Lead Software Engineer at Hunter Gibbons

Job Duties:

• In order to support a platform that can be integrated with state systems that differ by state, we have built and maintain an API. As our Integration Engineer, you will:
• Own the technical design of our API
• Some of the next projects coming up on our API are implementing API versioning and error handling
• A longer-term investigation is to consider GraphQL either alongside our JSON endpoints or as a backing store
• Build additional API functionality
• Build open-source integrations to demonstrate potential usage of our API
• As a part of our agency launch process, we do a one-time data import of an agency's prior data. You will:
• Own the technical design of our data import process
• Run data imports
• Build additional import functionality
• In order to support our agencies' workflows, understand their needs, and assist in any integration needs you may:
• Answer questions from internal and external stakeholders as to system functionality
• Write documentation like API documentation and DDLs to assist agency technical counterparts to write their own integrations
• Write data-cleaning algorithms and validations to ensure reliable data and enable the ability to monitor child welfare outcomes

Requirements

• 5+years of professional experience with 2+ years specifically working with data systems/integrations/APIs
• Communication skills - Ability to comfortably explain complex technical processes to contacts in varying roles and technical aptitude internally and with agency staff
• Strong ability to understand data architecture and ask questions of agencies to get to the data/architecture API design
• Attention to detail
• Having a strong security awareness and mindset
• Having a growth mindset, having a sense of urgency, and being comfortable with challenging the status quo
• Project management/organization