Software Engineer

Software Engineer - API Developer
**Who are we?**

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 210 data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.

We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success

As a key member of the Equinix Product Software Engineering team you will be responsible for designing and developing APIs. You will be involved in the development lifecycle from architecture, design, implementation, testing and support with a focus on delivering solutions adhering to business goals, technical requirements and engineering standards.

**Responsibilities**:

- Hands on Design, Development, Deployment & Support of API Engineering Platform
- Incorporates standards and best practices, including performance, security, scalability and maintainability
- Interact with Business System Analysts to design and deliver technical solutions to support various business functions
- Responsible for maintaining cloud architecture landscape (operation/security architecture)
- Provide thought leadership and lead innovation by exploring, investigating, recommending, benchmarking and implementing tools and frameworks.
- Work in a Globally Distributed Development team environment to enable successful delivery with a mínimal supervision
- Advocate, document, and follow best design and development practices

**It is you, if**:

- You are passionate, creative and self-driven
- You are curious and collaborative, and a believer in the power of teams and teamwork
- You are flexible and have a broad set of capabilities to wear multiple hats
- You thrive in a dynamic and a fast-paced environment
- You pursue speed and simplicity relentlessly
- You are a natural leader in everything you do

**Experience**:

- BS/MS degree or equivalent with 2+ years in the field of Software Engineering and Development
- An obsession with customer experience, product fidelity, developer documentation, API ecosystem and exceptional developer experience.
- **Minimum 1 years of experience in building Platforms, Frameworks & API’s using Open Source Java and Spring Boot is mandatory**:

- Exposure to the other frameworks and programming languages like Python, NodeJS, Golang is a plus
- Strong working experience in micro services API first development, API gateway & API Orchestration
- Experience working with Open Source API Gateway Frameworks, Mulesoft/Apigee API Gateway is a plus
- Hands-on Experience in AWS/GCP and technologies like Ansible, Containers, Kubernetes etc is a plus
- AWS Certified Developer Associate is a plus
- Working experience with Swagger (Open API Spec), OAuth, REST, JSON etc.,
- Working Knowledge on Reactive/Functional Programming is highly desirable
- Excellent understanding of Service oriented design & architecture, Application Integration & Messaging, Security and Web 2.0.
- Strong understanding of design patterns and best practices in Java
- Strong Experience/Knowledge on Data modeling (RDBMS, XSD, JSON), Database/XML interaction, SQL, Stored Procedure and ORM.
- Exceptional communication, organization and presentation skills
- Experience working with in Agile or Scaled Agile Framework is required

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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