About the Job
As a Senior API Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and enhancing cutting-edge application integrations within an agile delivery team. You will leverage your expertise to design, implement, and manage API solutions that connect a variety of systems and services seamlessly.
Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline.
Experience Requirements
- Hands-on experience in API development, with a deep understanding of API design and implementation.
- Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and API management platforms such as APIGEE, with a solid understanding of web service protocols and API gateways.
- Extensive experience working with AWS technologies, including ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Terraform, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, ALB, NLB, DynamoDB, Aurora RDS, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, AWS Secrets Manager, and Kafka.
- Strong familiarity with authentication/authorization protocols such as OAuth, SSO/SAML.
- Proficiency in build tools (Maven, Gradle) and unit testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito).
- Foundational experience with service orchestration, messaging technologies, and microservices architectures.
- Solid understanding of OpenAPI Specifications (Swagger) and API interface design.
- Exposure to SOAP and traditional web services is a plus.
- Experience with API gateway features such as rate limiting, spike arrest, and quotas.
Role & Responsibilities
- End-to-End API Integration: Own the full lifecycle of API development, from design and implementation to deployment and maintenance, ensuring robust and secure integrations across diverse systems.
- API Design & Documentation: Analyze data, workflows, system interfaces, and software to create detailed API specifications and design documents. Establish and enforce API management best practices and standards.
- API Security & Integration: Build secure, scalable integration APIs to interface with a wide range of systems and services, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
- CI/CD Implementation: Set up and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines using tools like GitLab, Harness, and deploy to AWS EKS or serverless environments.
- System Gap Analysis: Identify gaps between current systems and desired end-state solutions, and develop actionable roadmaps to bridge these gaps.
- Software Development Lifecycle: Design, develop, and enhance software solutions. Perform unit testing, code reviews, performance testing, and documentation. Ensure code quality and maintainability.
- Project Ownership & Mentorship: Take ownership of moderately complex projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within scope. Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative environment.
- Agile Methodology: Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment, delivering timely, high-quality solutions.
