API Developer

Job Title : API Developer

Location : Portsmouth, NH

Duration : Long Term Contract

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Work effectively as part of a project team alongside the Product Owner, Scrum master and other team members
• Prioritise a deep understanding of the importance and principles of engineering excellence and demonstrating this knowledge in your work
• Write clean code in line with the team's set standards. Look for ways to improve your team's coding standards.
• Own, scope and deliver well defined deliverables or stories. Communicate and update your progress regularly at stand-ups or similar agile events and ceremonies.
• Deliver and maintain software products conforming to the agreed specifications and LSM's / Enterprise quality standards & guardrails
• Support, monitor, and maintain production grade systems including utilising observability tooling and issue remediation.
• Collaborate closely and cooperatively with your technical and non-technical teams to work towards the best solution that maximises value to the customer
• Contribute to a culture of code quality and implement automated, unit and integration testing as part of the software development lifecycle. Apply good security processes such as threat modelling to the code you develop
• Grow your knowledge of architecture, modern engineering principles and design patterns
• Implement your team's approach to delivering high quality, tested code. Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines. Play a role in code reviews and actively review pull requests from other team members
• Produce software technical specifications and other documentation as required for development solutions
• Maintain good working relationships with colleagues, vendors and customers of the department

Skills and Experience:

• Experience (required)in building API products and API management e.g. Apigee.
• Including API versioning, documentation, and developer onboarding experience
• Experience (required) in AWS Serverless solution design & Event Driven integration patterns
• Experience (required) of working in the development of AWS cloud native solutions.
• Experience of working with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Git, or similar, for deployment purposes
• Experience of various database paradigms including SQL & NoSQL
• Solid understanding of security protocols and standards
• Experience (required) with backend / compute languages delivering business value such as Python & Typescript
• Experience in Automated Testing principles
• Deep understanding of the importance and principles of engineering excellence and demonstrating this knowledge in your work.
• Experience of feature or function design and delivery as part of an agile software development team (Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.).
• Experience of working with Product Owners, customers, end-users, or stakeholders in the delivery of software, solutions, or products.