API Engineer Manager

Your work profile:

As an API Engineer within the Data Foundations team, you will:

• Play a key role in delivering technology solutions that meet the needs of the business, as prioritised by the Value Stream leads
• Establish strong relationships within the scrum team, and with neighbouring squads and release trains
• Work closely with operations and business representatives to deliver mutually agreed, value-focussed solutions
• Display an understanding of the data domain and modern data lake and reporting principles and best practices
• Influence decisions and solution choices effectively, whilst recognising the strength of a diverse team and different ideas
• Improve productivity through automating routine tasks, decreasing time to deliver continuous improvement initiatives and optimising infrastructure costs through efficient database design

Key skills required:

• Expert level experience in creating well-architected applications on AWS Cloud/Kubernetes
• Multi-year experience of developing and designing cloud-native applications preferably targeted to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Expertise in designing and running applications which run on containers (Docker) and systems which are composed of such application containers
• Experience on container management products and of having run full SDLC on container-hosted applications
• Expertise and experience around microservices-based architectures
• Detailed knowledge and experience of working with modern data warehouses/data lakes
• Expertise with AI-driven development using tools like GitHub Copilot with Agents, and experience integrating AI into software solutions
• Candidate needs to have rich experience around engineering skills, CI/CD, and build/deployment automation tools
• Should have rich exposure to web, application, and messaging queuing platforms
• Should have rich knowledge of design and architecture patterns
• Should be an expert craftsman on the test-first model of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Has ability to envision design for complex functional and technical problems while incrementally evolving the implementation in simple progressive steps of deliveries
• You are adept at pair programming and can comfortably pair with other developers irrespective of maturity/experience levels. You are eager to coach/guide juniors to improve the delivery capability
• You are at ease with understanding/supporting the code base written by others and in learning/trying wider technology sets/problem-solving methods used in a project

Education:

• B. Tech / M. Tech
• B.E / M.E
• B.Sc. / M.Sc.
• B. Com / M.Com
• MBA/PGDM
• BCA/MCA
• PhD

Skills

AWS, Amazon Web Services, Java, Kubernetes, Microservices