API Engineering Lead

Who we are:

Competing in a data-driven world, most businesses struggle to capture real value from data and analytics. Data management constraints cause mid-size and large companies to miss key opportunities in the value chain. Companies are left vulnerable to underwhelming performance and encroachment by competitors.

A4 Systems is a world-class team of cyber physical system product developers, transforming quality data into primary competitive advantage. A trusted partner to industries like manufacturing, agriculture, and energy, A4 builds mission-critical SaaS products for customers to achieve breakthrough performance.

What you'll be doing:

• Apply best practices in functional areas related to Implementation and Operations Management
• Maintain ownership of tasks and/or project workstreams while providing instructional guidance to more junior professionals
• Provide expertise on engagements related but not limited to Operations & Maintenance, Helpdesk Operations, Software and Application Development and Maintenance
• Perform analysis to diagnose client issues
• Execute a portion of the project scope, and provide strong subject matter expertise to the tasks or workstreams you support
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the client environment and overall project scope
• Develop and deploy API solutions using modern DevOps practices and security standards
• Develop the test automation solutions for API testing
• Develop best in class design and architecture blueprints based on evaluation of technical and functional requirements
• Evaluate and select tools & technologies
• Establish standards and maintain a department-wide body of knowledge on API engineering
• Design, develop, implement, oversee, and adapt APIs
• Create any number of individual applications and products
• Work to make cloud data transfers and tasks more efficient by overseeing the data warehouse as well as ensuring that background tasks perform as expected.

Who you are:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, engineering, or equivalent
• Problem solving and troubleshooting skills with experience exercising mature judgment
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Able to direct multiple team members towards deliverable and milestone objectives with confidence
• Experience with API Gateway
• Restful APIs Development in a DevOps environment
• Java, JavaScript, and Node.js
• Extensive experience with UML, GraphQL
• API security engineering
• experience using Cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Platform or similar
• SQL & NoSQL databases
• CI/CD orchestration tools such as Git
• Source code management systems such as Git or similar
• An energetic teammate that works to create a positive work environment