API Developer

Job Description

Role title: API Developer

Type of contract: Permanent

Location: Cork or Dublin

Your Role:  

The role of the API Developer for the Capability team is to maintain and provide additional functionality to existing systems and the design/development of new applications. As a member of the capability team you will collaborate with an experienced technical team in a project-based environment where you will be tasked to create the best solutions to facilitate the substantial growth of our online traffic.

Your Team:

The IT Department is responsible for the delivery of all IT services to the bank.  The capability team manage the Open Banking PSD2 API channel as well as Apple Pay and other external facing banking channels. Your team are also responsible for the implementation of new Capabilities as they are prioritised. The team currently has 4 sub teams, each over a specific area: Payments (Apple Pay, and other payments initiatives), Open Banking (PSD2 API channel), SCA (Strong Customer Authentication for our customers) and our digital transformation team.

Your Responsibilities:

People 

• Gain credibility and establish excellent relationships with key business stakeholders.
• Maintain a positive and favourable approach to change.
• Must be able to work on own initiative in a demanding environment.
• Show strong communication and interpersonal skills 
• Work with others, building and maintaining strong professional relationships.

Main Activities

• Design solutions (or assist with the design) that best support the business requirements.
• Develop those solutions.
• Adhere to Bank IT Project Methodology & Standards.
• Research new technologies and initiatives.
• Work in a sprint team to ensure quality assurance. 
• Work with other IT teams (e.g. Infrastructure) on project issues. 
• Support projects from inception through the various stages of the development lifecycle into Production and Implementation.

Risk Management

• Identify and control risks in advance and make suggestions to team about how to mitigate against risks. 
• Maintain awareness of all compliance, regulatory & legal directives and support development of approaches to minimise risk and potential damage to our reputation. 
• Support the management of risk by ensuring that product services and processes operate as intended. 

Requirements:

Essential

• Experience with an API definition language, such as Swagger or RAML.
• Expertise in developing for an API Gateway or Enterprise Service Bus.
• Development experience using database technologies such as MS SQL / MySQL.
• Experience in developing API’s and micro services. 
• An ability to learn and understand complex business processes.
• Capability to work on their own initiative in a demanding environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• A desire to develop their IT competency through training and education.

Desired

• 3+  years’ experience in development or related role
• Experience in Release Automation/ deployment automation.
• The ideal candidate will have a third level IT qualification with a strong emphasis on programming.
• Commercial / Market Acumen - knowledge of IT trends and innovations that are occurring in the market place.
• Demonstrate flexibility in delivering on business priorities. 

Who We Are:

At permanent tsb, we are focused on creating a culture that maximises sustainable value by delivering fair customer outcomes, empowering our employees to be their very best and supporting the communities in which we live and work. We care about our people and support our staff to achieve their career goal. We place enormous value on our culture and our history within the Irish Marketplace. We have been serving the people of Ireland for over 200 years and have survived and thrived through the worst and the best of times. 11 February 2018 marked 200 years since the foundation of the Dublin Savings Bank of 11 February 1818.

Joining the team means that together we will grow permanent tsb and continue its contribution to the Irish economy to ensure another 200 years of serving the people of Ireland.