Senior API / Integration Engineer
DecisionPoint Technologies, Inc.2 years ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and optimize enterprise APIs and backend integration services.
- Implement secure REST and GraphQL endpoints, schemas, and data contracts.
- Design integration workflows, service interactions, and middleware or API gateway connections.
- Build and maintain integration pipelines between internal and external systems.
- Tune API performance, scalability, error handling, routing, hosting, and authentication.
- Troubleshoot complex integration failures, data issues, and cross-system communication gaps.
- Support API versioning, lifecycle management, and migration planning.
- Produce OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, interface definitions, and usage guides.
- Conduct code reviews, enforce development standards, and mentor junior developers.
- Collaborate with developers, cloud engineers, cybersecurity specialists, and mission stakeholders in Agile sprint delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in API development, backend engineering, or systems integration.
- Experience designing secure, scalable REST APIs and integration workflows.
- Experience supporting enterprise systems in federal or DoD environments.
- Experience troubleshooting complex backend and integration issues and delivering changes in Agile environments.
- Strong proficiency with RESTful API design, JSON standards, and schema modeling.
- Experience with API gateways, routing layers, and middleware such as Kong, Apigee, or AWS API Gateway.
- Understanding of authentication and authorization using OAuth2, SAML, and JWT.
- Knowledge of secure coding practices and DoD cybersecurity requirements.
- Experience with synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven, and message-queue integration patterns.
- Active Top Secret clearance supported by a Tier 5 background investigation.
- CompTIA Security+ certification.
- Preferred: GraphQL API development and AWS cloud-native integration services including Lambda, API Gateway, and EventBridge.
- Preferred: familiarity with microservices, container orchestration, and service mesh architectures.
- Preferred: AWS Developer or Architect certification, ITIL v4 Foundation, or integration/API architecture certifications.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, documentation, collaboration, and API architecture skills.
Benefits
- Fully remote position.
- The role includes collaboration across engineering, cloud, cybersecurity, and mission teams in a sprint-based Agile environment.
About DecisionPoint Technologies, Inc.
DecisionPoint Technologies, Inc. provides enterprise mobility and edge technology integration for large organizations, combining its IntelliTrack asset and inventory platform with managed services such as device lifecycle management, RFID, and help desk support. The company sells hardware, software, and implementation/support services to enterprises in supply chain, retail, and government. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, it operates across the U.S. and Canada and is privately held.