Your responsibilities will range from supporting and helping shape the strategy, design, planning, and implementation of internal and public APIs at Whip Around. Your role is hands-on with the plan to enable more API’s for our Mobile roadmap & also our Integrations roadmap.

You will foster an environment of continuous improvement, sharing your knowledge, fostering a safe environment to share ideas, and learning with the team and wider department. The role requires technical leadership to help enable our API strategy

What success will look like:

• Work closely with our Lead API Engineer and support the existing API technical strategy
• You will recommend solution designs to key stakeholders while taking the team on a journey.
• You will successfully provide feedback and support our infrastructure strategy to enable scaling, governance, speed & quality for our APIs
• You and your team will produce quality documentation for internal and external use where required.
• You will support our internal and external API strategy & strategy that paves a pathway forward with stakeholder buy in
• You successfully support & execute projects involving multiple developers and complex requirements, prioritising strategically while supporting our integrations team, web team & mobile team.
• Present a clear, balanced analysis of advantages and disadvantages for proposed technical solutions while being mindful of where Whip Around is heading in the next 1-2 years.
• Give reasonable and defensible time and effort estimates of your squad’s work when required, and proactively surface any changes to those estimates as the work progresses;
• You Identify risks to inform contingency plans as soon as possible to ensure our API are designed for the future.
• Execute technical roadmap items and integrate them alongside other product work with the guidance of other team members
• You tactfully plan for future proofing our API eco system while giving continuous visibility of where we are today and where we are going.

What you’ll bring to the role:
Critical Competencies:

• Strong understanding of industry best practices across software integrations
• Strong technical understanding of API technologies - REST, GRPC, SOAP, etc)
• Good understanding of PHP
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to present your ideas and to develop positive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Effective team player with the ability to work with a diverse array of people

• Excited to learn about how our industry works, the opportunities in the integration space and the value we bring to our customers.
• Openness to receiving and giving feedback in a safe and inclusive work environment
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities.
• Willingness to build professional relationships throughout our entire business.
• A desire to learn and an ability to pick things up quickly
• You've demonstrated the ability to effectively work collaboratively across functions.

Experience:

• Strong technical understanding of API technologies - REST, GRPC, SOAP, etc
• Experience in enterprise ecosystems
• Experience in PHP
• A background in API Security, monitoring and best practices
• API Development for the Cloud, preferably AWS and/or Mulesoft
• Low Code/No Code experience
• Serverless architecture