API Engineer (Kong)

Location Edinburgh
Discipline: IT
Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Gary Simpson

Contact email: gary.simpson@change-digital.co.uk
Contact phone: 0141 5668922
Job ref: 134260
Published: over 1 year ago
Expiry date: 10 Oct 2023 00:59

Are you an experienced API Engineer ?

Do you have experience with Kong API Gateway ?

Would you like to work for a fantastic company who are transforming the way they do business ?

They offer flexible hybrid working and you can be based from one of their key locations in Edinburgh, London, Bristol or Gloucester.

This is a new and exciting role, working in an agile and devops environment.  You will be responsible for crafting, developing, and refining technical components

Collaborating closely with senior engineers and other team members to ensure the smooth and efficient delivery of products.

Your experience should include :

  • Experience of writing clean and testable code.
  • Experience working with Kong API Gateway
  • Ability to translate user stories to functional applications.
  • Strong communication skills to translate technical challenges to non-technical audiences.
  • Knowledge of coding in Java11 (ideally Java17) using TDD/BDD.
  • Significant engineering experience with nof REST APIs, Graph Ql, spring Integration, Kafka or Confluent stack.
  • Experience of working on AWS Cloud, micro services using DevSecOps pipelines.
  • Knowledge of enterprise Java frameworks such as Spring (particularly SpringBoot, Spring Cloud Stream, Spring Security, Spring Data).
  • Good understanding of Functional Programming (Lambda, Streams) and of Web security.
  • Experience of working within scaled agile settings and feature teams.

The offer a highly competitive reward package.

For more information get in touch asap on 0141 5668922