API Integration Engineer

ARENGY is a Digital and Cybersecurity Consulting Company operating in the Middle East from Dubai. Our customers are the most successful industry leaders executing projects around the globe. We are partnering with one of the leading Banking & Insurance Company in Dubai. We are looking for an API Integration Engineer.

Job Description :

The API Engineer is in charge of designing and developing APIs, documenting them, managing the lifecycle of the APIs, including their releases from none-production up to Production and Disaster Recovery environments. The API Engineer will be working on different verticals:

1. Health APIs
2. Property & Casualties (PnC) APIs (motor, home, travel, motor-fleet, business-secure, Liability)
3. Corporate APIs (payment APIs, CRM APIs)
4. Regulatory APIs and other evolutions (authorities in UAE, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar)
5. Digital APIs (web and mobile app APIs)
6. Partners Onboarding (for e-commerce PnC APIs)
7. Data APIs
8. Platform Evolutions, Monitoring, Maintenance (Jenkins, nexus, AWS, code commit, Kibana, Grafana etc)
9. Delivery Automation

Responsibilities include:

• Work with Team Lead on the planning of the development deliveries considering the development tasks, their interdependencies within and across the different components of the integration platform.
• Provide estimates for the development tasks.
• Ensure reusability of the newly developed integration codes.
• Ensure that the developments meet the Architecture and Information Security best practices.
• Train other team members based on the request from Team Lead.
• Update the status of development tasks in a timely manner.
• Use logic and technical knowledge in completing integration tasks; design API specifications, develop REST and SOAP services integrations from specifications, test the services.
• Perform the Development tasks assigned by the Team Leads.
• Compile and write documentation to describe integrations development and revisions.
• Analyze designs and tests new and/or existing systems.
• Secure Unit and Automate Testing definition and execution.
• Follow specified guidelines and system standards in writing, testing, and documenting.
• Perform research and identify integration problems; develop solutions.
• Document and promote a sustainable software development practice.
• Handle production operations such as monitoring, incident support, occasional deployments, and support out of working hours.

Profile / Requirements :

• 3 years of experience in API Development, REST APIs, SOAP Services.
• Knowledgeable in API security, API Management and API Gateway solutions (Wso2, or other such as Apigee, Axway, IBM API Connect etc).
• Has worked in AWS cloud and containerized environments.
• Preference on candidates who worked in insurance domain or with big technology/consulting companies.
• Clear Communication.
• Strong Team player.

Essential Skills (coding languages are applicable as per the work area):

• English Communication.
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework.
• Excellent knowledge of REST and SOAP, UML Design methodologies, SOA, data modeling techniques.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies (Git flow, release management, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarCube).
• Knowledge of AWS cloud (ECS, EKS, ECR, EC2).
• Knowledge of containerization/docker.
• Knowledge of API security (authentication methods, oauth2, OIDC, client and server certificates, mTLS, JWTs JWS JWE).
• Ability to analyze and solve problems; coordinate, plan and schedule; test and implement programs.
• Ability to communicate effectively with individuals from diverse socio-economic backgrounds.

Optional Skills:

• Knowledge of insurance/health, motor, travel, home, liability insurance domain.
• Knowledge on other API Integration solutions such as Apigee, Axway, IBM API Connect, etc.