Business Title: API Developer

Location: Research Triangle Park, NC (100% Remote Job)

Job Type: 3+ months contract

***REMOTE POSITION***

A Senior Engineer is a leading technical contributor who can consistently take a poorly defined business or technical problem, work it to a well-defined problem/specification, and execute on it at a high level. They have a strong focus on metrics, both for the impact of their work and for its inner workings/operations. They are a model for the team on best practices for software development in general (and their specialization in particular), including code quality, documentation, DevOps practices, and testing, and consistently mentor junior members of the team. They ensure the robustness of our services and serve as an escalation point in the operation of existing services, pipelines, and workflows.

A Senior Engineer should be deeply familiar with the tools of their specialization and of their customers and engaged with the open-source community surrounding them – potentially, even to the level of contributing pull requests.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable APIs that meet the requirements of internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure APIs are secure, efficient, and user-friendly, following industry best practices and standards
• Produces well-engineered software, including appropriate automated test suites, technical documentation, and operational strategy
• Diverse problem solver who surfaces opportunities to reuse modular code and develop microservices to drive efficiencies
• Provides input into the roadmaps of teams representing upstream dependencies to help improve the overall program of work
• Ensure consistent application of platform abstractions to ensure quality and consistency with respect to logging and lineage
• Fully versed in coding best practices and ways of working and participates in code reviews and partnering to improve the team’s standards
• Adhere to QMS framework and CI/CD best practices and helps to guide improvements to them that improve ways of working

Skills & Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field
• 6+ years of experience
• Google Cloud experience of 3-5 years
• Terraform infrastructure-as-code 2-3 years
• Application experience of CI/CD implementations using github actions
• Up-to-date knowledge of security practices, standards, and protocols related to API development
• Deep knowledge and use of Python including toolchains for documentation, testing, and operations/observability
• Experience with API management platforms and tools (e.g., Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Postman)
• Deep expertise in modern software development tools/ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, devops tools, metrics / monitoring, …) with a strong track record of successfully designing and developing APIs
• In-depth knowledge of API design principles, protocols, and tools (REST, GraphQL, Swagger, etc.)
• Experience architecting, building, or managing components of an metadata platform
• Experience with event-driven architectures and implementing event hooks/triggers in API systems
• Familiarity with webhooks, message queues, and pub/sub systems
• Ability to design API integrations that enable real-time data updates and notifications