Key Responsibilities

• Leading API development, enhancing and optimizing our current API solution, and leading the development direction of the API solution going forward.
• Working on API integrations with external parties and ensuring the process for integrating is streamlined.
• Document technical procedures and create integration and user guides, maintaining accurate records of API configurations and changes.
• Working with external partners to communicate and troubleshoot API related matters
• Troubleshoot and resolve network and system issues, providing timely and effective solutions to minimize downtime.
• Participate in the deployment and integration of new technologies and updates into the existing infrastructure outside of API duties.

Requirements

Strong API development knowledge

• NodeJS, TypeScript, NestJS, React
• Building RESTful APIs with NestJS
• Developing microservices and serverless functions with Node.js
• Building single-page applications with React
• Tooling such as MongoDB and Swagger
• Experience with MongoDB Atlas for cloud-hosted databases
• Proficient in using Swagger for API documentation and testing  
• Backend services (To build the API)
• Proficient in Express.js, NestJS, or other Node.js frameworks for building APIs
• Experience with data access layers (ORMs like Mongoose, TypeORM) and data validation libraries
• Front end (To consume the API)
• Strong knowledge of React and React Hooks for building user interfaces
• Familiarity with state management libraries like Redux or React Context API
• Experience with making API calls using HTTP clients
• Database (For storing the API data)
• Proficient in working with MongoDB for storing and retrieving API data
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server
• Knowledge of data modeling, schema design, and database management best practices
• Cloud knowledge (To host the API)
• Deploying and managing APIs on cloud platforms mostly GCP
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Authentication and Security (OAuth, JWT)
• Implementing OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect for secure authentication
• Utilizing JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for stateless authentication and authorization
• Caching Techniques, Performance optimization
• Implementing caching strategies like client-side caching, and server-side caching (Redis)
• Optimizing API performance through techniques like pagination, data compression, and load balancing
• Monitoring and Alerting
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or cloud-native monitoring services
• Setting up alerting and incident response processes for API health and performance issues
• API Gateway and Active Directory management
• Configuring and managing API Gateways like AWS API Gateway or Azure API Management
• Integrating with Active Directory or other identity management systems for user authentication and authorization
• Release management
• Implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Familiarity with release management tools like GitLab pipelines, GitHub Actions, or cloud-native CI/CD services

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Linux systems, including filesystem, networking, kernel tuning, iptables, patching.
• Network management and troubleshooting experience
• Experience with Docker, Ansible, and Terraform
• Understanding of Blockchain concepts and Blockchain Infrastructure (Validators and RPC Nodes in particular)