API Developer (Hybrid)

A top financial services company in North Carolina is currently seeking a new API Developer to join their growing team in Charlotte.

***This is a Hybrid opportunity requiring the qualified professional to work onsite a few days a week.***

Responsibilities:

The API Developer will be responsible for:

• Writing code and unit tests, automation, and conducting code reviews and testing


• Develop high-quality, reusable, and scalable code using React.js and React Native


• Identifying exciting opportunities for adopting new technologies to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges


• Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement


• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments


• Working with Product Managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues


• Actively studying new and emerging technologies, rapidly prototype and carrying out POCs


• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies


• Maintaining documentation, coding standards, and style guides


• Optimizing application performance, quality, and delivery to defined organizational standards and best practices


• Serving as a mentor for junior and new engineers and peers in the software development practice to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers


• Perform other duties, as needed

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of software development experience in a professional environment


• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, and/or a related field


• Proven experience developing web and mobile applications using React.js and React Native


• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS


• Knowledge of modern web and mobile development trends and best practices


• Knowledgeable in modern API technologies, architecture and design practices and protocols with hands-on experience using one or more API technologies (Open API, REST, RPC, GraphQL, Micro-Services, Serverless)


• Experience in designing and building Cloud native applications


• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tools such as GitLab Pipelines/Jenkins/GitHub


• Proficiency in programming languages like React, React-Native and JavaScript


• API development experience to be full stack in future using node / typescript


• Experience with Terraform, Git, and Mobile Deployment strategies


• Great interpersonal skills


• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)


• Strong attention to detail


• Highly organized

Desired Skills:

• Experience in cloud technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform


• Working knowledge of public cloud (e.g. AWS)