Senior API Engineer

About the Company
At Redpin we
simplify life's most important payments.
Buying a new property overseas can be a stressful time, especially when it comes to moving your money. Through our Currencies Direct and TorFX brands we've been helping people do just that for over 25 years. With recent investment we're now on a mission to build a new range of digital products and services that will make moving money Internationally for Real Estate purchases even easier

We're on a mission to become the solution for Real Estate payments everywhere
. To do this, we are transitioning our business from a horizontal FX platform to a verticalized, embedded software company, as we look to the future and Redpin 2.0.

About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled
Senior API Engineer
to join our
Engineering Operations
team in a
senior engineer
role. This role focuses on establishing and enabling best practices for API design, development, and management across the organization. The ideal candidate will combine hands-on technical expertise with a passion for engineering standards, automation, and developer enablement to drive a consistent and secure API ecosystem. Experience of APIM platform migration will be an added advantage.

What You'll Do

• API Design & Development
• Define and enforce enterprise-wide standards for RESTful, GraphQL, and event-driven APIs.
• Develop reusable templates, proxies, and shared policies for API gateways (Apigee, Layer7).
• Collaborate with domain teams to review API specifications (OpenAPI/Swagger) and ensure alignment with design guidelines.
• API Platform Engineering
• Build and manage API management platforms and developer portals.
• Automate API lifecycle processes — onboarding, deployment, versioning, and retirement.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines for API testing, deployment, and analytics.
• Optimize API performance through caching, quota management, and load control.
• Security & Governance
• Implement and enforce API security standards (OAuth2.0, OIDC, JWT, mTLS).
• Work with Identity & Access Management (IAM) teams to federate APIs with enterprise IdPs (e.g., Keycloak, Okta, Azure AD).
• Establish governance frameworks for API cataloging, discovery, versioning, and deprecation.
• Promote adoption of the organization's API style guide and review process.
• Engineering Excellence & Enablement
• Create reference architectures, documentation, and code samples to accelerate API delivery.
• Drive internal API community initiatives — training, workshops, and reusable assets.
• Implement observability and analytics dashboards to measure API adoption, quality, and performance.
• Partner with platform, DevOps, and security teams to ensure alignment with cloud and engineering standards.

What You'll Need

• 4–8 years of experience in API development or management roles.
• Strong proficiency in REST API design and OpenAPI specifications.
• Hands-on experience with Apigee and Layer7 API Management Platforms.
• Working knowledge of OAuth2.0, JWT, mTLS, and API security best practices.
• Proficiency in either Java, , JavaScript or Python for building and integrating microservices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of cloud platforms (Google Cloud and AWS).

Bonus Points

• Experience defining API governance frameworks or establishing API CoE standards.
• Exposure to event-driven or asynchronous APIs (Kafka, Async API).
• Knowledge of API analytics and observability tools (Apigee Analytics, Coralogix, Grafana).
• Strong communication skills for cross-team collaboration and technical documentation.
• Experience mentoring teams in API-first and microservices design principles.