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API Engineer (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking an API Engineer for our client in Chandler, Arizona. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Description:

  • Contract to hire.

Job Description:

  • Client seeks a Software Engineer to join our Payments Platform team. The Software Engineer works closely with the remote development team, product management and customer support.As an Engineer working on Payments Platform you will build and expand APIs and services and work with our partners to implement new payment methods, and capabilities. You’ll get to work with other engineers to build delightful features that span various parts of the system, as well as our product, integrations and operations teams to understand and solve our users’ pain points. We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; you have exquisite attention to detail; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems.
  • Work closely with our product management team, and tech support team, in the development and support of our cloudbased products.
  • Use modern infrastructure tools and platforms in collaboration with our quality assurance team to leverage our automated test systems.
  • Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with
  • production systems
  • Take a long-term strategic approach to development taking into account the product roadmap.
  • Own the entire lifecycle of our next big feature, from design through implementation to launch; take ownership and gain mastery of the product to create highly functioning code.
  • Implement and automate security controls, governance processes & compliance validation.

Required Skills:

  • At least Ten (10) years of experience in web-based software development/software engineering.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to speak and write clearly and accurately, particularly as it relates to technical concepts.
  • Experience with Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL or other relational and NoSQL databases, Hibernate, Maven
  • Knowledge of network protocols, processes & threads and powershell scripting.
  • Ability to read and optimize code for efficiency and to minimize defect density.
  • Strong technical aptitude and desire for continuous learning and improvement.
  • Experience developing multiple technology platforms/solutions.
  • Strong under-standing of multi-tenant software as a service architecture.

Desired Skills:

  • Experience implementing modern micro-services architectures.
  • Experience with cloud (AWS) technologies would be plus.
  • Payments industry experience.
  • Experience working with an off-shore engineering team.
  • Expertise in Agile methods, software development lifecycle management, continuous integration, and build and release management.

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