As one of the world's leading logistics companies, we have opened a new IT Hub in Porto, Portugal. Our goal is to accelerate digital technologies for our global customers, focusing on the development of new mission-critical products, e-solutions, and digital services in accordance with Kuehne+Nagel's strategy.

Your Role

This is your opportunity to design and develop APIs together with or commissioned by different IT product teams – sometimes starting from scratch, sometimes redesigning existing interfaces, and also supporting product teams across the entire API lifecycle, from use case selection over contract negotiation, design up to implementation based on best practices and guidelines. If you are a developer advocate who cares about the needs of API consumers and providers while promoting overarching security and compliance goals within the developer community, maybe this job is for you. You will provide valuable first-hand feedback for the API Management Platform and thereby influence, shape, and continually improve its capabilities.

Your Responsibilities

• Design and develop APIs together with or commissioned by different IT product teams – sometimes starting from scratch or redesigning existing interfaces.

• Responsible for caring about the needs of API consumers and providers while promoting overarching security and compliance goals within the developer community.

• Deliver solutions compliant with our internal API Guidelines while also ensuring a healthy feedback loop exists between development and governance stakeholders.

• Identify platform requirements based on the needs of the API providers and consumers and consult the providing and consuming developers to work with the new API Management Platform.

• Deliver solutions that are compliant with our internal API Guidelines while also ensuring a healthy feedback loop between development and governance stakeholders.

• Support product teams across the entire API life cycle, from use case selection over contract negotiation and design to implementation, based on best practices and guidelines to ensure proper use of the API Platform.

Your Skills and Experiences

• You are confident in at least one major programming language and not afraid of working in a polyglot application landscape (Java experience preferred).

• Around 4 years of experience in a similar role.

• You have ample experience with designing and developing RESTful APIs and either connecting or implementing the necessary backend services.

• You naturally apply software craftsmanship principles like Test Driven Development or Clean Code, in your daily work.

• You have good communication skills to interact, refine, negotiate, and guide product teams to implement APIs with the best quality.

• Collaborative work in international teams inspires you.

Good Reasons to Join

Our work will influence the future of logistics and IT. Our teams are experts who are helping shape the IT industry in Portugal and around the world. We want you to feel comfortable in our working environment, where you will deal with different cultures. As such, we offer flexible working hours. We value teamwork, continuous learning, and diversity. Kuehne + Nagel offers you a tailor-made career - through individual planning and team leaders who support and advise you in every way. We will help you with many work-life balance offers, supplemental health insurance, and our EAP - Employee Assistant Program.

Kuehne + Nagel is an equal employment/affirmative action employer. If you require an accommodation for any part of the online application process due to a disability, please contact the Employee Services HR Help Desk at 1-800-267-1326 during the hours of 8:00am - 5:00pm EST; Monday through Friday or via e-mail at: HR.helpdesk@kuehne-nagel.com with the nature of your request. We will answer your inquiry within 24 hours.