Java Platform Engineer

REQUIREDSKILL:

6 years of overall software engineering or platform engineering experience

4 years of hands on experience designing developing and supporting API platforms or API gateway based architectures

Strong background in API design and development including RESTful APIs versioning strategies error handling and backward compatibility

Proven experience implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g. OAuth2 JWT mTLS API keys)

Extensive experience troubleshooting and resolving issues in large scale distributed production environments

Proficiency in Java particularly for API gateway or middleware development

Strong development experience with Python for automation scripting and platform tooling

Experience with API integration testing and automated testing tools including functional regression and performance testing

Solid understanding of observability and telemetry concepts including logging metrics tracing and alerting

Hands on experience with source control systems and collaborative development workflows (e.g. Git)

DESIREDSKILL:

Experience with enterprise grade API gateway platforms (e.g. Apigee Kong Azure API Management AWS API Gateway or equivalent)

Strong understanding of API lifecycle management including onboarding versioning deprecation and retirement strategies

Hands on experience implementing traffic management and governance policies such as rate limiting throttling quota management and request/response transformation

Familiarity with service mesh or ingress technologies and their interaction with API gateways

Experience integrating APIs with identity providers and enterprise authentication systems (e.g. OAuth2 providers OpenID Connect SSO platforms)

Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies for API and gateway configurations

Exposure to performance testing and load testing tools for validating API scalability and resilience

Experience working in cloud or hybrid environments including network connectivity and security considerations

Strong analytical mindset with the ability to diagnose complex integration and runtime issues across multiple systems

Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering security and operations teams

POSITIONSUMMARY

Seeking an experienced API Gateway Engineer to design build secure and operate API gateway platforms that support high volume business critical services at scale. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in API design development integration and lifecycle management with strong hands on experience delivering reliable and secure API connectivity across distributed systems.

This role focuses on implementing and managing API gateway capabilities including routing transformation policy enforcement authentication and authorization rate limiting and traffic management. The candidate will work closely with application teams platform engineers and security partners to ensure APIs are scalable observable resilient and secure by design.

Success in this role requires strong troubleshooting skills in complex large scale environments along with experience building automation and tooling in Python to support API onboarding testing deployment and operational workflows. A solid understanding of observability and telemetry including metrics logging and tracing is essential for ensuring platform reliability and rapid issue resolution.

The ideal candidate has strong Java experience particularly in API gateway or service oriented architectures and is fluent in automated testing practices for validating API behavior integrations and performance across environments.