Job Description
Lead the design, development, and maintenance of highly scalable, reliable, and secure APIs for our crypto payment platform, ensuring seamless integration with core systems and third-party services. This role will focus on building robust, high-performance APIs that support real-time transaction processing, user authentication, and data exchange while adhering to strict security and compliance standards. The Lead Engineer will also drive the evolution of API architecture to align with the platform's growth and innovation goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and business development, to define API requirements and align with overall product vision, ensuring stakeholder alignment and technical feasibility.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards, best practices, and regulatory requirements related to API design and implementation, such as GDPR, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001, to mitigate risks and maintain trust.
- Drive the adoption of modern API development frameworks and tools (e.g., OpenAPI, Swagger, GraphQL) to improve efficiency, performance, and maintainability, while reducing technical debt and enhancing developer productivity.
- Establish and maintain comprehensive API documentation to facilitate seamless integration for both internal and external developers, ensuring clarity, consistency, and ease of use across all platforms.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise API performance to ensure high availability and low latency, leveraging monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack for real-time analytics and proactive issue resolution.
- Mentor and provide guidance to junior developers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement through code reviews, technical workshops, and collaborative problem-solving.
- Lead architectural decisions and technical strategy for API products, balancing innovation with operational stability and scalability for global user bases.
- Collaborate with security teams to implement and enforce secure coding practices, including encryption, rate limiting, and authentication mechanisms, to protect sensitive financial data.
- Participate in product roadmap planning to identify API features that align with market demands and business objectives, ensuring competitive advantage and user satisfaction.
Job Requirements
- Proven experience as a Lead Engineer in API development, with a minimum of 5 years in designing and delivering scalable APIs for high-traffic, mission-critical platforms.
- Expertise in RESTful API design principles, including stateless communication, resource-based endpoints, and HTTP methods, with hands-on experience in Python, Java, or Node.js.
- Strong understanding of API security frameworks (e.g., OAuth 2.0, JWT, API gateways) and compliance with financial regulations to safeguard user transactions and data integrity.
- Experience with cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) to deploy and manage APIs in distributed environments.
- Ability to lead and coordinate API development lifecycle, from requirement gathering to deployment and post-launch maintenance, with a focus on automation and DevOps practices.
- Excellent communication skills to translate technical requirements into business value and collaborate with non-technical stakeholders for alignment.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical mindset to debug complex issues, optimise system performance, and ensure reliability under high load conditions.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) and version control systems (e.g., Git) to streamline development workflows and ensure code quality.
- Preferred: Experience with blockchain integration, smart contract APIs, or decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms to support crypto payment innovations.
- Preferred: Familiarity with API management platforms (e.g., Apigee, Kong) and microservices architecture to enhance system modularity and scalability.
