API/Node.JS Developer

Title: API/Node.JS Developer
Location: Remote
Type: Contract
Duration: Long Term

Description:

• Minimum 7 years of IT experience.
• Develop, and maintain APIs to support web and mobile applications.
• Collaborate with frontend and backend developers to define API requirements.
• Ensure API security and authentication mechanisms are robust.
• Monitor API performance and troubleshoot issues promptly.
• API gateway Spring cloud api gateway deployed as a service.
• Language Java (though we don't want to code in Scala/Node. Some Scala/Node familiarity would be nice as some underlying existing services are written in Scala and Node).
• Database PostgreSql and some MongoDB.
• Knowledge of Excel macros, Kotlin, NET/C#, along with Java/Scala/Node, Elastic, Python, and some custom tooling/integration with COTS (Salesforce, Twilio, Customer.io), etc
• Monitoring tooling NewRelic, ELK, Prometheus, Logs Loggly.
• CI/CD stack Maestro, GitHub actions, GitHub packages.
• QA JUnit, automated API testing.
• Most important design first api development, swagger, codegen, mock data generation, automated test generation, docs for developer portal generation, automated dev portal documentation etc.
• Production support