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API Developer
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$70 - $85 / hour
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Role Description
Codeworks, an LRS company, is seeking an API Developer for a contract opportunity. This position offers an exciting chance to apply your technical expertise while contributing to impactful initiatives for one of our trusted client partners.
We are seeking an API Developer who brings a broad and well‑rounded technical skill set to support the design and delivery of modern, scalable software solutions. In this role, you will work with:
- API orchestration
- Event‑driven architecture
- Industry‑standard development tools
You will build and maintain high‑scale applications across the full engineering stack. The ideal candidate:
- writes clean, maintainable, and well‑tested code
- follows object‑oriented best practices
- applies modern development approaches such as serverless computing, microservices, CI/CD, and infrastructure‑as‑code to create reliable and efficient systems
Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands‑on experience developing APIs
- Experience with Java 17+, Spring 5+, Spring Boot 3+, and RESTful API design
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and inter‑service communication
- Practical experience with caching solutions such as Redis
- Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment
- Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL systems (e.g., MongoDB or Cassandra)
- Experience designing, implementing, and supporting cloud‑native applications on platforms such as Google Cloud or AWS
- Proficiency in RESTful API design and development
- Familiarity with API security best practices such as OAuth2 and JWT
- Experience using API documentation tools like Swagger or Postman
- Experience writing unit and integration tests in Java and JUnit, ideally using TDD
Requirements
- Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience designing and developing cloud‑native solutions
- Experience refactoring or applying design patterns
- Experience practicing continuous integration and trunk‑based development
- Experience implementing test‑driven development
- Experience applying object‑oriented design principles such as SOLID and GRASP
- Experience with advanced cloud services such as BigQuery, Bigtable, Pub/Sub, SQS, Event Bridge, GKE/EKS
Benefits
- The base range for this contract position is $70.00 - $85.00 per hour, depending on experience
- The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hires of this position across all U.S. locations
- Individual pay is determined by work location and additional job-related factors
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of hands‑on experience developing APIs
- Experience with Java 17+, Spring 5+, Spring Boot 3+, and RESTful API design
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and inter‑service communication
- Practical experience with caching solutions such as Redis
- Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment
- Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL systems (e.g., MongoDB or Cassandra)
- Experience designing, implementing, and supporting cloud‑native applications on platforms such as Google Cloud or AWS
- Proficiency in RESTful API design and development
- Familiarity with API security best practices such as OAuth2 and JWT
- Experience using API documentation tools like Swagger or Postman
- Experience writing unit and integration tests in Java and JUnit, ideally using TDD
- Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience designing and developing cloud‑native solutions
- Experience refactoring or applying design patterns
- Experience practicing continuous integration and trunk‑based development
- Experience implementing test‑driven development
- Experience applying object‑oriented design principles such as SOLID and GRASP
- Experience with advanced cloud services such as BigQuery, Bigtable, Pub/Sub, SQS, Event Bridge, GKE/EKS
Benefits
- The base range for this contract position is $70.00 - $85.00 per hour, depending on experience
- The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hires of this position across all U.S. locations
- Individual pay is determined by work location and additional job-related factors
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