Senior API Engineer (French Speaker)

Inetum is a European leader in digital services. Inetum’s team of 28,000 consultants and specialists strive every day to make a digital impact for businesses, public sector entities and society. Inetum’s solutions aim at contributing to its clients’ performance and innovation as well as the common good.

Present in 19 countries with a dense network of sites, Inetum partners with major software publishers to meet the challenges of digital transformation with proximity and flexibility.

As anAPI Manager, you will be part of a team responsible fordesigning and implementing an API framework for multiple business areas across the CA Group.

You will support different teams in developingexternal‑facing APIs, providing:

• core building blocks
• documentation
• best practices
• training on API adoption

The team operates usingAgile methodology (sprints) and collaborates closely with a remote Team Lead.

In the long term, this role will help establish aDesign Authority extension in Portugal, supporting guidelines, best practices, and future recruitment.

• Strong understanding ofAPIs, API Composition, BFF, API Gateway
• Ability to designJava services and components in a microservices ecosystem
• API documentation expertise:Swagger, OpenAPI (JSON/YAML)
• Ability to write and structuretechnical best practices
• Strong proficiency withJava 8–11
• Excellent knowledge ofSpring Boot (v2+), Spring Data, JPA, Hibernate
• Strong expertise withSpring Security
• Understanding of APIauthentication and authorization
• Ability to buildPOCs and simpleHello World examples
• Awareness ofAPI monitoring
• Capability to assist inAPI architecture and reusable API design
• Experience withAPI performance optimization
• Good understanding of French.

Additional Skills (Nice to Have)

• Jenkins (v2+)
• Splunk (v8+)
• Docker
• API catalog tools (SwaggerHub, Backstage, etc.)