Web API Developer


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12th June 2018

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Cambridge

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£350 - £400

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Role - Web API Developer

Location - Cambridge

Length of Contract - 3 Months + extensions

Start - ASAP

My client architects the pervasive intelligence that is transforming our daily experience. Our chips and device architectures orchestrate the performance of the technology that makes modern life possible. For the past 25 years, they have been at the forefront of innovation in collaboration with their partners and customers bringing ground-breaking technology to market. Chips produced by this client are integrated into millions of devices annually.

Do you have a passion building highly performant, flexible and reusable web applications and understand the value of exposing `everything` as APIs? Would you like to help us enrich our APIs, de-couple components while enabling integration across applications? Do you think about the users and consumers, over the technology and features?

I am looking for talented and creative web technologists to support developing new customer-facing line-of-business web applications backed by web APIs in Mulesoft. As a web API developer you would be joining a technical team and would focus on the implementation of web APIs, but you may also work on other parts of the stack, including front-end and back-end, so pragmatism and flexibility are important. We are seeking talented engineers with:

* Demonstrable experience writing and maintaining RESTful APIs. Experience with other standards is desireable

* Experience with Mulesoft or other API management platforms

* An ability to develop both the front end and back end services. Experience with modern web development frameworks. ReactJS is desireable

* Experienced working in small high-performing, self-starting team aligned to non-technical product owners

Responsibilities:

* You will be implementing and supporting highly scalable web APIs and assisting others in consuming these on front-end and back-end systems

* You will contribute to defining and setting optimal standards and patterns

* You will help define and / or interpret requirements and implement them as technical solutions

* You will influencing the design of technical features as performant microservices

* Understand and articulate the team`s point of view in broader context

Technical Expertise:

* Back end application and API development experience ideally in Java / SpringBoot / Mulesoft

* Good understanding of APIs, how to effective build and run

* Understand of factors that could influencing performance of application and microservices

* You build tested code, which operates within our CI/CD pipeline (Git / GitFlow, Jenkins, Selenium)

* Good knowledge of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and principles of responsive design

* Experience with front-End frameworks and how to use them

* Experience with cache technology (Memcached, Redis)

* Solid understanding of coding standards and guidelines for various languages and a desire to craft beautiful code

* Able to independently translate designs (e.g. wireframes, mockups, and requirements documents) to engineering teams

* Understands key principles of design thinking, what it is and why it is important, and how technology can be used in the process to explore possibilities. Explores all ideas, regardless of their source

* Translates user-centered design requirements into technical implementations for projects

If the above sounds like the ideal position for you then please apply today and I will look to contact you as soon as possible to progress your application.

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