API Developer

About This Role

This engineering role involves joining the delivery team for Experian's cutting-edge API platform, Ascend DataHub, which integrates data intelligence with OpenAI capabilities. The platform allows clients and internal teams to access, consume, and derive insights from data assets through well-designed APIs. You will be instrumental in designing, building, and evolving this API platform, ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable data delivery to clients.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable RESTful APIs that serve as the primary data access layer for clients
• Deploy and scale API services on AWS, leveraging cloud-native tools to ensure high availability and performance
• Implement API security best practices, including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and data privacy controls aligned to PDPA/GDPR
• Develop and maintain end-to-end data workflows that ensure timely, accurate, and secure delivery of data assets to clients and internal consumers
• Participate in the research, design, development, integration, testing, and deployment of software applications
• Conduct technical analysis and design of application modules and databases
• Ensure developed modules comply with established architecture standards, coding standards, and quality requirements
• Participate in client meetings, requirement gathering sessions, solution reviews, and technical workshops to support project delivery and system integration

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in software development, system design, and application support
• Strong hands-on experience in designing, developing, and integrating RESTful APIs following OpenAPI Specification and web services, including REST, SOAP, JSON, and JWT-based authentication
• Familiarity with API gateway tools
• Experience with software development, integration, testing, and deployment practices
• Experience with cloud platforms
• Experience in .NET (C#) and ASP.NET Core, particularly in developing REST APIs, is preferred
• Knowledge of data governance, data security, and privacy best practices
• Experience troubleshooting application, data, integration, and performance issues
• Experience with CodeIgniter and MVC architecture
• Good understanding of Agile, SCRUM, SDLC, and software design concepts

Nice to have:

• Additional experience with PHP, Java, Python, MySQL, Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery

Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement: home and office
• Inclusive paid leave
• People-first and inclusive workplace
• Paid Internship