Software API Integration Engineer, Burq

• Bachelor of science degree from an accredited university in Computer Science/Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience working professionally designing and developing highly scalable software systems
• 5+ years of experience in REST API design for extensibility and portability, development and, integration of data sources, other APIs, and databases
• 5+ years of experience in Javascript/Typescript
• 3+ years of experience in NodeJS
• 3+ years of experience in SQL and at least one of these relational databases: MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL
• Experience with Jira or a similar issue-tracking system
• Experience in an AGILE/SCRUM development environment
• Experience with code versioning tools like GIT and participating in code reviews
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming/promises and its application
• Strong understanding of user authentication, user authorization, and security compliance between environments, servers, and other systems using OAuth
• API Documentation automated generation and manual additions
• Writing testable, efficient, and reusable code via unit testing and end-to-end automated testing in frameworks like Jasmine, Karma, and Selenium
• An excellent ability to debug and fix issues
• Skilled in problem-solving with data structures, design patterns, and algorithms, and how they apply to the scalability of applications
• Skilled in code refactoring, best practices, design principles, and object-oriented programming
• Skilled in time management with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• An excellent communicator, flexible team player, independent thinking, strong in the documentation that has experience working with teams in different time zones
• Has humility and isn’t afraid to ask questions while understanding the criticality of releases
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced global engineering environment with continuous innovation
• A willingness to go above and beyond to solve problems and tackle dynamic challenges
• Strong customer service and client-facing skills and brings a positive attitude and energy

Desirable

• You will build a strategy for the integrations of our third party clients using the principles of scalability, quality, reusability, and security
• You will improve and refactor existing API endpoints while also building new ones
• You will improve the reliability of our API through unit testing and end-to-end testing
• You will understand and solve integration needs between numerous applications and data sources
• You will be planning the end-to-end development of our integrations ranging from high-level architecture all the way to code implementation while participating in a fast-paced global agile environment
• You will communicate with a wide array of internal and external stakeholders to understand the business goal and technical work going into the integrations
• You will have a deep understanding of feature break-downs, story pointing, and delivery of the integrations
• You will work with new technologies in order to design highly scalable software which achieves our desired functionality
• You will create documentation and be a champion of our integrations as the company is rapidly growing