Job Description
Insight Global is looking for an API Engineer engineer to support a fortune 4 companies API Platforms within the digital platform support group. The engineer in this role will build APIs for mission critical applications (both customer facing and internal facing). They will also build platform components which will enable self-service capabilities for other engineering teams within the digital organization. They will be developing APIs from beginning to end and coaching different groups on building APIs. This individual must come from the platform side (enhancing the platform). Lots of APIs are proxys, so they will be setting up clusters and integrating Apigee edge with Jenkins pipeline in order to make changes to the products. This individual will build APIs for mission critical applications (both customer facing and internal facing).
* Works with a cross-functional team, uses agile practices, writes, debugs, and delivers code
* Develop API proxies following API standards that connects to backend services using API management platform like Apigee/Mulesoft/Axway/Vordel for a seamless data exchange.
* Develop Open API Specification documentation which holds the contract between the teams for end-to-end development cycle.
* Working with Business Units in supporting their engineers and migrating the APIs from one gateway to the other. For eg, Vordel/Axway/Mulesoft to Apigee platform and/or vice versa.
* Developing Shared flows to implement security, traffic control, logging, and error handling as part of common code and call it as part of proxy flows.
* Deliver FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs to Healthcare teams following FHIR standards, a closed ecosystem of proprietary software, notably electronic health record systems
* Onboarding the clients consuming the APIs on Developer portal and promote the re-usability of APIs without rebuilding them.
* Work on proof of concepts and implementation for automation tools that help teams in the development cycle like automate testing for Business use cases, develop API proxies and shared flows which helps speed up the work
* Actively participates discussions with stakeholders from User Experience, Architecture, and Operations
* Identifies and fixes more complex problems in code
* Produces solid, thoroughly tested features
Required Skills & Experience
* 2+ years of overall IT experience.
* 1+ years of experience in building APIs on Apigee or Axway or APIc or Mulesoft API gateways.
* 1+ years of experience in implementing CI/CD for API Gateways and maintaining "configuration as code".
* 1+ years of experience in implementing automation testing for APIs.
* Strong understanding of Proxies, shared flows, flow hooks and utilizing caches, policies, security
* Diverse Background
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
1+ years of experience on Apigee Edge or Apigee OPDK (Proxies, shared flows, flow hooks and utilizing caches)
* Experience in either SAFe agile or Scrum or Kanban model.
* Strong fundamentals in security -- authentication, authorization.
* Strong programming skills in Java, Typescript and JavaScript.
* Experience in implementing automation testing for APIs.
* Strong fundamentals in security -- authentication, authorization.
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.