Position : API Developer Python/ AWS
100% remote
Duration : 12 Months with EXT
- Must currently reside in one of the following states: AL AZ FL GA IA ID IN KS KY LA MI MO NC NV OH OK PA SC TN TX UT VA WI or WV
- As the Data Services team implements a cloudbased modern architecture to support its data ingestion and transformation processes it is also seeking to create a nextgeneration services layer to provide a platform to expose that data in a scalable secure way.
- To implement this nextgeneration services layer we are expanding our team to include an integration engineer wellversed in AWS serverless components for RESTful API development.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Your areas of expertise include implementing software engineering best practices in design development and utilization of APIs in cloud platforms.
- You must have a strong and continuously evolving technical mastery of RESTful API development focused on Python Lambda and API Gateway.
- This includes handson programming participating in design sessions code reviews and system testing during various phases of development.
- You have a passion for handson coding putting quality first delivering an exceptional experience to customers and driving efficiency through the creation of extendable and reusable service components.
- As a key member of our team you will focus on providing viable recommendations for new solutions and refining processes to ensure application development and security standards are met.
- Exercising leadership to enable the team to analyze issues and implement solutions is a main component of your role.
- As subject matter expert for our team you will be the first point of contact for application product owners integrating with our data assets and will partner with various business IT and external teams on a variety of inquiries.
- You will collaborate with management to ensure security compliance during periodic external and internal audit processes.
Qualifications Required:
- 8 years of software development experience
- 5 years of expertlevel experience in Python
- 5 years of experience with AWS services
- Proficient experience with RESTful web services AWS Lambda and API Gateway
- Knowledge in API security frameworks token management and user access control including AWS Cognito/Azure OAuth JWT OpenAPI etc.
- Proficient in querying a variety of data sources including APIs RDBMSs document stores etc.
Preferred:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Information Systems Management Information Systems or related field
- AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect (Associate) Developer (Associate)
- Experience in CI/CD framework to create/modify CI pipelines using GIT (Bitbucket preferred)
- Experience working on eventbased services like SQS SNS for data integration patterns with applications