100% Remote API Developer

API Developer

Location: Winston Salem, NC, Charlotte, NC, or Radford, VA preferred
Also open to remote in EST and CST time zones
Must travel to Winston-Salem for 2-week onsite training

Purpose of the Job

The API Developer will be a key player in the modernization efforts with SOAP and REST web services. The Developer will collaborate with project team members and other Information Technology teams to provide the full API lifecycle of designing, developing, testing, deploying & releasing secure real-time/near real-time APIs using MuleSoft CloudHub API best practices. The Developer will keep security, resiliency and optimal application performance as top-of-mind for all deployments. This role will analyze the existing CloudHub implementation and provide recommendations for optimization of the environment and the enterprise application integration solutions.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

1. Assists in the creation, documentation and improvement of the enterprise integrations strategy, architecture and standards.
2. Collaborates with project teams and stakeholders to gather requirements, define scope and estimate effort for new integration projects.
3. Analyzes business processes and underlying systems to understand and document integration points.
4. Designs, builds, customizes and supports MuleSoft APIs and Integration Solutions for Enterprise Applications spanning across IT and other business areas, troubleshooting, identifying issues, performing root cause analysis, documenting, and providing the best solution to the problem.
5. Develops appropriate test scenarios and scripts as needed.
6. Ensures that security and performance best practices are followed when developing APIs.
7. Assesses the health and performance of web services, providing support activities for both production and test environments.
8. Creates and maintains documentation on integration architecture components, including data catalogs, data flow diagrams, API definitions, etc.
9. Identifies potential process improvement areas and suggests options and recommends approaches.
10. Develop and implement/release reusable components/building blocks for enabling the API led strategy.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

1. Must have extensive working technical knowledge of MuleSoft Anypoint platform to include Anypoint Runtime Manager, and Anypoint Design Center.
2. Must have hands-on experience implementing out-of-box and custom policies using API Manager and gateway products.
3. Must have hands-on experience with multiple general Mule connectors such as HTTP, Database, File, FTP, FTPS, Java, JDBC, and JSON, experience with Salesforce and Workday connectors preferred.
4. Must have strong knowledge in Web services and API technologies (REST, XML/JSON, SOAP, XSLT).
5. Must have excellent communication skills in English, both verbal and written.
6. Must be adept at reading, writing, and interpreting technical documentation and procedure manuals.
7. Must have ability to conduct research into software issues and products as required.
8. Must have proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
9. Must be able to evaluate systems and procedures, implementing efficiency enhancements.
10. Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment preferred.
11. Must have ability to understand all business processes within the credit union.
12. Must be detail oriented and well organized.
13. Must be able to work in a general office environment.
14. Must be flexible and able to shift resources and priorities as required.
15. Must be able to complete all assignments with minimal supervision.

Requirements:

1. 3+ years' MuleSoft CloudHub application/API Developer experience to include:
   1. Developing/configuring, testing and deploying/releasing MuleSoft Cloud Hub components.
   2. Configuring High Availability within the region for all MuleSoft CloudHub APIs.
2. 3+ years' experience in REST, HTTP, MQ, JSON, XML, and SOA Design.
3. Experience in designing and building API-led Connectivity in Hybrid environment (On-premises to Cloud and vice-a-versa, Cloud to Cloud, On-premise to On-premise) preferred.
4. 2 years of Java development experience preferred.

Nice to have:

1. MuleSoft Certified Developer – Level 1 and Level 2 /Integration Platform Architect preferred.