Job Description

Principal Web API Engineer

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  Opportunity to be a part of an Engineering, Development & Integration team in Singapore!
• Based in Singapore, the regional hub for Asia Pacific (AP) and top-ranked biopharmaceutical company on The Straits Times and Statista\xe2\x80\x99s list of Best Employers in Singapore for three consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022).
• Join the premier biopharmaceutical company that has been in Singapore for more than 25 years and in AP for over 60 years.

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation. Join us in the digital health revolution and tackle biggest opportunities and challenges at the intersection of healthcare, information and technology. Become a member of our IT Global Innovation Network in the heart of Singapore with start-up atmosphere and flat, friendly and collaborative environment. Enjoy a reward that technology careers don\xe2\x80\x99t often bring: the satisfaction of helping to save lives. Primary Responsibilities

• Designing and creating robust interfaces to integrate a variety of systems and technologies to solve business problems and create scalable solutions.
• Develops deep understanding of our company\xe2\x80\x99s existing technology platforms and their interfaces as required by project work.
• Evaluates and recommends interface approaches to create high performing, scalable solutions.
• Drives towards industry standards and RESTful services, but understands limitations of legacy systems and identifies appropriate integration approaches.
• Be an \xe2\x80\x9cevangelist\xe2\x80\x9d for Web API adoption.
• Collaborate efficiently internally within the team and with other platform teams.

Education Minimum Requirement:

• MSc Degree or BSc Degree with relevant experience in Computer Science or related field.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum 8 years or proven record of leading API design and development on projects with the following skills:
• Strong experience designing and creating robust and secure RESTful web API and microservices.
• Drive and influence web API design towards re-usability and scalability.
• Good understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of REST approaches .
• Deep understanding of HTTP as a protocol including content negotiation, idempotency, and the various response codes and their semantic meanings.
• Has experience handling RESTful HTTP/JSON or SOAP APIs at scale.
• Strong technical skills across the entire development stack.
• Experience using Test-driven development.
• Working experience in Agile/Scrum development team setting.
• Familiarity with DevOps and Continuous Integration & Delivery.
• Strong understanding of one or more of the following languages and frameworks: Javascript, Java, Node.JS, Relational and non-relational databases.
• Ability to coach junior members of the team.
• Experience with Kong, APIGee or similar API Management or API Gateway products a plus.
• Understanding of various API Specification standards like API Blueprint, Open API (Swagger) a plus.
• Experience in evangelizing Web API adoption and demonstrating success a plus.

Who we are \xe2\x80\xa6 We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world\'s most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
What we look for \xe2\x80\xa6 Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us\xe2\x80\x94and start making your impact today. We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another\xe2\x80\x99s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
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Requisition ID:R235676