Senior Integration Engineer

Established in 2008, Geidea epitomizes customer focused empowerment and commercial success through continuous innovation.

Geidea makes best in class digital payment solutions available for all by attracting and leveraging the best creative & entrepreneurial talent in the market

Our solutions give any business the chance to get ahead and reach for more no matter their size or maturity.

Our technology mirrors our people - Smart, Innovative & Forward Thinking

www.geidea.net

To maintain a competitive advantage as we grow, we are currently looking for a new "Senior Integration Engineer"

Job purpose:

Design, build, and support secure and scalable APIs and middleware integrations that enable seamless communication across internal systems and external partners. Contribute to the reliability of development and testing environments for integration components, with DevOps exposure as a plus. This role accelerates delivery and improves resilience through strong engineering practices, documentation, and operational discipline.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain system integrations with solid knowledge integration patterns, orchestration flows, messaging techniques, …etc.
• Implement and support API management & configurations using Kong, Tyk, apigee, or any other relevant platform, with hands on routes, authentication, rate limits/throttling, policies, and observability.
• Produce and maintain integration documentation (Swagger/Confluence) and adhere to versioning standards and change discipline.
• Troubleshoot and resolve integration defects/incidents across development and testing environments; participate in root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Support stability of development/testing integration environments by identifying misconfigurations, dependency issues, and environment drift; coordinate fixes with DevOps/Infrastructure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, QA, architects, and infrastructure to align integrations with the overall system design and delivery timelines.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering (or equivalent practical experience).
• 3–6 years of experience in integration using ESB / gateway / API Management.
• Hands-on experience building and supporting APIs and integrations in multi-system environments.

Functional Knowledge (must have):

• Good understanding of API design, service-to-service integration, and integration troubleshooting practices.
• Experience with API gateways, preferably in one or more of (Tyk/Kong/Apigee/AWS API Gateway) at implementation/configuration level.
• Good understanding of asynchronous messaging / middleware (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) and service orchestration patterns.
• Working knowledge of observability fundamentals (logging/metrics/tracing) for integration services.

Functional Knowledge (preferred):

• DevOps exposure: CI/CD concepts, containerization basics (Docker), and ability to learn IaC fundamentals (Terraform/Ansible) for dev/test contributions.
• Familiarity with OAuth2/JWT and API security controls (mTLS awareness is a plus).
• Exposure to Prometheus/Grafana or similar monitoring tools.