Api Engineer

Summary

Join Halcyon, a leading anti-ransomware solution provider, as a Cloud API Engineer. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to design, develop, and maintain our cloud APIs. This role requires extensive experience building enterprise-quality APIs using modern programming languages and web server frameworks. You will be responsible for ensuring API usability, reliability, and security. Halcyon offers a remote-native work environment and a comprehensive benefits package, including full health insurance, 401k, paid time off, parental leave, and equity.

Requirements

• Extensive experience building enterprise-quality APIs using a modern programming language and web server framework
• Experience with API versioning and design principles that promote discoverability, such as HATEOAS
• Experience with API documentation tooling such as the Open API Specification
• Experience interfacing with a variety of databases and data stores
• Experience securing APIs using OpenID Connect (OIDC) and related authorization flows
• Experience deploying infrastructure and applications in AWS
• Ability to collaborate with other engineering teams on integration and architectural design
• Design and automate comprehensive API test suites for robust functionality, performance, and security
• Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes with Helm (or similar tooling)
• Experience building APIs in Scala or C#

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Teams: Work closely with product managers and team members. Align API design with product vision and user needs, ensuring consistency and usability
• Interface with UI and Data Platform Teams: Coordinate with UI and data platform developers. Ensure that UI components and APIs are seamlessly integrated, focusing on API usability and user experience
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Continuously explore new techniques and tools to improve API development processes and design patterns. Encourage innovation within the team
• System Reliability Experience : Design for sustainable reliability and monitor APIs for issues or degradation and respond appropriately and responsibly

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and/or ArgoCD
• Experience with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Postgres, DynamoDB, and/or Kafka

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
• 401k plan with a generous employer contribution
• Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans
• Medical and dependent care FSA options
• Flexible PTO policy
• Parental leave
• Generous equity offering