API Developer

The API Developer designs, builds, and maintains the APIs that connect enterprise systems, digital products, and external partners. This is a hands-on engineering role responsible for producing well-designed, robust, scalable, secure, well-documented APIs that other teams can discover and reuse for communication between internal products, third-party platforms and client-facing applications.The API platform is run both as an internal product and as a managed service. The API Developer works contract-first, publishing APIs to the enterprise catalogue and developer portal, and builds the reusable components, templates, and policies that raise the standard of every API delivered across the organisation.Kong is the primary gateway, operating alongside Apigee, Azure API Management, and AWS API Gateway across a multi-cloud estate on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.Main ResponsibilitiesAPI Design and DevelopmentDesign and build APIs contract-first using OpenAPI/Swagger, applying enter