Azure Backend Engineer / API Developer (Dubai for initial 6 months) then India Remote

India
Permanent
Full-time

12 hours ago

Job DescriptionAbout the roleThe ideal candidate should have 6+ years of hands-on experience for designing, developing, and maintaining API frameworks to meet business requirements. This role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration between internal and external systems within the Azure cloud environment. Combining deep API development expertise with Azure cloud proficiency, the position focuses on building and optimizing highly available, secure, and scalable API endpoints.Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain APIs using designated programming languages.
Collaborate with Azure Data Engineers to ensure seamless integration of API functionality with data platform.
Onboard external systems to integrate with the API framework for data exchange in batch/real-time modes.
Develop, manage, and deploy secure, scalable, and efficient REST APIs to ingest data from external sources and expose endpoints for data extraction from Azure storage layer.

Technical Responsibilities

Expert level coding skills in RESTful API development in .Net
Implement clean architecture, modularized programming, and relevant standards in API framework development
Develop integration pipelines to push/pull data from Azure Blob Storage, Microsoft Fabric, and other sources
Implement authentication and authorization of external data provider and consumers
Optimize API performance, implement proper exception handling, logging, monitoring mechanisms
Integrate authentication via OAuth/Entra ID, and API Gateway design using Azure APIM
Hands-on experience in implementing API security and load balancing using Azure App Gateway, WAF, Network Security Groups, DNS etc.
Proficiency in API versioning, throttling, routing, and caching strategy
Hands-on experience in Azure APIM, Swagger for API documentation and exposing APIs for testing
Integration of API frameworks with internal and external systems, applications, databases etc.
Ensure compliance with security standards, including encryption, masking, role-based access
Build CI/CD and containerized applications to build automatic pipelines and securely deploying on Azure
Hand-on experience with Postman and automation suites
Understanding of data privacy, PII handling, and compliance requirements
Conduct stress testing on APIs and optimize performance to meet client expectations
Ensure code quality and API functionality through unit testing, integration testing, performance testing, and code reviews
Familiarity with PySpark and data engineering pipeline is a plus
Ensure compliance with security and governance policies throughout API development lifecycle
Configure automated scaling solutions to handle workload fluctuations
Create and maintain comprehensive architecture documentation, including diagrams, processes, and technical specifications

Note : This role is strictly for backend API development using .Net and Azure. Any profiles with Front-end web development experience will not be considered.

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