Joining Razer will place you on a global mission to revolutionize the way the world games. Razer is a place to do great work, offering you the opportunity to make an impact globally while working across a global team located across 5 continents. Razer is also a great place to work, providing you the unique, gamer-centric #LifeAtRazer experience that will put you in an accelerated growth, both personally and professionally.
Job Responsibilities :
We are seeking a senior API Developer to lead the design and development of cutting-edge AI-powered cloud services, APIs and plugins. This candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-performance AI solutions, playing a crucial role in advancing our AI capabilities and ensuring that our cloud-based services are at the forefront of innovation.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable AI-powered APIs / plugins that allow integration of AI services, and algorithms into various applications, through RESTful or GraphQL APIs to ensure that they are secure, performant, and well-documented.
- Collaborate with AI/ML teams to ensure that AI/ML solution teams, product managers and software development teams to define API, plugin requirements, while ensuring it can be easily integrated and accessed via APIs and plugins.
- Ensure API security by implementing authentication mechanisms (OAuth, API Keys, etc.) and maintaining compliance with security standards, encryption and data privacy regulations.
- Regularly conduct security audits and vulnerability assessments to ensure APIs are free from exploits and security risks.
- Monitor AI API health and performance in real time and provide timely solutions to API-related issues, such as downtime, bugs, or performance degradation.
- Actively troubleshoot and debug any issues with API integrations to ensure seamless operation for users.
- Monitor and optimize model performance in production environments, ensuring API latency and availability meet the required SLAs (Service Level Agreements).
- Stay up to date with the latest AI/ML frameworks, tools, and industry trends in API, plugins development to continuously improve and enhance API solutions.
- Explore new AI services and frameworks to integrate cutting-edge AI functionalities through APIs and plugins.
- Identify opportunities to improve existing AI API / plugins architectures and suggest new features or services to add value to AI products.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior cloud / SRE engineers, data scientists, data engineers, software developers and other team members.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in API and plugin development.
- Strong portfolio of public-facing APIs deployed for AI software products / platforms.
- Strong experience in building and consuming APIs (RESTful, GraphQL) and plugins.
- Strong in programming languages such as Python, Java, Node.js, or similar languages commonly used in AI and API, plugin development.
- Experience in developing and deploying AI applications running both locally and on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform) using Infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
- In depth understanding of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and DevOps practices.
- Knowledge of API security standards and practices (OAuth, JWT, etc.).
- Experience with database management (SQL/NoSQL) and handling large-scale data systems.
- Ability and willingness to learn any new technologies and apply them at work in order to stay ahead, in a fast paced, high pressure, agile environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams.
Education & Experience
- Has a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or similar discipline from an accredited institution
Travel Requirements
- Role based in Singapore office and may require up to 1 travel trip per year.
Pre-Requisites :
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What We Do
Razer™ is the world’s leading lifestyle brand for gamers.
The triple-headed snake trademark of Razer is one of the most recognized logos in the global gaming and esports communities.
With a fan base that spans every continent, the company has designed and built the world’s largest gamer-focused ecosystem of hardware, software and services.
Razer’s award-winning hardware includes high-performance gaming peripherals and Blade gaming laptops. Razer’s software platform, with over 70 million users, includes Razer Synapse (an Internet of Things platform), Razer Chroma™ (a proprietary RGB lighting technology system), and Razer Cortex (a game optimizer and launcher).
In services, Razer Gold is one of the world’s largest virtual credit services for gamers, and Razer Fintech is one of the largest online-to-offline digital payment networks in SE Asia.
Founded in 2005 and dual-headquartered in Irvine and Singapore, Razer has 18 offices worldwide and is recognized as the leading brand for gamers in the USA, Europe and China. Razer is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 1337).