API Gateway Developer & Platform Specialist

Role Overview:

We are seeking a Senior API Gateway Developer to join the Income IT Platform team, responsible for the end-to-end API lifecycle from design and security governance to onboarding automation, developer portal customization, and performance monitoring. The role focuses on enabling enterprise and partner integrations, supporting Income's digital transformation towards an API-driven architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

• API Gateway Development: Design, configure, and manage Layer7 (or equivalent) API Gateways, ensuring scalability, security (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS, IP whitelisting), and compliance with governance standards.
• Integration & Standards: Work with REST, GraphQL, SOAP, JSON, XML, and CSV; implement transformations and schema validation.
• Performance & Monitoring: Optimize API performance (caching, payloads, pooling); monitor via Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Splunk; set up automated alerts and health checks.
• Platform Engineering & DevOps: Automate CI/CD deployments (Jenkins, GitLab, AWS DevOps); integrate with JIRA; implement versioning and rollback strategies.
• Onboarding & Lifecycle: Streamline onboarding for internal/external teams; manage provisioning, sandbox access, keys, and SLAs; customize developer portals; maintain documentation (Swagger, Postman, Confluence).

Requirements:

• Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
• 5+ years API development/integration; 3+ years API Gateway engineering.
• Hands-on with Layer7; exposure to Apigee, MuleSoft, Kong, AWS API Gateway, or Azure API Management.
• Strong knowledge of API security protocols (OAuth2, mTLS, JWT, OIDC).
• Experience with CI/CD, scripting (Python, Shell, Groovy), and monitoring tools.
• Good understanding of databases, server-side technologies, and cloud (AWS preferred).
• Familiarity with hybrid deployments, Kubernetes, and containerized gateways (advantage).

Soft Skills:

• Strong collaboration across engineering, security, and partner teams.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving under pressure.

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