Engineer Connector API

A senior developer role, working on Connectors and supporting software used in other applications.

You are expected to be hands on and spend a significant amount of your time writing code and implementing features/stories defined by the Product Owner.

As a contributor, you’ll be a team member charged with implementing features in a timely fashion seamlessly with the overall solution offered to our customers.

This role is for the generation of a set of libraries which is then used to build connectors.  These connectors communicate between HID devices and 3rd party products. The deployment environment varies, sometimes the 3rd party products are “on prem” with a libraries approach or it might be a Cloud based deployment with a RESTful API as the interface.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software connectors and APIs that integrate our platform with the 3rd party products.
• Ensure all integrations are secure, reliable, and performant, using best practices in authentication, encryption, and error handling.
• Require little oversight beyond high level direction and can take a complex scenario, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing sub-tasks with relative ease.
• Communicates technical decisions through design docs and white papers.
• Communicates effectively with cross functions, can work well with Product, Design, Analytics, etc, as necessary.
• Proactively identifies problems with requirements (lack of clarity, inconsistencies, technical limitations) and communicates these issues early to help course-correct.
• Working in a team environment.

• Proficient in .NET Core &/or C, C++ & C#
• Fluent with RESTful interfaces
• Familiarity of communication protocols such as MQTT
• Fluent with software version control.
• TDD Unit test approach.
• Good understanding and skills with CI/CD.
• Security by design and related life cycle requirements e.g CVE.

• Engineering degree or equivalent or suitable experience.
• Minimum of 5+ years of related industry experience.
• Scripting / Automation: Python or PowerShell for tooling, automation, and integration testing.
• Data & API Work: SQL for data access, JSON/XML for data interchange, and basic JavaScript/TypeScript understanding for API or UI integration contexts.
• Understanding of security best practices: OAuth2, JWT, TLS, and “security by design” principles.
• Comfortable working with both on-premises and cloud-based integration endpoints.
• Experience troubleshooting complex API and connectivity issues.
• Familiar creating multiple representative deployment environments to validate our solution.
• Experience of the access control industry.
• Experience developing networked applications in an enterprise environment would be an advantage.