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!