Backend Engineer – API Services

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We are seeking a skilled Backend Engineer with experience building customer facing API services to join our data engineering team. In this role you will design develop and maintain API Services that our clients will use to pull several major and potentially large scale data sets. You will work to implement efficient data solutions to ensuring data quality reliability and accessibility of data to our clients both internal and external.

Howyou can make an impact:

• Implement and configure API management platforms (MuleSoft Apigee Kong or Axway) to meet business requirements

• Design develop and deploy clientfacing APIs that adhere to industry standards and best practices

• Create and manage API policies for security throttling caching and transformation

• Build reusable integration components connectors and custom adapters

• Implement OAuth SAML JWT and other security protocols for API authentication and authorization

• Develop API documentation and resources for external client developers

• Monitor API performance and troubleshoot integration issues

• Collaborate with client teams to understand integration requirements and provide solutions

• Participate in API governance initiatives and ensure compliance with standards

• Support the onboarding of new API consumers and partners

• Drive performance optimization for latencysensitive API services at scale

• Document APIs and system architecture for internal and external consumers

• Implement security best practices and data protection measures

• Write clean efficient and welltested code

• Optimize application performance and address scalability challenges

• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback

• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues

Bring your passion heres whats needed:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

• 5 years of experience in backend development and API design

• 4 years of handson experience with at least one enterprise API management platform (MuleSoft Apigee Kong or Axway)

• Strong understanding of API gateway architecture proxy development and lifecycle management

• Knowledge of API monitoring analytics and developer portal functionality

• Strong proficiency in backend languages (Python Java Go)

• Background in SaaS product development or enterprise software

• Experience with database systems (SQL and/or NoSQL)

• Knowledge of API design principles and microservice architecture

• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes)

• Experience with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines

• Strong problemsolving skills and attention to detail

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

• Proficiency in related technologies: JSON/XML OpenAPI/Swagger OAuth JWT

• Experience supporting clientfacing integrations in production environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS)
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Knowledge of message queuing systems (Kafka RabbitMQ)
• Familiarity with infrastructureascode (Terraform CloudFormation)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools

How we support you:

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical dental and vision with 100% premium coverage foryou.
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• MyShare Employee Ownership Program
• Work with industry leaders
• 401K up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)
• Flexible Work including hybrid and remote possibilities based on position.

Location: This position is open to remote

Travel: Occasional travel may be needed (10% or less)

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