API PLATFORM ENGINEER

Key Responsibilities

• Lead API platform modernization, upgrades, and enhancement initiatives across cloud environments.
• Design, develop, maintain, and optimize RESTful APIs and application integrations.
• Build and support serverless and containerized applications using AWS services.
• Develop and maintain data streaming pipelines using Amazon Kinesis and related AWS technologies.
• Identify, assess, prioritize, and remediate software vulnerabilities, security issues, and application defects.
• Manage GitHub repositories, branching strategies, merging, pull requests, and code reviews.
• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline.
• Support application deployment, platform maintenance, performance optimization, and production issue resolution.
• Collaborate with software development and security teams to resolve technical challenges and improve code quality.
• Apply secure coding practices and contribute to application reliability, scalability, and compliance.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing and supporting RESTful APIs in cloud-based environments.
• Strong programming experience in Python and Node.js.
• Practical experience with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
• Experience with Amazon Kinesis for data streaming and event-driven integrations.
• Knowledge of Amazon ECS and Amazon EBS.
• Experience managing source code, branching strategies, and collaborative development workflows using GitHub.
• Hands-on experience with AWS CodePipeline and CI/CD automation.
• Experience identifying and remediating code vulnerabilities, software bugs, and application security issues.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of cloud architecture, API security, software development lifecycle, and deployment best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience modernizing enterprise API platforms and cloud-native applications.
• Familiarity with serverless architectures, containerized workloads, and event-driven systems.
• Experience with automated testing, code quality tools, and security scanning.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud security and application performance optimization.
• Experience working in collaborative Agile engineering environments.