Sr. Java API Developer

Job Description

Title: Sr. Java API Developer

Salary Conversion: 143k max

Location: Denver, Colorado 80202

High-level job responsibilities:

• Design and develop API specifications using OpenAPI Specifications/YAML that are scalable and provide greater security on data.
• Create build and deployment pipelines for APIs using appropriate tools to implement
• Continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Support end-end management of the APIs over its entire lifecycle

Day-to-day job responsibilities

• Work with various application teams to understand their business needs and requirements for the API implementation
• Ensure API documentation is created and remains up to date
• Ensure code and design quality with appropriate logging, monitoring, tracing, and security standards in place
• Help troubleshoot and resolve issues related to the API platform, API accessibility and API deployments
• Perform root cause analysis for Production issues and come up with solutions that will prevent them from happening in the future
• Participate and contribute in grooming technical user stories impacting integration

High-level qualifications:

• Excellent analytical, oral, written communication and presentation skills with ability to interact with global delivery technical teams.
• Experience in Agile methodologies – Kanban or SCRUM
• Experience in Deploying Microservices (spring-boot, node.js) on Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Good understanding of security protocols (e.g. OAuth, SAML)
• Governance, Event Driven Architecture, message-based architectures, and caching strategies and frameworks.

Specific qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in development, and implementation of enterprise-wide solutions based on Java Technologies (Java, J2EE, Webservices, Spring, Spring Boot)
• At least 3 years of hands on experience with design, development and implementation of Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Integration or Node.js based Microservices
• Demonstrated knowledge of test-driven development practices and experience with any of the version control tools such as GitLab, and Continuous Integrations with various CI/CD tools
• Experience with Swagger/Swagger Hub
• Experience with API Gateway & Management, e.g. Apigee
• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes
• Experience with AWS cloud products