Senior API Engineer

Job Description: Senior API Engineer

About the job:

Join a brand-new international team that has the mandate to develop an Enterprise API platform.

As a Senior API Engineer, you will be responsible for developing the API platform of the future. Working closely with Product and Engineering teams, you will help drive the transition to a scalable, decoupled, API-driven architecture. Along the way, you will evangelize modern API best practices and ensure that the software developed is of the highest quality.

Responsibilities:

• Build a new API platform from the bottom up. This will involve both new components and integration to existing components.
• Partner directly with Engineering teams, assisting them to decouple from shared databases and rebuild their systems based on modern API principles.
  • Play a key role in raising awareness and supporting adoption of industry best practice and emerging trends, particularly relating to API development and application integration.
  • Lead a small team of high performing engineers

About You:

• Positive and inclusive communicator and collaborator.
• Experience in building and leading motivated, high-performing teams working in an agile environment.
• A hands-on driver rather than theoretical talker with a clear focus on delivery and what pushes the organization forward.
• Some knowledge of sports is desirable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on experience of RESTful web services and developing Web APIs and supporting technologies and practices.
• Hands-on experience working with messaging solutions e.g. Kafka and developing asynchronous integration between services.
• Deep knowledge of software engineering modern agile methodologies and SDLC approaches including domain-driven design, trunk-based development, test-driven development, acceptance test-driven development, and consumer-driven contract testing.
• Strong programming experience with one or more of Java, Go, Python, or TypeScript
• Proficient working with Relational Databases and querying with SQL
• Working experience with one or more of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (AWS Preferred)

Preferred Qualifications:

Relevant development experience with a range of items from -

• Securing APIs with OAuth and JWT
• Consumer Driven Contract Testing
• Machine readable documentation such as OpenAPI and AsyncAPI.
• API linting tools
• API Gateways
• Streaming architectures with Kafka and Flink
• Microservices Architectures
• Implementing API observability
• NoSQL databases and distributed caches
• Data Catalogs