Junior API Developer - Remote (WFH)

Cognitive Medical Systems - Austin, TX

Full-time - Entry Level

Remote - Austin, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Cognitive is seeking a Junior API Developer to design, develop, and maintain APIs that meet high-performance and scalability requirements. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, optimizing API performance, and troubleshooting issues, while adhering to software development standards and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain APIs that meet high-performance and scalability requirements
• Experience developing REST API services
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and define API specifications
• Optimize API performance, security, and reliability
• Troubleshoot and debug API issues
• Ability to decrypt JSON, XML structured data into normalized data sets
• Creating high-availability applications
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code that adheres to software development standards and best practices
• Participate in software design and architecture discussions to ensure the software meets functional and non-functional requirements
• Collaborate with other developers, testers, and stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of software features and bug fixes
• Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members
• Continuously learn and stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies related to C#/.NET development

Requirements

• Proven experience in API development, including REST and SOAP
• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages commonly used in API development in C#/.NET
• Knowledge of database systems and data modeling
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and frameworks quickly
• Proficiency in version control systems, especially Git
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins
• Knowledge of Azure API development and integration
• Experience working in Microsoft API web services or equivalent

Nice-to-haves

• Experience supporting healthcare applications
• Experience in Agile methodologies