Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain GraphQL schemas and resolvers to support application functionality.
- Build and manage APIs using Apollo Server, incorporating advanced features like caching and state management.
- Implement and manage GraphQL queries and mutations, ensuring seamless data integration and performance optimization.
- Design APIs using Microservices, JSON, and JWT (JSON Web Token) for token-based authentication.
- Support the testing and debugging of GraphQL APIs to ensure reliability and robustness.
- Collaborate with product teams to confirm business or functional requirements and align them with technical solutions.
- Draft and refine user stories to support Agile development processes.
- Optimize API security using tools like 42Crunch for threat protection and security auditing.
Required Experience
- 6+ years of experience in software development with a focus on GraphQL.
- Proficiency in designing and implementing GraphQL schemas and APIs using Apollo Server.
- Familiarity with backend services such as Spring Boot, Spring Reactive, or similar frameworks.
- Experience with Google Cloud (GCP), including an understanding of Google Cloud infrastructure.
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js
- Hands-on experience with GraphQL query optimization, caching, and state management.
- Familiarity with testing frameworks and debugging techniques for GraphQL implementations.
- Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, including user story drafting and refinement.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or a related field.
Preferred Experience
- Familiarity with databases like Postgres, MongoDB, AlloyDB, or related technologies.
- Experience with API design, including microservices, JSON, and JWT for token-based authentication.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Cloud Build, GCP Artifact Registry, or similar.
- Knowledge of Go-lang, RUST, Netflix DGS APIs
- Experience with performance monitoring and logging tools like Cloud Monitoring, Splunk, or Dynatrace.
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What We Do
Doran Jones Inc. (DJI) is the leading financial services Data Engineering and Application Development firm, specializing in Capital Markets, Risk, and Regulatory Compliance. We are US-based, helping our clients fill gaps in capacity and expertise, reduce risk, and accelerate change. Our leaders average over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and Technology. DJI is repeatedly engaged by the largest and most complex clients for our Agile transformation expertise and practical understanding of the critical relationship between data, architecture, and application development. DJI has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at DJI. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm. DJI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLaren Strategic Ventures, a private equity firm, that invests in start-ups and scale-ups. They provide a full range of highly trusted domain consulting, advisory services, and innovative technologies globally. Doran Jones is able to offer a broad range of technology, deeper AI and machine learning tools, data intelligence, alternative resourcing capabilities, and capital access to invest and digitize at scale. Our clients benefit from this unique portfolio allowing them to accelerate the pace of their own digital transformations through innovative products and services designed around industry-wide issues.
