API Platform Engineer

Remote

Our client seeks an API Platform Engineer with Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway and Java Spring Boot microservices experience to support API modernization and migration from Mule Soft to Layer
7. The engineer will analyze existing integrations, migrate gateway functionality, and modernize business logic, orchestration, and data transformations using Java/Spring Boot microservices. The role collaborates with architecture, security, and Dev Ops teams in an Agile environment to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable APIs.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $56.00 to $66.00/hr. w2

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• Design, develop, and support enterprise APIs using Layer7 API Gateway.
• Implement API security policies including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, and mTLS, plus rate limiting and threat protection.
• Configure and maintain Layer7 policies, routing, transformations, mediation, and traffic management.
• Develop and enhance RESTful APIs and Java/Spring Boot microservices.
• Participate in migration of APIs and services from Mule Soft to Layer
  7.
• Integrate microservices with internal and external REST/SOAP APIs, databases, and third-party systems.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, security, and Dev Ops teams.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Troubleshoot performance, scalability, reliability, and security issues.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and architecture artifacts.
• Participate in API governance and platform standardization initiatives.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands‑on Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway experience.
• 5+ years of Java development with strong Spring Boot and RESTful API experience.
• Relational database and SQL experience.
• Security implementations: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, and mTLS.
• Git-based workflows and CI/CD tools such as Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, or Git Hub Actions.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Preferred:
  Mule Soft-to-Layer7 migration experience; monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or App Dynamics;
  Financial Services or Banking experience.
• Nice‑to‑have: API governance, Kafka or event-driven architecture, Mule Soft Anypoint Platform, and Enterprise IAM integrations such as Okta, Ping, or Microsoft Entra .