API Engineer

Summary

Join Climate Arc, a philanthropic organization accelerating corporate climate transitions, as a driven API Engineer. You will design, build, and maintain APIs for our data warehouse, ensuring high availability, security, and scalability. Collaborate with internal and external teams to integrate APIs with third-party systems. Optimize API performance and implement comprehensive documentation. This role offers a remote-first option across Poland, Romania, and Portugal. The ideal candidate possesses strong API design experience, cloud computing expertise, and scripting skills. Climate data API familiarity is a plus.

Requirements

• Experience of cloud computing, e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP (preferred)
• Experience with at least one of Java, Python (preferred), Node.js and experience in API design, standards and best practices
• Hands-on experience with API gateways, security, and management tools (Apigee experience ideal)
• Scripting skills, e.g. bash, python and automation skills
• Knowledge of containerization concepts, Kubernetes, serverless
• Security, DevSecOps knowledge, as well as monitoring and logging solutions
• Basic database skills & SQL

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain APIs to provide seamless access to Climate Arc’s data warehouse, ensuring high availability, security, and scalability
• Optimize API performance by monitoring and improving response times, caching strategies, and load balancing
• Ensure API documentation is comprehensive and developer-friendly, including OpenAPI/Swagger specifications
• Work with external partners and internal teams (including Data Engineers and DevOps Engineers) to facilitate API integration, ensuring interoperability with third-party systems and financial data platforms
• Develop API rate-limiting, throttling, and monitoring solutions to manage traffic and ensure reliability
• Implement API testing frameworks to automate testing and improve reliability

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on Django experience
• Continuous integration and GitLab experience
• Familiarity with climate data APIs or open data initiatives
• Experience with financial data APIs and integration with investment platforms
• Understanding of net zero transition
• Green software concepts, patterns, best practices
• Basic understanding on Machine Learning and AI, MLOps

Benefits

• Generous paid time off
• Health and wellbeing program
• 9% employer contribution to retirement planning
• Enhanced family pay and leave policies
• Professional learning & development program
• Professional membership paid (if applicable)
• Nomad working policy