API Developer

TEKsystems - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The API Developer position at TEKsystems involves developing and maintaining a next-generation order management system (OMS). The role requires a highly motivated software engineer to join a team responsible for enhancing and supporting a proprietary distributed transactional infrastructure. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to a project from the ground up within the Technology department.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for writing, reviewing and publishing example trading and admin applications using OMS API.
• Responsible for maintaining API documentation using OpenAPI and relevant tools.
• Be an integral part of an agile product development team responsible for this important infrastructure.
• Work together with team members to develop scalable, testable, and elegant code.
• Test and deploy your code for use in production using automated tests.
• Able to assist with producing automated testing scripts with Python Behave.

Requirements

• Experience with Web technologies and scripting languages such as JavaScript and Python.
• High level of interest and knowledge in trading Equities, Options, Futures and Crypto.
• Experience documenting Web APIs. Able to work with OpenAPI and editing tools.
• An affinity for well-architected solutions and a passion for high standards of quality.
• Skilled with development tools - Git, GitLab, Docker is helpful.

Nice-to-haves

• RESTful APIs
• Websockets
• Swagger
• Python scripting
• JavaScript