Senior Software Engineer (Apigee)

Join SADA as a Senior Software Engineer - Backend!

Your Mission 

You will be responsible for building cloud-native applications across a breadth of use cases in order to enable end users to work more effectively. We develop our applications utilizing a UX-driven approach in order to solve priority business objectives, focusing on efficiency, performance, and ease-of-use. 

As a member of the Application Development team focused on backend development, you would primarily be developing: APIs for web and mobile, edge computing applications, and orchestration for deployments/pipelines. We are a premier partner of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), as such our implementations focus on enabling customers to better utilize GCP or to demonstrate its capabilities. 

Because SADA is a services-focused company, you will have the opportunity to support customers spanning every industry--including gaming, logistics, and hospitality--each with different use cases and objectives. You will obtain a breadth of skills and experience unparalleled at other companies.

Your day-to-day will consist of the following activities:

• Work on projects with applications in various stages of development, ranging from discovery and architecture processes, soup-to-nuts development of an application, or consulting on individual features for our customers.

• Manage time working across 1 to 3 projects simultaneously, with 2-6 engineers staffed as part of a single team for each project

• Communicate with internal and customer engineers to gain consensus on API specifications and architectures.
• Collaborate with solution architects, product managers, and UX/UI designers to define the requirements for high-quality user experiences.
• Develop repeatable processes, solutions, or products that enable SADA and its customers to work more efficiently.

Pathway to Success 

#MakeThemRave is at the foundation of every project we take on. Our singular goal is to provide customers the best possible experience in building, modernizing, and maintaining applications in Google Cloud Platform. 

Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of our practice with vision and passion. You will be measured by: the breadth, magnitude, and quality of your contributions; your ability to estimate accurately; the feedback provided by customers; your collaboration with your peers; and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions.  

As you continue to execute successfully, we will build a professional development plan to support your growth across engineering, management, or other growth tracks. 

Expectations

Required Travel - Limited (<5%) travel to customer sites, conferences, or team building events. 

Customer-Facing - As often as daily interaction with customers, including standups or sales meetings; at other times, weekly/bi-weekly as for sprint planning, reviews/retrospectives, or demos. These interactions will be with roles ranging from engineers to key executive stakeholders.

Onboarding/Training - The first several weeks of onboarding are dedicated to learning and will encompass learning materials/assignments and compliance training, as well as meetings with relevant individuals. Details of the timeline are shared closer to the start date. 

Job Requirements

Required Credentials:

• 4 years of relevant work experience in software development
• Apigee and API and proxy development experience

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following languages: Java, Go, Python, Node.js.
• Experience with API management, in particular Apigee, including deployment, configuration, migration, and developing API strategies
• Experience on Apigee Edge/Apigee X Platform, including an understanding of configurations around Target, Environment, Developer App and Developer Product from AppDev perspective 
• Experience in Generating and Developing Proxies.
• Prior experience designing, building, and maintaining high-quality, developer-friendly REST APIs.
• Experience in API layer security refinement including custom analytics, throttling, caching, logging, and monetization.
• Exposure to full stack development, from setting up application and database server infrastructure to developing and implementing application code.
• Ability to architect, scope, and prioritize work based on feedback from the customer or internal teams.
• Experience in writing automated tests, including unit, integration, and acceptance tests.
• Experience working within a DevOps framework, including automation through CI/CD pipelines.

Useful Qualifications:

• Experience tuning applications for non-functional requirements, such as: usability, maintainability, scalability, availability, security, and portability.
• Experience with migrating proxies from Apigee Edge to Apigee X. 
• Experience using Google Cloud Platform, in particular serverless (Cloud Functions), containers (Cloud Run, Kubernetes), and platforms (App Engine).
• Familiarity with frontend web technologies, particularly React and Angular.
• Exposure to the Google Maps API, PostGIS, GDAL, or other Geospatial display and analytics APIs/frameworks.