API Engineer: Build Scalable, Secure Microservices

White Cloak Technologies, Inc.; Manila; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

White Cloak Technologies, Inc. in Manila is seeking an API Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable APIs and microservices. The role focuses on integrating backend systems with front-end apps, deploying through an API gateway, and collaborating within an agile team.

You will contribute to documentation, support production issues at L3, and help transfer knowledge across peers and teams, ensuring secure, well-tested code and adherence to SDLC best practices.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of API development experience.

Responsibilities

• Integrate backend core systems with front-end applications through API development.
• Develop scalable, maintainable, and secure code for deployment in an API gateway platform.
• Develop microservices for customized API functions (e.g., encryption algorithms and database connectivity).
• Participate in the end-to-end software development life cycle of projects.
• Implement API security controls (e.g., rate limiting, JWT, OAuth, API keys).
• Write comprehensive API documentation and conduct technical knowledge transfer to support teams and development peers.
• Debug issues effectively and develop unit tests.
• Collaborate within a highly functional team and adhere to agile ways of working.
• Support production issues as L3

Skills

API development

IBM API Connect

RESTful/Web services

SOAP API

JavaScript/NodeJS

NestJS

SQL/NoSQL

API security

Docker

GitLab

Linux CLI

Documentation

Agile

Production support

Tools

IBM API Connect

Docker

GitLab

Linux CLI

API gateway platform

Job description

White Cloak Technologies, Inc. in Manila is seeking an API Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable APIs and microservices. The role focuses on integrating backend systems with front-end apps, deploying through an API gateway, and collaborating within an agile team.

You will contribute to documentation, support production issues at L3, and help transfer knowledge across peers and teams, ensuring secure, well-tested code and adherence to SDLC best practices.