API Developer (Hybrid) - Tandym

A top financial services company in North Carolina is currently seeking a new API Developer to join their growing team in Charlotte.

***This is a Hybrid opportunity requiring the qualified professional to work onsite a few days a week.***

Responsibilities:

The API Developer will be responsible for:

• Writing code and unit tests, automation, and conducting code reviews and testing
• Develop high-quality, reusable, and scalable code using React.js and React Native
• Identifying exciting opportunities for adopting new technologies to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
• Performing ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track concepts, and delivering continuous improvement
• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Working with Product Managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues
• Actively studying new and emerging technologies, rapidly prototype and carrying out POCs
• Identifying opportunities for adopting new technologies
• Maintaining documentation, coding standards, and style guides
• Optimizing application performance, quality, and delivery to defined organizational standards and best practices
• Serving as a mentor for junior and new engineers and peers in the software development practice to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers
• Perform other duties, as needed

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of software development experience in a professional environment
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, and/or a related field
• Proven experience developing web and mobile applications using React.js and React Native
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS
• Knowledge of modern web and mobile development trends and best practices
• Knowledgeable in modern API technologies, architecture and design practices and protocols with hands-on experience using one or more API technologies (Open API, REST, RPC, GraphQL, Micro-Services, Serverless)
• Experience in designing and building Cloud native applications
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tools such as GitLab Pipelines/Jenkins/GitHub
• Proficiency in programming languages like React, React-Native and JavaScript
• API development experience to be full stack in future using node / typescript
• Experience with Terraform, Git, and Mobile Deployment strategies
• Great interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Strong attention to detail
• Highly organized

Desired Skills:

• Experience in cloud technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform
• Working knowledge of public cloud (e.g. AWS)