API Gateway Specialist
At GFT we have an extensive experience on Open API governance, conducted by a Global Open API Practice. This practice is responsible for support, align and develop common assets at a global level. We have an open position for an API Gateway specialist, a senior engineer with seasoned experience on solving cross-cutting-concerns at large organisations. We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic person willing to grow in a multi-cultural, motivating and challenging environment.
Your main responsibilities will be:
- Act as an API Governance Expert
- Manage Apigee, API Connect or other API Gateways in order to provide for our APIs providers some security, rate limiting, quotas, analytics...
- Implement approaches as declarative programming (everithing as code), software to process and reporting engagement, query language APIs (GraphQL), and modern arhitectural patterns like CQRS / ES.
- Data architecture, API design, AsyncAPIs and implementation.
- Solution design and technology stack selection.
- Solution development and technical team supervision.
- Analyze and document the enterprise and technology environment.
- Software architecture design and guidance.
- Enterprise architecture and integration patterns.
Skills will help you succeed:
- Computer Science diploma, 10+ years of relevant work experience.
- Experience designing and building business/technical services using API Gateways and supporting them in production environments.
- Experience designing relational data models, building microservices and dealing with sync/async integration technologies.
- Deep understanding of modern software development lifecycles, versioning, and deployment.
- REST design principles, GraphQL design principles and cross-cutting-concerns patterns.
- Fluency in English (at least B2 level)
Soft Skills:
- Team worker: ability to work with teams distributed geographically in different locations
- Proactive, motivated and willing to consolidate and develop a professional career
- Advisory and consultancy skills.
- Analytical, logical and critical thinking.
- Solid problem-solving skills: ability to identify problems and suggest mitigating and contingency actions
- Ability to deal with ambiguous situations
- Committed and positive.
Our offer:
- Competitive salary
- Restaurant tickets and life insurance for every employee
- The possibility of Working from Home
- Flexible compensation plan, according to your needs
- Customized plan for professional development and training program
- Technical certifications
- Subsidized English / German / Spanish courses
- Flexible working hours and short Fridays
- Program to improve and promote a healthy lifestyle at work: a sports program and fresh fruit in the offices
- International work culture
- Discount with Andjoy (called before Gym for Less)
Join our Global Team!