API Platform Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead API platform modernization, upgrades, and enhancement initiatives across cloud environments.

• Design, develop, maintain, and optimize RESTful APIs and application integrations.

• Build and support serverless and containerized applications using AWS services.

• Develop and maintain data streaming pipelines using Amazon Kinesis and related AWS technologies.

• Identify, assess, prioritize, and remediate software vulnerabilities, security issues, and application defects.

• Manage GitHub repositories, branching strategies, merging, pull requests, and code reviews.

• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline.

• Support application deployment, platform maintenance, performance optimization, and production issue resolution.

• Collaborate with software development and security teams to resolve technical challenges and improve code quality.

• Apply secure coding practices and contribute to application reliability, scalability, and compliance.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing and supporting RESTful APIs in cloud-based environments.

• Strong programming experience in Python and Node.js.

• Practical experience with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.

• Experience with Amazon Kinesis for data streaming and event-driven integrations.

• Knowledge of Amazon ECS and Amazon EBS.

• Experience managing source code, branching strategies, and collaborative development workflows using GitHub.

• Hands-on experience with AWS CodePipeline and CI/CD automation.

• Experience identifying and remediating code vulnerabilities, software bugs, and application security issues.

• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

• Understanding of cloud architecture, API security, software development lifecycle, and deployment best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience modernizing enterprise API platforms and cloud-native applications.

• Familiarity with serverless architectures, containerized workloads, and event-driven systems.

• Experience with automated testing, code quality tools, and security scanning.

• Knowledge of AWS cloud security and application performance optimization.

• Experience working in collaborative Agile engineering environments.

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