Api Architect

Orcapod Consulting Services; Hyderabad, Pune District, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Orcapod Consulting Services in Hyderabad is seeking a Senior API Architect to define end-to-end API design, interface patterns, and contract standards. You will own OpenAPI specs and establish contract-first workflows, while drafting reference implementations for teams to pattern-match.

The role emphasizes resilience, high throughput, and low latency, with backpressure, circuit breaking, retries, and rate limiting.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Java with Spring Boot and microservices.
• Proficient in REST APIs using Spring MVC and OpenAPI specs.
• Experience with reactive programming: Project Reactor / WebFlux.
• Familiar with API security, performance tuning, resiliency patterns, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain end-to-end API architecture and design.
• Create reusable API patterns for inbound/outbound interfaces.
• Own OpenAPI specification approach and contract-first workflows.
• Design patterns for large payload transfers (chunked, resumable, signed URLs).
• Document architectural trade-offs with ADRs.
• Design for resilience and scale (backpressure, circuit breaking, retries, rate limiting).
• Write reference implementations for engineering teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST API

OpenAPI

Reactive Spring

API Security

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• API Architecture & Design: Define and maintain the end-to-end design covering service boundaries, contracts, data models, error semantics, and versioning strategies.
• Interface Landscape: Produce repeatable, reusable API patterns for inbound/outbound interfaces (data exchange, file push/pull, synchronous and asynchronous flows).
• Contract Standards: Own the OpenAPI specification approach, naming/payload conventions, backward-compatibility rules, and contract-first workflows.
• Large File Transfer Design: Define patterns for moving large payloads reliably (chunked/resumable transfers, streaming, signed URLs, checksums, restart on failure).
• Technical Trade-offs: Make architectural decisions between synchronous APIs, queue-backed asynchronous flows, and bulk file interfaces, documenting them via ADRs.
• Resilience & Scale: Design for high throughput and low latency, incorporating backpressure, circuit breaking, retries with idempotency, rate limiting, and timeout budgets.
• Reference Implementation: Set standards and prove them by writing reference services that engineering teams can follow and pattern-match against.

Preferred candidate profile

• Core Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Spring Data / Hibernate.
• API & Web Services: Java REST API, REST Web Services using Spring MVC, OpenAPI Specs.
• Reactive & Advanced Spring: Project Reactor / WebFlux, Spring Cloud, Spring Batch.
• Architecture Concepts: API Security, Performance Tuning, Resiliency Patterns, Distributed Systems.

Soft Skills:

• Strong collaboration skills to partner effectively with client-side architects and engineering leads.
• Excellent technical documentation skills (ADRs, system design documents).