Job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain APIs using best practices on AWS platforms.
- Create RESTful APIs that are scalable, secure, and efficient.
- Collaborate with external partners, product teams, and business stakeholders to gather API requirements.
- Perform unit testing and ensure high-quality API performance and functionality.
- Implement security best practices for data transfer on cloud infrastructure.
- Participate in code reviews, pair programming, and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
- Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
- Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
- Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
- Experience in AWS-based API development using Python
- Utilize AWS services like Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, and others to design and deploy API-driven solutions.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
- Experience with Typescript and ReactJS
- Optimize API deployments for cost-efficiency, scalability, and performance.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EC2, IAM, Event bridge).
- Proficient in API development (RESTful) and related tools (e.g., Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI).
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
- Exposure to cloud technologies
- Good to have Kafka Experience and Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Grafana
- Good to have Lake formation and Glue Experience
- Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes