API Solutions Engineer

Traveltechessentialist; Ciudad de México; Presencial; MXN 549,000 - 917,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A technology-driven travel company in Mexico City is seeking an API Solution Engineer. This role involves bridging customer requirements with product functionality, focusing on automation and continuous improvement. You will deploy solutions, automate tasks, document specifications, and ensure quality delivery. Ideal candidates possess an engineering degree and experience with APIs and scripting for automation. Competitive salary and growth opportunities will be offered.

Formación

• Experience interacting with software systems.
• Light experience with continuous integration tools.
• Knowledge of API Security Frameworks.

Responsabilidades

• Deploy solutions to deliver on customer needs.
• Automate repetitive tasks to increase efficiency.
• Document solutions and ensure quality of delivery.
• Monitor the operation of external services and APIs.

Conocimientos

Experience with APIs (Rest, SOAP, GraphQL)

Excellent written and verbal communication

Scripting for process automation

Knowledge of SQL/No-SQL

Educación

Engineering degree

Herramientas

Postman

Git

GitHub/Gitlab

Descripción del empleo

About the role

As an API Solution Engineer, your mission is to be the bridge between customer requirements and product functionality. You’ll be in contact with customers, business, engineering and product teams, transcribing customer needs into technical and functional solutions, with an eye for automation and continuous improvement. Your role is critical for successfully delivering automation projects for our portfolio and product scalability.

Objectives

• Deploy solutions to deliver on customer needs by collaborating with technical and business teams and interacting with our applications and systems.
• Continually automate repetitive tasks to increase the team’s efficiency and output, enabling product scaling.
• Document your proposed solutions: logical model, data model, workflow diagrams, technical set-up specifications, etc.
• Certify your delivery and its integration with other components, designing and performing the relevant tests to ensure the quality of your delivery.
• Monitor the use of external services and internal APIs to ensure their continuous operation, taking appropriate steps to maintain them healthy.

What Makes Someone Successful in this Role (Essential Qualifications)

• Engineering degree with experience interacting with software systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication with senior and junior stakeholders
• Experience with APIs (Rest, SOAP, GraphQL) and extensive use of testing applications (Postman, Insomnia, cURL…)
• Knowledge of SQL/No-SQL and visualization
• Experience with scripting for process automation and RPA programming languages (Python, R, JavaScript, bash…)
• Light experience with continuous integration tools (Git and GitHub/Gitlab…)

Nice to Haves

• Knowledge of API Security Frameworks
• Experience in travel industry technologies like GDS/NDC (Sabre, Amadeus, Travelport, etc)
• Some experience with No-code platforms (retool, appmaster…)