What are the responsibilities and job description for the API Developer position at VDart Inc?
API Engineer
Phoenix, AZ
Contract
- API Gateway Management: Designing, implementation, and optimization of API gateways using Envoy Proxy and HAProxy, ensuring high availability and performance
- Sidecar Proxy Development: Oversee the development and maintenance of an in-house sidecar proxy, ensuring seamless integration with existing & new services
- API Monitoring and Security: Implement API monitoring solutions and security tools to ensure the integrity and security of APIs, adhering to best practices in API security.
- 10 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on API gateways and microservices architecture preferably built on a JVM systems.
- Strong in coding on Java, Javascript, REST, OpenAPI, gRPC
- Proven experience with Envoy Proxy, HAProxy
- Has background in cloud native technologies & building with cloud infrastructure
- Good to have skills / Familiarity with CICD, Networking (DNS, TCP, TLS, HTTP 2), Kubernetes, Istio
- Help pivot toward serverless, modern APIs & Organizational design patterns
- the above is API Lead Engineer
