Senior Software Engineer
Job Purpose and Impact
The Senior Professional, Software Engineering role is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise APIs and API platform components. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to build secure, scalable APIs, enhance API platform capabilities, improve performance, automate CI/CD workflows, and troubleshoot complex API issues. This position also supports code reviews, governance, and continuous improvement efforts across the API ecosystem.
Key Accountabilities
- API DEVELOPMENT: Designs and develops RESTful APIs across cloud and on-prem environments. Implements API standards, routing logic, transformations, and reusable patterns to ensure secure, scalable, high-quality services. Develops API components and platform utilities using at least one programming language such as Go (preferred), Java, Python, or Node.js to support performant and cloud-native architectures.
- API PLATFORM ENGINEERING : Implements and optimizes API gateway and API management platform components, including policies, developer portal capabilities, lifecycle workflows, and analytics. Enhances reliability and performance using cloud-native engineering best practices, containerization (Docker), and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes).
- CI/CD & AUTOMATION: Leads automated deployment of APIs and gateway configurations using CI/CD pipelines. Integrates automated build, test, and release workflows. Applies infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Helm/Kubernetes) for consistent provisioning and configuration. Implements Git-based source control practices (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket), including branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews.
- OPTIMIZATION: Optimize API workloads across cloud-native environments (Azure/AWS/GCP).
- API SECURITY & COMPLIANCE : Implements API security controls (OAuth2, JWT, Certificates, Rate limiting, Quota, IP Allow Lists, Threat protection). Ensures compliance with security and audit standards.
- COLLABORATION : Engages with architects, product managers, developers, and infrastructure teams to design API solutions. Supports cross-team integration and alignment.
- TESTING & DEBUGGING : Develops unit, integration, contract, and performance tests. Performs root-cause analysis and resolves complex API and gateway issues.
- CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT : Enhances API scalability, platform resilience, developer experience, and operational efficiency. Stays current on API technologies, gateway advancements, and cloud-native engineering practices.
- DOCUMENTATION : Maintains documentation for API specifications, platform configurations, CI/CD processes, and operational runbooks to support consistency and knowledge sharing.
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT : Provides advanced support for API and platform incidents. Troubleshoots containerized workloads, gateway performance issues, and CI/CD failures. Participates in peer reviews and mentors colleagues in API development and platform engineering best practices.
Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years of IT experience, preferably in integration and API engineering.
- Minimum 6 years of hands-on API Management (APIM) experience.
- Preferred experience with Layer7/Kong; experience with any leading API gateway technology is welcomed.
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