Apigee Engineer with API - FTE opportunity in Atlanta, Chicago, New York

Capgemini • Atlanta, GA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The API Engineer will provide architectural guidance for API & Application development across teams, helping teams understand how to leverage the API Gateway to their benefit and promote best practices for Microservice/SOA application development. The API Engagement Engineer lives and breathes REST best practices and serves as the source of knowledge for RESTful API development. Additionally, the API Engagement Engineer will be responsible for learning domains and assisting teams to promote their APIs to the level of Enterprise & Productize APIs for wide market consumption. The ideal candidate may be an API developer or architect looking to expand their responsibilities to leading technologists. API engineers must possess strong oral and written communication skills because they collaborate and consult with other engineers as well as organizational experts in various fields that are part of the organization.

Day to day responsibilities : The API Engineer will work with Application & Service development teams across the organization, managing multiple teams actively working at once. The Engagement Engineer will help provide best practices for REST API development, and provide solutions for highly complex multi-service application implementations.

Requirements

• Capable of working in Java Spring and NodeJS
• API Specification Design in JSON and YAML
• API development in an enterprise setting
• Strong attention to detail and a keen eye for aesthetics
• The API Engagement Engineer must have excellent communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders
• A technical background is a must with REST API development experience a requirement
• Working knowledge of API Gateways and their role in the enterprise
• Architectural knowledge of application development in a MicroserviceEDA environment
• DevOps Process Fundamentals
• Advocate for technology best practices

Responsibilities

• provide architectural guidance for API & Application development across teams
• helping teams understand how to leverage the API Gateway to their benefit
• promote best practices for Microservice/SOA application development
• responsible for learning domains and assisting teams to promote their APIs to the level of Enterprise & Productize APIs for wide market consumption
• managing multiple teams actively working at once
• provide best practices for REST API development
• provide solutions for highly complex multi-service application implementations

Benefits

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed