Assignment Description:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer -API Development to join our dynamic team.
What you will work on:
- Design, implement, and manage APIs using Azure API Management, including policies, transformations, versioning, and security
- Develop and document APIs following OpenAPI Specification and RESTful best practices, including resource modeling, error handling, and pagination
- Work with GraphQL APIs and contribute to designing flexible, efficient query solutions
- Use Postman for API development, collection creation, test automation, and mocking to support contract-first development
- Perform unit testing and integration testing of APIs to ensure quality and reliability
- Integrate Apache Kafka into microservices and APIs, managing topics, producers, consumers, and event schema design
- Support event-driven architecture and real-time data pipelines to enable scalable solutions
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or equivalent tools to automate API deployment across APIM, Function Apps, Containers, or Kubernetes
- Contribute to security by applying OAuth2.0, OpenID Connect, and JWT, and enforce API Gateway security policies such as rate limiting, throttling, and IP restrictions
- Monitor and optimize performance through Splunk and APIM analytics, ensuring system reliability and observability
- Manage API routing, caching, and DDoS protection using Cloudflare, and ensure correct setup of DNS, SSL/TLS, and traffic management
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deliver high-quality, reusable, and well-documented APIs
- Optionally contribute to semantic and knowledge graph integration, using RDF, SPARQL, and OWL where relevant
What you bring:
- Strong expertise in Azure API Management, including policies, transformations, security, and versioning
- Proficiency in RESTful API design and documentation, with knowledge of GraphQL
- Experience using Postman for development, testing, and API mocking, with a contract-first approach
- Hands-on experience with unit testing and integration testing of APIs
- Solid knowledge of Apache Kafka, event-driven architecture, and streaming API integration
- Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitHub Actions, with experience automating deployments for APIM, Function Apps, Containers, or Kubernetes
- Understanding of OAuth2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, and API Gateway security practices
- Familiarity with performance monitoring and logging using Splunk or APIM analytics
- Knowledge of Cloudflare, DNS, SSL/TLS, and API traffic management
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills with a focus on clean, reusable, and well-documented code
- Clear communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams
- Experience mentoring junior developers is an advantage
- Familiarity with semantic data modeling, RDF, SPARQL, OWL, and APIs for knowledge graphs is a plus
If this sounds interesting, please send your CV to cv@veritaz.se
