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  • JOB TYPE: Freelance/ Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
  • LOCATION: Remote - Champaign, IL, Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, Peoria, IL, Westminster, CA
  • SALARY RANGE: $63 - $73 /hr
  • ESTIMATED DURATION: 40hr/week - Long term
  • EXPERIENCE: 1-3 years
  • BRAINTRUST JOB ID: 9725

THE OPPORTUNITY

Requirements

Education & Experience Required:
- Position requires a four-year degree from an accredited college or
university.
- 2+ years or more of software development experience.
- Associates degree in a technical field, they will need 5+ years of
actual software development experience.

Technical Skills

- Experience writing API proxies on platforms such as Apigee Edge, AWS API Gateway or Azure API Gateway or similar.

- Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger Editor & Postman, and linting tools like Spectral.

- Knowledge of security standards such as OAuth 2.0 and TLS.

Nice to have:
- *Familiarity working in a Scrum environment *Must demonstrate solid
knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures and
algorithms. *

- Hands on experience with metrics and visualization tools like Kibana, Grafana, or equivalent.

What you’ll be working on

This position is on the API Management team within
Cat Digital. The team is responsible for the process, controls, and tools
that support API development, security, publishing, consumption, and
monitoring. 1. Competent to perform all programming, project
management, and development assignments without close supervision;
normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work. 2. Works
directly on complex application/technical problem identification and
resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls. 3.
Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components
that may be used by one or more applications or systems. 4. Drives
application development focused around delivering business valuable
features 5. Maintains high standards of software quality within the team
by establishing good practices and habits 6. Identifies and encourage
areas for growth and improvement within the team 7. Guide the team to
develop a structured application/interface code, new program
documentation, operations documentation, and user guides in a casual,
flexible environment. Communicate with end-users and internal
customers to help direct the development, debugging, and testing of
application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and
completeness. 8. Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance
testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to
ensure timely, quality results.

 

Notes:

Our employers all have varying legal and geographic requirements for their roles, they trust Braintrust to find them the talent that meet their unique specifications. For that reason, this role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

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