API & Integration Developer

About the role

CINET, a Kuwaiti credit information company, is hiring a full-time, on-site API & Integration Developer in Kuwait City. The role designs, develops and maintains APIs and integration solutions that connect CINET's credit information systems with internal and external applications, monitors production integrations, resolves incidents and contributes to improving technical architecture and integration standards.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain RESTful APIs, SOAP services and enterprise integration components, keeping them reusable, scalable and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Provide operational support for production API services and integration platforms, and monitor availability, latency, throughput, error rates and resource utilization.
• Investigate and resolve API incidents, service interruptions and integration failures, including root cause analysis and permanent corrective actions.
• Maintain API monitoring dashboards, automated alerts, health checks, preventive maintenance, operational documentation, troubleshooting procedures and support runbooks.
• Implement and maintain API security controls in line with cybersecurity policies, CBK requirements and industry standards.
• Maintain an enterprise API catalog with approved APIs, service owners, consumers, documentation and lifecycle status.

Required profile

• Hands-on backend development experience with Java.NET Core, C# or equivalent enterprise technologies.
• Experience with API management platforms and gateways such as Google Apigee or Kong.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, microservices, integration patterns and event-driven architectures.

Required skills

• CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• DevSecOps familiarity, including OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Security Top 10 and secure coding standards.