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# Kafka API Gateway Engineer

- **Company:** OpenKyber LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Mobile Application Development, Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Distributed Systems, Mobile Application Software, OAuth, OpenID, Web Application Frameworks, Caching, Apigee, Customer Identity Access Management, Apache Kafka, Api Design, Api Gateway, Microservices
- **Published:** May 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=54016e072b44a944

## About the Role

* Strong background in mobile app development
 * Experience designing and implementing BFF/Orchestration layers
 * Familiarity with API gateways (Apigee), CDN strategies, caching, and service integration.
 * Understanding of OAuth/OIDC, CIAM flows, and client-side token security.
 * Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native design.
 * Prior engineering background with progression into architecture.

## Description

Title: Solution Architect-Mobile Duration: 6 Months Contract Location: Seattle, WA (Remote) Key Responsibilities Define the multilayer architecture for Web and Mobile apps, including client, BFF/orchestration, API gateway, and service integration layers. Architect experience APIs and orchestration patterns across UCPC, UCPR, Location, and related services. Provide handson guidance to engineering teams, participating in design reviews, code reviews, and solution implementation. Lead architectural decisions related to mobile frameworks, web frameworks, caching, CDN strategy, API design, security, and observability. Collaborate with product, engineering, CIAM, Payments, AntiFraud, and platform teams to ensure cohesive solution design. Ensure adherence to non-functional requirements: performance, reliability, scalability, and security.


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