API Developer- job post

May 24, 2026

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API Developers power the digital revolution

Learn more about joining the API development team at Near BPO.

Educational Requirements

Bachelors: Engineering or Computer Science / Physics / Mathematics / Applied Mathematics

Languages: Conversational and Technical English

Experience Requirements

The following requirements will be evaluated during the interview.

The items in red could be tested during the interview.

The items in black will be closely evaluated and you must have recent experience and use (less than 3 months since last use)

Development in Linux

  • Be able to define session variables, environment variable, and global environment variable
  • Be fluent with curl command
  • Be fluent with ssh command
  • Be fluent with scp command
  • Be fluent with either rsync or rcp command
  • Be fluent with commands find, grep, sed, cat, touch, head, tail, tar, chmod, chown, wget, zip, unzip, alias, ps, kill, and echo
  • Understand and use of linux pipe and redirect capabilities
  • Understand and describe the behavior of a process and sub-process and how it affects pipes
  • Be fluent in bash shell
  • Create scripts using bash programing

HTTP Protocol

  • Understand the differences between HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1
  • Understand HTTP Headers and their usage
  • Understand HTTP Methods/Verbs and their common usage
  • Fully understand how HTTP request and response is conformed.
  • Understand how caching works at both sides client and server and what HTTP headers are commonly used

Web Services development

  • Understand Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) documents
  • Defining openapi specifications using swagger 2.0 and 3.0

Node.js development

  • Develop Node.js applications using express
  • Integration test with cucumber.js
  • Implement test cases using Selenium
  • Implement unit tests using mockito, chai, sinon

Java development

  • Implement unit test using TestNG
  • Build a Java application using maven strictly through command line
  • Deep knowledge in Java Object Oriented Programing features:
  • Inheritance
  • Overloading
  • Encapsulation
  • Polymorphism
  • Abstraction
  • Strong knowledge for:
  • Coupling
  • Cohesion
  • Association
  • Aggregation
  • Composition
  • Create REST services using Spring RestTemplate
  • Interact with SQL databases using Spring Jdbc Templates

Maven builds

  • Create a maven project from scratch
  • Deep understanding of maven goals
  • Deep understanding of maven phases
  • Deep understanding of how maven plugins work. Plugin creation is a plus
  • Deep understanding of how maven profiles work
  • Be able to define a maven profile in a maven project
  • Be able to describe end-to-end the build lifecycle of a maven project given its goals, phases, and profiles
  • Understand and create a maven project using a Project Inheritance strategy
  • Understand and create a maven project using a Project Aggregation strategy
  • Execute a maven build strictly from command line by indicating properties, goals, phases, and plugins as required
  • Be able to publish artifacts to a maven repository