Lead API/ Integration Engineer

We have a position for a Lead API Engineer with one of our clients in Alpharetta, GA for an initial contract duration of 11 months. No third party candidates considered for this position.

• Identify and design API layer for service registry, management, throttling, routing etc.
• Design security and authentication features in compliance with company policies
• Design system with the right mix of Monitoring, Alerting and Tracing
• Define Templates for Development Teams and perform regular code reviews to ensure best practices are followed.
• Design Integration layer using a combination of approaches (services, messaging etc.) to support downstream data flow and also work in concert with existing systems.
• Develop services using technologies like but not limited to Spring Boot & Node
• Define strategy for Test Driven Development to ensure requirements coverage.
• Prepare documentation where necessary, including training, process flows, system structure, etc.

Mandatory Skills:

• API Architecture Understanding: Familiarity with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, SOAP, and other API types.
• OAS (OpenAPI Specification) Expertise: Ability to read, write, and evaluate API specifications.
• Knowledge of Protocols: Understanding of HTTP, HTTPS, and possibly other communication protocols.
• Data Modeling: Proficiency in understanding and evaluating data schemas, like JSON Schema, YAML or SOAP/XML Schema.
• Event-Driven Architecture: Understand message queues, event streams, and other
• Security Protocols: Understanding of OAuth, JWT, API keys, and other authentication and authorization mechanisms.
• Rate Limiting and Throttling: Knowledge of how these policies affect API usage and performance.
• Development Tools: Familiarity with tools like VSCode, Spectral, Stoplight Studio, or other IDEs and API documentation and testing tools.
• Significant understanding of Microservice patterns & concepts & their application to application design and business solutions

Required Skills

API, Microservices, Spring Boot

Preferred Skills

Node, Cloud Native