API Engineer – Platform Integrations (AVM-AE-20250714)

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and Develop: Build a robust API layer that integrates with a variety of third-party and internal services.
• Routing and Orchestration: Implement request routing, fallback strategies, and dynamic service selection logic.
• Authentication Security: Develop secure authentication and authorization mechanisms (API keys, OAuth, RBAC).
• Rate Limiting and Quotas: Enforce per-client rate limits and usage quotas to control access and protect resources.
• Observability: Implement logging, tracing, and monitoring of requests and responses for analytics and debugging.
• Performance Optimization: Ensure low-latency, high-availability API endpoints, including caching strategies and load balancing.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product and engineering teams to integrate the API platform into the broader infrastructure.
• Documentation: Create clear API documentation, developer guides, and internal tooling for easier adoption.

About You:

• Experience:
• 3–6+ years developing production-grade APIs in Python (FastAPI), Node.js (Express), or Go.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining scalable API services.
• Experience working with enterprise API Gateway solutions (Kong, Mongo, MuleSoft, APISIX
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Technical Skills:
• Proficiency in RESTful API design principles.
• Strong understanding of authentication standards (OAuth 2.0, JWT).
• Experience with rate limiting, caching (Redis), and monitoring tools.
• Comfort integrating external APIs and designing clean abstraction layers.
• Mindset:
• You value clean code, clear documentation, and thoughtful testing.
• You’re comfortable working in early-stage environments and iterating quickly.
• You have strong communication skills and a collaborative approach.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working on multi-tenant platforms or large-scale API gateways.
• Familiarity with prompt management or workflow orchestration (not required).
• Exposure to observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Prometheus)