Java API Engineer

Chandler, AZ (Hybrid 3 Days onsite every week).

Job Description

• Part of a dynamic team building and implementing the enterprise Demand Management intake and routing capability within the Apptio platform, focused on configuration, data architecture, and scalable reporting

• The Senior Engineer designs, builds and runs the RESTful APIS at the heart of our distributed platform.

• Design clean, consistent, versioned RESTful APIS: resource modelling, semantics, status codes, paginationx, filtering and error contracts.

• Write and maintain API specifications and review API designs from other engineers.

• Build high-quality, well-tested Java services, primarily with Spring Boot.

• Apply API security practices: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, input validation and rate liiting.

• Use asynchronous and event-driven patterns where they fit better than synchronous calls.

• Build microservices that stay correct and available under partial failure: timeouts, reties with backoff, circuit breakers, idempotency and graceful degradation.

• Design services for scalability and performance.

• Contribute to data pipelines that move and transform data between services and databases.

• Write unit, integration and contract tests; keep CI?CD pipelines green.

• Deploy and run services on containers and cloud infrastructure.

• 7+ years of experience in building backend services in Java

• Strong hands-on experience with Spring Boot and the wider Spring ecosystem

• Proven track record of designing and implementing RESTful APIs

• Experience in building and running microservies in a distributed environment

• Familiarity with messaging or streaming systems like Kafka

• Working knowledge of relational databases

• Good understanding of data pipelines

• Experience in Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker and Kubernetes

Preferred Qualifications:

• Data pipeline tools: Apache Spark, Airflow

• API gateways and service mesh

• NoSQL and caching

• Observability tooling