Software Engineer - Apigee

Software Engineer - Apigee

An Apigee Software Development Engineer is a technical position responsible for leading the development and implementation of API solutions using the Apigee platform, acting as a subject matter expert for the team, overseeing API design principles, best practices, and ensuring the quality and scalability of API deployments while mentoring junior developers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust API integrations.

About the Role:

In this opportunity as Software Engineer - Apigee, you will:

• Deep understanding of overall API architecture and ability to define API gateways, security models, throttling mechanisms, and data transformation strategies within the Apigee platform.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, API versioning, and API documentation standards.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language like Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Delivers end-to-end technical solutions for multiple systems or complex projects.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues related to API performance, security, and integration, acting as L3 contact for production support.
• Leads routine projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.
• Solves complex problems with minimal guidance.

About You:

You're a fit for the role of Software Engineer - Apigee if your background includes:

• Design, develop, configure, and troubleshoot APIs and policies using Apigee.
• Follow API design principles, best practices, and coding standards to ensure efficient and maintainable API implementations.
• 2+ years of extensive experience with Apigee platform features, including API proxies, policies, developer portals, and management console.
• Total 3-5 years of Software Development (and Design) work experience using modern API Gateway (Apigee, MuleSoft, Dell Boomi etc).
• Ability to do the hands-on development and testing of APIs on the Apigee platform, including configuration of policies, custom JavaScript, and integration with backend systems. Work with vendors/contractors to drive deployment and release activities.
• Monitor API usage metrics, identify performance bottlenecks, and implement optimization strategies to ensure high availability and scalability. Improve time to resolve issues related to Apigee and assist frontend and backend teams to analyze issues.
• Ensure APIs adhere to security standards, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption.
• Documents and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.

Other Key Skills:

• Excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and present technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Provides subject matter expertise across sub-units.

What's in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.