Integration / API Engineer (.NET) - (12 Months Contract)

Position Summary

We are seeking an expert integration engineer to design, build and operate secure APIs and enterprise integrations, including connections to national government platforms, payment gateways and public-service systems, and to support the integration needs of AI projects. The role goes beyond building endpoints: it covers leading complex integrations from design through production and handover.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure internal and external integration patterns with documented API contracts, agreed with system owners.
• Lead technical changes for government integration platforms, payment gateways and public-service platforms.
• Build and review .NET/C# APIs and integration components, managing compatibility, payload mappings and authentication.
• Resolve complex failures: payment retries, duplicate callbacks, reconciliation, timeouts and external outages.
• Review the mid-level engineer's work, coordinate with QA and DevOps, and define integration acceptance evidence.
• Deliver source, configuration, API documentation, operating guidance and knowledge transfer.

Requirements

Essential

• Relevant bachelor's degree (CS, information systems, software engineering) or equivalent.
• Substantial production experience designing APIs and enterprise integrations, with hands-on C#/.NET.
• Strong grasp of API security, contracts/versioning, data mapping and resilient integration behavior, with the ability to justify trade-offs.
• Proven lead of a complex integration through design, testing, production and handover.
• Able to investigate failures from logs and transaction traces, review code and explain architecture to technical and business audiences.

Preferred

• Government or national-platform integrations, API-management platforms, regulated services
• Payment processing, reconciliation and monitoring
• Arabic stakeholder communication
• Connecting enterprise APIs to AI applications or automation workflows