API Developer

Salary: £84,000 – £102,000 per year

API Developer – Engineer

UK Based REMOTE

£84,000 – £102,000 plus extensive benefits package

Position summary:

Our client is looking for an API Developer with some knowledge of DevOps methods to join their innovative UK Advanced Analytics team. You will be tasked with creating and managing Big Data infrastructure and tools, typically designing and building big data pipelines, platforms and microservices paradigm to software development.

Job role and responsibilities:

Our client has an exciting opening for an API Developer to work on the collecting, storing, processing, and analysing of huge sets of data. The primary focus will be on choosing optimal solutions to use for these purposes, then maintaining, implementing, and monitoring them.

Additional responsibilities for this role include:

· Integrating solutions with the architecture used across the business

· Building ETL/ELT best practices in a big data environment, featuring big data pipelines, real time streaming using Kafka and leveraging high levels of proficiency across distributed computing principles

· Selecting and integrating any Big Data tools and frameworks required to provide requested capabilities, working closely with Cloud big data architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP) and be an SME in relation to knowledge of big data tools/platforms, data management tools and necessary infrastructure changes

· DevOps processes, implementing CI/CD pipelines and developing and managing scalable fault tolerant APIs

About You

will be an experienced API Developer or Engineer, who can demonstrate a track record in building scalable big data solutions with a view to act as a trusted technology advisor. You will have with core knowledge across a variety of tools and platforms in big data landscape, including appreciation of data management / governance and security.

Necessary skills for this role include:

· Strong data engineering skills on a cloud Platform is essential (Azure/AWS/GCP). Other cloud platforms are desirable but not essential

· Python, Spark for data pipelines

· Streaming frameworks like Kafka

· Experience in building microservices applications and event driven architecture

· Programming skills in Java / GO / Python

· API implementation and management skills using cloud native tools or WS02, Apigee

· Experience with front end technologies like Angular, React

· Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD and Observability like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana

· Attitude to be excited with new technology experimentation in a lab style setup

· Comfortable in a working from home environment

Desirable skills for this role include:

· Understanding of technologies like Elasticsearch, Airflow, Apache Nifi, Apache Beam, Storm

· Familiarity with service mesh patterns

· Experience of visualisation tools

· Experience with noSQL database technologies like MongoDB, Cassandra, neo4j etc

If you have strong mandatory skills, our client will support training and certification on other cloud platforms and technologies using their partnerships with technology providers.

Benefits:

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Competitive salary:

Access to an annual bonus plan and share scheme making you a member not just an employee.

Private medical and dental insurance

Flexible retirement options,

Childcare vouchers

Cycle to work scheme.

Diversity is actively encouraged, and inclusivity is a top priority, with support networks for Parents, Women, LGBT+, BAME, Neurodiversity and Disability.