API Developer

<div class="content-intro"><h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Company Introduction</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">WorldStrides is the global leader in educational travel and experiential learning. The company was founded in 1967 to provide middle school travel programs to Washington, D.C. and has grown to provide a wide range of programs for more than half a million students annually to over 100 countries around the world. WorldStrides offers experiential learning programs in educational travel, performing arts, language immersion, career exploration, service-learning, study abroad, and sports. Each of these experiences helps students to see beyond the classroom and to see the world – and themselves – in new ways.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Job Description</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">WorldStrides is seeking an experienced Integration Engineer to design, build, and support secure, scalable integrations across enterprise systems, third-party platforms, and internal applications. This role will be part of our technology team in Mérida, Mexico and will help improve how our systems connect, exchange data, and support business operations.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Azure Integration Services, Azure API Management, REST and SOAP APIs, message queues, pub/sub patterns, Azure DevOps, and Git. Experience with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a plus, but not required.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this role, the Integration Engineer will work closely with architects, product owners, analysts, developers, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into reliable integration solutions. The right candidate will bring a strong engineering mindset, good communication skills, and the ability to build clean, maintainable, and secure integration workflows.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Responsibilities:</span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Design, develop, test, deploy, and support secure and scalable integrations across enterprise systems, third-party platforms, and internal applications.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build and manage REST APIs using Azure API Management / APIM and related API lifecycle practices.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Develop and support message-based and event-driven integrations using queues, pub/sub patterns, asynchronous processing, and event streaming patterns.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Work hands-on with Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hub, Azure Web Apps, Azure SQL, and Microsoft Entra ID.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Develop REST and SOAP APIs using JSON, XML, and common data transformation patterns.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Implement secure authentication and authorization patterns using OAuth 2.0, JWT, token-based authentication, certificates, mTLS, and related security standards.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Develop integration solutions, automation scripts, and internal tools using Python and Microsoft Azure services.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Follow integration best practices for API design, naming standards, error handling, retry logic, resiliency, monitoring, logging, alerting, and deployment.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Apply DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, version control, automated deployments, and environment management.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Support release planning, technical dependencies, deployment coordination, and production readiness.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monitor, troubleshoot, and support production integration environments using tools such as Dynatrace.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with architects, product owners, business analysts, security teams, engineering teams, and business stakeholders.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Create and maintain technical documentation, API specifications, integration diagrams, support guides, and runbooks.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Participate in Agile delivery activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, demos, retrospectives, and production support reviews.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure integration solutions meet security, audit, compliance, performance, and reliability expectations.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Qualifications:</span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, E