
Platform Engineer – API Gateway, Observability
Fineasy Tech
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Brazil
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About the role
- Help define technical solutions together with development teams, aligned with business and product needs
- Apply critical thinking to analyze, explore and suggest improvements to the current environment
- Support teams during production incidents, analyzing and enabling definitive fixes through root cause analysis
- Pursue excellence in deliverables by creating acceptance scenarios and unit tests
- Produce technical documentation for projects and API contracts, and keep them up to date as project needs evolve
- Work with the Architecture team to define API Gateway configuration standards
- Define solution architecture standards together with Development Squads
- Observability: Monitor API health and performance in real time to proactively detect failures and bottlenecks
- Usage Policies: Configure rate limiting, caching and payload transformations (headers and logic) without changing the original backend code
- Resilience: Implement horizontal scalability strategies and support for mission-critical applications
Requirements
- Experience in architecture and development of distributed systems, with Microservices and RESTful APIs
- Experience with various frameworks and platforms, primarily Node.js and Express.js
- Experience with transactional and non-transactional databases, such as Oracle, SQL Server and MongoDB
- Experience creating and managing queues using RabbitMQ or Kafka
- Experience managing releases and versioning with GitLab and other CI/CD practices
- Familiarity and experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP)
- Desired knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure and/or AWS)
- Desired knowledge of activity management systems (Jira)
- Integration: Expertise in microservices architectures, REST/GraphQL protocols and zero trust concepts
- Security: Implement authentication, authorization and protection protocols at the gateway to filter malicious traffic before it reaches the backend
- Adaptive Governance: Manage APIs in complex environments (hybrid or multicloud), unifying multiple gateways under a single control plane
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Hard Skills & Tools
microservicesRESTful APIsNode.jsExpress.jsOracleSQL ServerMongoDBRabbitMQKafkaGitLab
Soft Skills
critical thinkingproblem solvingcommunicationcollaborationadaptabilityattention to detailanalytical skillsdocumentation skillsproactive monitoringexcellence in deliverables