a recent project, I owned the backend for a new onboarding flow used by both web and mobile. The mobile team wanted one big “god” endpoint to reduce round trips, while frontend preferred smaller, more granular endpoints. I was worried that a mega-payload would be brittle and hard to evolve. I pulled everyone into a 45‑minute API design session and came with concrete examples: sample payloads, error responses, and a simple sequence diagram. We aligned on 3 focused endpoints with a shared, versioned response schema and a consistent error envelope (`code`, `message`, `fieldErrors`). I added OpenAPI docs, mocked responses in Postman, and a contract test suite that ran in CI. During rollout, we did a behind‑feature‑flag deploy and monitored logs and client error rates. We shipped on time, kept mobile network calls down by ~30%, and had zero contract-related production bugs in the first month.
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