API Connect Developer

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🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Valleysoft | Center of Excellence

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

Consulting

Valleysoft is an IT services company based in Egypt, founded under the Egyptian Investment Law for over 15 years. As a regional provider, Valleysoft serves clients globally, partnering with organizations like IBM to address complex business and technical challenges. Their offerings include consulting, system services, IT infrastructure services, and a range of IBM-specific solutions such as software development services, business process management, and robotic process automation. With a focus on quality delivery and operational discipline, Valleysoft ensures high-quality, predictable outcomes for its clients.

📋 Description

• Develop, configure, and maintain APIs using IBM API Connect. • Design and implement RESTful APIs based on business and technical requirements. • Manage the full API lifecycle, including development, testing, deployment, versioning, and retirement. • Configure API Gateway policies for authentication, authorization, security, rate limiting, throttling, routing, and traffic management. • Implement API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT, TLS/SSL, and related security mechanisms. • Develop and maintain API definitions using OpenAPI and Swagger. • Configure API products, plans, applications, subscriptions, and consumer access. • Support and maintain the API Developer Portal and API publishing processes. • Integrate APIs with backend applications, databases, middleware platforms, and external systems. • Work with REST, SOAP, HTTP/HTTPS, JSON, and XML. • Troubleshoot API connectivity, security, performance, and integration issues. • Monitor API performance, traffic, errors, and availability. • Support API deployments across Development, UAT, and Production environments. • Participate in API testing, defect resolution, and production support. • Collaborate with solution architects, application developers, QA, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams. • Prepare and maintain API specifications, technical documentation, deployment documents, and support procedures. • Participate in code and design reviews and follow established API development and governance standards. • Support production incidents and resolve API-related issues.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field. • 6–8 years of hands-on experience in API management, API development, and enterprise integration. • Strong practical experience with IBM API Connect (APIC), including API design, development, configuration, security policies, lifecycle management, deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting. • Experience designing and developing REST APIs, with strong knowledge of OpenAPI / Swagger. • Experience configuring API Gateway policies including routing, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and throttling, along with implementing API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT, and TLS/SSL. • Experience integrating APIs with enterprise applications, databases, and middleware, and working with HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP web services, JSON, and XML for enterprise and legacy system integration. • Experience with API lifecycle management across Development, UAT, and Production, including versioning, publishing, deployment, retirement, testing, defect resolution, and production deployment support. • Experience following established API design and security standards, participating in secure API design or review processes, adhering to enterprise development standards, and supporting structured release and change-management processes. • Good to very good written and spoken English for technical documentation, API specifications, technical discussions, troubleshooting, and collaboration with technical teams. • Good to very good written and spoken Arabic for communication and coordination with local Saudi stakeholders and teams. • Availability during Saudi Arabia business hours. • Preferred: Experience with IBM DataPower, IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) / IIB, or IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I). • Preferred: Experience with Kafka or event-driven integration. • Preferred: Experience in the Banking or Financial Services sector.

🏖️ Benefits

• Private Health Insurance • Training & Development