Job Description

We are looking for a talented, self-motivated software engineer to join our API team. The team build APIs to enable the organisation to be more agile, and we help other teams build high-quality APIs.

Your responsibilities

  • Work closely with the API Tech Lead to help build beautiful APIs
  • Solution architecture with core enterprise systems
  • Build APIs using our API Gateway
  • Help encourage and advocate the API community at M&S, assist with the dev portal, developer workshops and SDK libraries
  • Pair with colleagues, and mentor more junior colleagues in your team
  • Ensure that high-quality software practices are adopted and encourage a team attitude of continual improvement

About you

Essential:

  • You are highly experienced and enjoy building web APIs that are intuitive, secure and efficient
  • You have outstanding engineering talent proven by: great work results in complex environments, projects outside work, or excellent academic results. Your colleagues or friends come to you for the best advice
  • You are an experienced practitioner in TDD, Continual Integration and Continual Deployment
  • You are a programmer because you love programming and you promote good software engineering practices
  • You have an agile mindset and embrace change
  • You take ownership of impediments and strive for continual improvement
  • You enjoy tackling hard problems, and like to complete tasks precisely and accurately
  • You have an excellent command of written and spoken English and are good at communicating both within and outside the team
  • You are experienced with cloud infrastructures

Highly desirable:

  • You have experience of building and configuring APIs in an API Gateway such as Apigee
  • You have exposure to different technical stacks or programming languages, an MQ technology and Mule ESB
  • You are experienced with GIT or another DVCS

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