Senior Full-Stack Developer

Want to build backend systems that stop API vulnerabilities before they go live?

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Join our API Security Group

Noname, now Akamai, revolutionizes API discovery and security through its SaaS platform. It offers unparalleled API visibility using runtime monitoring, advanced analytics, and machine learning. The platform processes vast, dynamic data streams, including structured metadata and unstructured payloads. This data variety enhances anomaly detection, insight extraction, and ongoing model optimization in production environments.

About the Role

Akamai's Active Testing product enhances API security by identifying vulnerabilities early in the application development process. It supports development teams in implementing a Shift-Left Security Strategy, addressing risks and improving API protection from the start. Seeking a Senior Full-Stack Developer to join the API Security team, focusing on backend and frontend performance improvements and complex problem-solving.

In this role you will be:

• Innovating and solving problemsexploring emerging technologies, rethinking current solutions, and driving advancements in technical processes.
• Enhancing application performance by optimizing queries, designing improved APIs, and refining frontend interactions to achieve better response times.
• Designing efficient data models while optimizing database structures and queries to guarantee both scalability and high performance.
• Identifying inefficiencies, introducing improved tools, and enhancing workflows to support the team in achieving increased efficiency.
• Improving and modernizing the codebase while enhancing maintainability and applying industry-standard best practices effectively.
• Collaborating across teams, working with product managers and engineering groups to develop and deliver meaningful solutions effectively.
• Ensuring code quality by writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code while fostering an exceptional engineering culture.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Have experience with 5+ years of Full-Stack Development, working on both backend and frontend.
• Have solid experience with PostgreSQL and relational data design.
• Have experience with backend development using Python, including designing and building scalable, maintainable applications.
• Have experience with SQL databases and writing efficient queries
• Have experience with designing data models and solving performance bottlenecks
• Have experience with or other modern frontend frameworks

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply. 

Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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