Highlights
The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience with REST APIs, API management, API product design, Swagger/OpenAPI documentation, security controls, and modern integration patterns, including hands-on experience building and maintaining MCP servers. Requirements* We are seeking a strong Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade APIs, middleware services, and data-driven backend systems.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Aurora, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
| Website | http://q1tech.com/ |
Description
| **Please strictly adhere to the following resume naming convention: ALL CAPS, NO SPACES B/T UNDERSCORES PTN_US_GBAMSREQID_CandidateBeelineID i.e. PTN_US_9999999_SKIPJOHNSON0413 MSP Owner: William Bristol Location: See Below Duration: 6 months ails / Example Content Job Requirements* We are seeking a strong Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade APIs, middleware services, and data-driven backend systems. This role will focus on developing scalable API products, enabling API consumers, enforcing API governance standards, and supporting secure API onboarding and consumption patterns. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience with REST APIs, API management, API product design, Swagger/OpenAPI documentation, security controls, and modern integration patterns, including hands-on experience building and maintaining MCP servers. Key Responsibilities* Design, develop, and maintain RESTful and event-driven APIs that meet enterprise standards for scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability. Create and manage API products and API gateway, including: o Defining API product structure and access models. o Setting rate limits, quotas, and volume plans. o Configuring API security policies. o Publishing REST methods through Swagger/OpenAPI documentation. Develop and maintain RESTful APIs that meet enterprise standards for scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability. Configure API proxies, policies, routing, authentication, authorization, and traffic management controls. Partner with application teams, provider teams, and consumer teams to support API onboarding and API consumption. Support API lifecycle activities, including design, development, testing, publishing, versioning, promotion, and retirement. Create, review, and maintain Swagger/OpenAPI specifications for APIs. Ensure APIs are properly secured using modern authentication and authorization patterns such as OAuth 2.0, JWT, API keys, scopes, or similar mechanisms. Assist API consumers with onboarding, app registration, credentials, subscription requests, and troubleshooting API access issues. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define API standards, governance practices, and reusable API patterns. Monitor API performance, traffic, errors, and consumption trends. Troubleshoot API integration issues across lower and production environments. Support documentation and knowledge-sharing related to API products, onboarding processes, and consumption best practices. Section IV - Job Qualifications & Skills Section Details / Example Content Domain Soft Skills - Excellent communication - Team collaboration - Documentation and knowledge sharing Education Requirements Optional Certifications Optional Section V - Sample Questions for Training Model Technical: Golang or Python. RESTful API design and development. Apigee or similar API management platform. Swagger/OpenAPI. OAuth 2.0 and token-based security. API product design. Rate limiting, quotas, and traffic management. API onboarding and consumption. API security and access controls. Postman or similar API testing tools. JSON and YAML. MCP, JSON-RPC, Context Engineering CI/CD and deployment automation. Preferred Skills: Experience with enterprise API catalogs, developer portals, or API marketplaces. Experience with API subscription and approval workflows. Experience with identity providers such as Azure AD, ForgeRock, Okta, Ping, or similar platforms. Experience supporting internal, external, private, or partner-facing APIs. Able to minimize dependency on third party libraries Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or AWS. Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and observability tools. Experience working in Agile delivery environments. Knowledge of API governance, reusable API design standards, and enterprise integration patterns. Experience with a lower-level language such as C, C++, or Rust, particularly for performance-sensitive or systems-level work. Experience with Apigee Hybrid. Experience querying relational databases. Experience in building, maintaining, and optimizing MCP servers Role Descriptions: Java Essential Skills: Java Desirable Skills: Keyword: Skills: Core Java Experience Required: 8-10 |
About Company
Q1 consists of experienced and recognized experts providing the capability to respond to market demand in order to provide professional services for our clients including Enterprise software implementations, application integration and technical / functional support.
Q1 has steadily grown into a Quality IT services and solutions organization with the average experience of our team being over 10 years. We have continuously met or exceeded client expectations by delivering professional services and project implementations on time and under budget to help clients truly recognize return on investment.
