API Engineer (Java)

Our client has a key role in British society, fostering change and leading technology innovation. From delivering the Olympics, to supporting the emergency services, to investing more into research than any other UK technology company, they take pride in everything they do - and in the people who work there.

Role Desciption
• You will be responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining Restful APIs to support our digital experiences.
• You will contribute to transforming our clients working culture and digital presence using agile ways of working

What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities
• Design and develop APIs to support digital experiences using open source and cloud technology.
• Work as part of an agile team to turn complex business needs into elegant solutions.
• Collaborate with architects, designers, analysts, product specialists, and other software engineers.
• Conduct design reviews to ensure solutions fit our architecture, security, scalability and maintainability guidelines.
• Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and improving performance.
• Provide engineering leadership and contribute to our engineering community and standards.
• Provide assistance to QA and support colleagues as needed to resolve problems.

Key Skills
• experience using TDD in Java.
• experience with microservices architecture.
• experience building RESTful web services.
• Experience using agile methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment Strategies.
• Knowledge of web security, application security, web services security, common vulnerability remediation, certificate management.
• Strong background with automated testing.