Software Engineer with strong API skills

• Remote, Contract role
• East Coast Hours

RedStream Technology is recruiting for a software engineer with strong API skills to work with our client designing, building and implementing a range of new interoperability data services.  The environments will range from on-premises to cloud environments. Besides API skills the engineer needs to have experience working in enterprise environments with Java and Golang.

Responsibilities will include creating innovative interoperability platforms, tools, and solutions to enable seamless and secure data integration. Your solutions will be used to connect legacy, newly developed, and vendor applications across the datacenter and cloud environments, and you will be responsible for the full lifecycle of the solutions:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, operate and maintain products and enterprise-level API Service Architecture
• Experience with Domain-based Microservice Architecture
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, automate manual processes, optimize service integration, and propose re-designing of infrastructure as appropriate to achieve scalability and cost reduction
• Design and develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.
• Find opportunities to embrace innovative technologies
• Focuses on cross-platform integration to use and optimize platform capabilities
• Serve as a core team member, responsible for providing solutions for large high priority cross platform initiatives.
• Drive root cause analysis and problem management process to prevent problem recurrence.
• Analyze existing operations and schedule training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements
• Keep up to date with industry trends and developments
• Build the infrastructure required for integration and deployment of API services both on-prem and cloud.
• End-End ownership of critical service – availability, latency, performance, efficiency, management, monitoring, capacity planning, performance analysis and system tuning for entire services.

Skills

• Proficient in building large-scale systems end to end using Java/Python/Golang (preferable Golang and Java) or other high-performance languages, developer tools, CI/CD, DevOps, monitoring tools and engineering cloud migration solutions
• 8-10+ years of experience in modern technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Java, Spring, Spring boot and RDBMS & No-SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, Document DB, OpenSearch) along with CICD tooling e.g., GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, etc.
• Hands on experience working with REST API design and development using Spring boot and Spring framework
• Hands on experience working with GraphQL API design and implementation
• Work with API developers across the teams to build new API features at large scale
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS and AWS CLI including K8s, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, NLB/ELB, Open Search, Document DB, EKS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience with Observability/Monitoring technologies: Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Grafana

Education: Bachelor's degree/Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline with excellent academic record