API Enablement Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Provide guidance and assistance to development teams in integrating and implementing API platforms within customer environments.

• Participate in design-first methodologies for API and event architecture.

• Aid in the development and improvement of CI/CD pipelines and automation processes.

• Contribute to testing strategies, with a focus on contract testing and integration testing.

• Collaborate directly with teams through pair programming, design pairs, workshops, training sessions, code reviews, and technical discussions.

• Set API standards, guidelines, and reusable components while establishing self-service platforms.

• Ensure high-quality APIs and consistent development practices across teams.

• Enhance your own API knowledge through structured learning, hands-on experience, and knowledge sharing within the team.

• Integrate technical implementation, knowledge transfer, and close teamwork.

• Work alongside project leads, product owners, business analysts, security engineers, operations teams, and testing teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Several years of professional experience in software development, preferably with a concentration on automation or integration.

• Strong proficiency in an object-oriented programming language and common frameworks, such as Java and Spring Boot.

• Familiarity with CI/CD and contemporary development practices.

• Eagerness to actively and systematically learn about API-specific subjects like API design, API management, OpenAPI, and AsyncAPI; basic knowledge is necessary, while advanced knowledge is not mandatory.

• Experience in software testing, including contract testing and test pyramids.

• Enjoyment in knowledge sharing, team support, and designing training sessions.

• Willingness to take responsibility for teams, proactively shape initiatives, and empower others.

• Capability to articulate complex technical topics clearly and practically.

• Structured, pragmatic, and cooperative working style.

• Fluent in German, both spoken and written (C2 level).

• Proficient in English at C1 level.

🏝️ Benefits

• 31 days of paid vacation from the first day, with the possibility of up to 40 days per year.

• Annual budget for personal professional development.

• Flexible working hours and the option for remote work.

• Childcare/daycare allowance.

• Summer parties, Christmas celebrations, and various team events.

• JobRad bicycle leasing and a subsidy for VGN/public transport.

• Company pension scheme contribution.

• Capital-forming benefits (VWL).

• Modern office equipped with a billiards room, foosball table, and massage chair.

• Corporate benefits program offering shopping and sports discounts.

• Complimentary drinks, muesli, and fruit available in the office.

• A Christmas tree provided for each employee.