Staff API Architect & Cloud DevOps Engineer

Zinnia; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/dental insurance (provided by Z

Parental leave

401(k)

Bonus opportunity

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Zinnia, Alpharetta, GA, seeks a Staff API Developer to design, document, and maintain enterprise APIs with polyglot tech stacks. You will work with the API management team to deploy gateway features, security, tracing, and analytics, while shaping the CI/CD processes for rapid, reliable delivery.

You will design scalable search capabilities, integrate IAM across APIs, and mentor teams on best practices in a cloud-native environment. A strong communicator with 6+ years of experience is ideal.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience.
• Experience developing and deploying in a cloud-native environment.
• Experience with languages like .NET, Java, TypeScript.
• Experience working with API gateways (Apigee, Kong).
• DevOps tasks: CI/CD, environment provisioning, monitoring; containerized env a bonus.
• Excellent work ethic; ability to work and travel independently; strategic thinking.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environment.
• Understanding of software development principles and design patterns.
• Proven experience in designing and maintaining versioned APIs.
• Experience with AWS services like Lambda, EC2, S3.
• Stay up to date with API development trends.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and implement API standards and best practices for Zinnia enterprise APIs.
• Collaborate with API management team to implement API gateway capabilities (traceability, monitoring, security, analytics).
• Design and maintain Zinnia’s enterprise search with natural language capabilities and scalability.
• Write and maintain enterprise APIs with polyglot architecture and languages.
• Help improve software development and deployment lifecycle for API management.
• Create and maintain developer portal for enterprise APIs.
• Implement and automate unit, functional, integration and contract testing for APIs.
• Write high-quality, scalable, maintainable, and performant code.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure quality and maintainability.
• Make technical decisions and provide guidance to development team.
• Integrate enterprise IAM solution for all internal and external APIs.

Skills

Strong communication

Agile/Scrum

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Apigee

Kong

AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3)

.NET

Java

TypeScript

Job description

Zinnia, Alpharetta, GA, seeks a Staff API Developer to design, document, and maintain enterprise APIs with polyglot tech stacks. You will work with the API management team to deploy gateway features, security, tracing, and analytics, while shaping the CI/CD processes for rapid, reliable delivery.

You will design scalable search capabilities, integrate IAM across APIs, and mentor teams on best practices in a cloud-native environment. A strong communicator with 6+ years of experience is ideal.