API Connect Developer - Remote

Valleysoft is an IT services provider delivering enterprise technology solutions, software development, process management, and infrastructure services to clients around the world. Working across the Information Technology and Services sector, the company supports organizations with the systems, integrations, and platforms they rely on to run and scale critical operations. This role is an opportunity to contribute to enterprise API initiatives that connect applications, data, and services across complex environments. As an API Connect Developer, you will play a key part in building reliable, secure, and well-governed integration solutions while partnering with architects, developers, QA, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams to support high-quality delivery and ongoing platform performance.

Responsibilities

• 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

Required Qualifications

• 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 Qualifications

• Experience with IBM DataPower, IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) / IIB, or IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I).
• Experience with Kafka or event-driven integration.
• Experience in the Banking or Financial Services sector.

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Training & Development