The Fountain Group · 1 month ago
API Development Lead/Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$90/hr - $100/hr
10+ years expThe Fountain Group is a nationwide staffing firm known for its excellence and strong client relationships. They are seeking an API Development Lead/Architect to develop integration solutions, create interoperability platforms, and manage the full lifecycle of API services. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise-level API service architecture while optimizing service integration and ensuring system performance.
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Responsibilities
Design, develop, test, operate and maintain products and enterprise-level API Service Architecture
Experience with Domain-based Microservice Architecture
Identify, design and implement internal process improvements, automate manual processes, optimize service integration, and propose re-designing of infrastructure as appropriate to achieve scalability and cost reduction
Design and develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance
Find opportunities to embrace innovative technologies
Focuses on cross-platform integration to use and optimize platform capabilities
Serve as a core team member, responsible for providing solutions for large high priority cross platform initiatives
Drive root cause analysis and problem management process to prevent problem recurrence
Analyze existing operations and schedule training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements
Keep up to date with industry trends and developments
Build the infrastructure required for integration and deployment of API services both on-prem and cloud
End-End ownership of critical service – availability, latency, performance, efficiency, management, monitoring, capacity planning, performance analysis and system tuning for entire services
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in quantitative field like Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or related field required
Proficient in building large-scale systems end to end using Java/Python/Golang or other high-performance languages, developer tools, CI/CD, DevOps, monitoring tools and engineering cloud migration solutions
Hands on experience working with API Architecture and Solution Design - REST/GraphQL/gRPC and API Development using Spring boot and Spring framework, RDBMS & No-SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, Elastic Search)
10+ years of experience in technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, DevOPs, Observability, Site Reliability Engineering (Eg: Tools like ArgoCD, jFrog, Git, Git Workflows)
Work with API developers across the teams to build new API features at large scale
Expertise in AWS Cloud - AWS CLI, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, NLB/ELB, Elastic Search, Document DB, EKS, Cloud Networking and Security
Experience with IAAC - Terraform/CloudFormation
Experience with Observability/Monitoring technologies: Splunk, Cloud watch, Dynatrace
Experience with AI Agents build and enhance API Engineering experience, exposure to recent tech AI trends
Preferred
Advanced degree is a strong plus
Benefits
Health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance
Company
The Fountain Group
The Fountain Group is a staffing firm that specializes in rendering contingent workforce solutions to various industries.
501-1000 employees
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