API Designer - Insurance Sector / Bristol

Location
Bristol, Bristol & Hove
Salary
£45,000 - £55,000 per annum
Posted
09 Dec 2016
Closes
06 Jan 2017
Ref
1348814
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Position: API Designer - Insurance
Location: Bristol
Salary: £55K + Package
Job Type: Full time

Our company client is a fats growing financial services brand who are actively looking to recruit a dynamic and tenacious API Designer - Insurance to join their vibrant team based in Bristol. The successful applicant will join the API team within our Digital organisation, working within one of the employer's scrum teams to design excellent RESTful APIs that will underpin both ours and our partners; digital apps. This is a unique opportunity to join a widely respected brand in a period of fast paced change.

Main responsibilities for this job will involve:

* Designing APIs for developers - if they can't simply call them, they won't
* Ensure that the APIs that can be versioned, built and maintained
* Designing the APIs, resources and sub-resources based on the business domain by linking with a business Subject Matter Expert
* You take responsibility for trade-offs with the product owner for non-functional, based on real knowledge of complexity and impact, and then providing technical leadership on things like caching strategy and redundancy

Key competencies and background required:

* Excellent technical expertise in Java Development and associated frameworks (Junit, Cucumber, Jenkins, Spring, Maven)
* Hands on experience of developing with RedHat FUSE, Apache ServiceMix or Apache Camel.
* Hands on experience of designing, building and supporting RESTful APIs
* Excellent knowledge of industry direction and trends within RESTful API development
* Strong experience of server side Java development and associated concerns (e.g. thread management, database access, ORM, security)
* Hands on experience with working on high volume systems - 100-1000 TPS
* Experience of working in large teams with a shared codebase, and designing & building for maintainability
* Experience of working in geographically dispersed teams
* Have a strong working knowledge of Agile Software Architectures, GoF OO Software Design Patterns, the SOLID principles, Test and Behaviour Driven Development

Keywords: API, Design, RedHat, Java, Apache, Fuse, Tech, IT

Please send an up-to-date copy of your CV to be considered for this position.