Lead Software Engineer

PGS API Platform Engineering Team

PGS API Platform Engineering team is focused on enabling teams across the company to build and integrate APIs efficiently. We provide the tools, standards, and best practices that empower developers to create secure, scalable, and high-quality APIs. If you're passionate about improving developer workflows, shaping API governance, and fostering an API-first culture, we'd love to hear from you.

Vision: Ensure teams have the foundation to leverage APIs as strategic enablers and core products contributing to exponential growth.

Strategy: We strive to solve problems within four key pillars:

• Standards and Governance: Engineers need clear API standards and efficient ways to meet API standards.
• Security: Engineers need to properly secure APIs which they produce and consume.
• Engineer Advocacy: Engineers need the right tools and platforms to produce and consume APIs.
• API Culture: Shift engineering mindset and culture to API-first.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and enhance the API portal to improve developer experience.
• Design and implement API resources within AWS.
• Collaborate with cloud engineering teams and stakeholders to address API challenges.
• Improve API security, monitoring, logging, and observability to ensure platform reliability.
• Assist development teams in defining API standards, governance, and best practices.
• Support automation efforts for infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and deployments.
• Provide guidance and support to development teams on API design and integrations.

Role Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS CDK, with exposure to API Gateway, Lambda, IAM policies & GitAction.
• Programming skills in Python or Typescript, with a willingness to learn best practices for clean, maintainable code.
• Hands-on experience or familiarity with API platforms, specifically AWS API Gateway or Apigee.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and practices.
• Understanding of API security concepts (OAuth, JWT, etc.) and a desire to learn more.
• Foundational knowledge of RESTful and GraphQL API design principles, with an eagerness to grow in this area.

Additional preferred technical experience:

• Github and CI/CD pipelines
• Application development or infrastructure automation
• Security engineering mindset

Keys to success:

• Strong collaboration
• Constant curiosity
• Analytical ability
• Problem solving skills
• Self-starter
• Empathy