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Company Overview

For more than 70 years, TBC Corporation has been a leader in the mobility industry and one of North America’s largest marketers and distributors of automotive replacement tires through wholesale operations. Additionally, TBC responds to the needs of consumers in search of total car care at nearly 470 franchised tire and automotive service centers under the award-winning Big O Tires® brand. TBC is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

With $5 billion in revenue and more than 3,000 employees in the U.S. and Mexico, TBC markets on a wholesale basis to regional tire chains and distributors serving independent tire dealers and with proprietary brands of tires specializing in passenger, commercial, farm and specialty tires. In 2005, TBC Corp. was purchased by Sumitomo Corporation of America (SCOA). SCOA is the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of Japan’s major integrated trading and investment business enterprises. In 2018, Michelin, the largest tire manufacturer in Europe, invested in the company which is now a 50:50, privately held joint venture between Sumitomo and Michelin.

Our values are the foundation of our work, how we interact with each other, and the strategies we employ to fulfill our purpose. These are the practices we use every day – in everything we do:

• Integrity - We act honestly because nothing is more important than our reputation.
• Teamwork - We are better together.
• People-Focused - We put people first – our Associates, customers, franchisees, and partners – and cultivate a respectful, collaborative, and inclusive culture, top to bottom, inside and out.
• Accountability - We own our actions and decisions; we do what we say we are going to do.
• Leave Everything Better - We innovate to improve everything we touch, and we take actions now to protect the future.

Description

The Senior Integration Developer (API Platform) is responsible for designing, building, automating, and operating TBC's enterprise API platforms supporting the Unified Digital Platform (UDP) strategy. This role serves as a senior technical contributor responsible for API gateway engineering, platform automation, developer enablement, operational excellence, and API lifecycle management.

The ideal candidate has deep hands-on expertise with Apigee, cloud-native architectures, API security, CI/CD automation, observability, and platform engineering. This role partners closely with Enterprise Architecture, Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Cloud Engineering, and Product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available API services that accelerate digital transformation initiatives across TBC. The position supports the broader API Platform Architect by implementing platform standards, reference architectures, and operational practices.

Responsibilities

API Platform Engineering

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise API platform capabilities utilizing Apigee.
• Develop API proxies, shared flows, reusable policies, and reference integration patterns.
• Implement API lifecycle management practices including versioning, deployment, documentation, and retirement.
• Support adoption of API-first architecture principles across engineering teams.
• Ensure platform scalability, resiliency, performance, and availability requirements are achieved.

API Gateway Administration

• Configure and manage Apigee organizations, environments, environment groups, and deployments.
• Administer IAM, RBAC, service accounts, certificates, and platform security configurations.
• Design and implement routing, traffic control, rate limiting, load balancing, and policy enforcement mechanisms.
• Support gateway upgrades, platform maintenance, and operational governance requirements.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive root cause analysis activities.

Additional Responsibilities

Cloud, DevOps & Platform Automation

• Design and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions supporting API platform operations.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines for API deployment and lifecycle automation.
• Implement automated testing, validation, quality controls, and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineering teams to ensure platform reliability and operational efficiency.
• Promote platform portability and standards-based deployment practices.

Security & Governance

• Implement enterprise API security controls and standards.
• Configure OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT validation, encryption, and threat protection policies.
• Manage certificate lifecycle and secure connectivity patterns.
• Participate in Architecture Review Board (ARB) activities and architecture reviews.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, audit, and governance requirements.

Continued Responsibilities

Observability & Operational Excellence

• Implement monitoring, telemetry, alerting, and logging standards across the API platform.
• Support observability solutions utilizing tools such as Grafana and OpenTelemetry.
• Develop dashboards and operational metrics supporting platform health and business insights.
• Monitor and improve SLA, SLO, reliability, and performance objectives.
• Drive automation initiatives that reduce operational overhead and incident volume.

Developer Experience & Platform Enablement

• Support implementation and administration of API developer portal capabilities.
• Enable self-service API onboarding and API discovery experiences.
• Create standards, templates, and reusable artifacts for engineering teams.
• Partner with application development teams to accelerate API adoption.
• Support internal and external integration initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Success Measures

• Successful implementation and operation of TBC's enterprise API platform.
• Reliable and secure API gateway operations.
• Increased API platform adoption across engineering teams.
• Efficient and automated deployment processes.
• Achievement of platform availability and performance targets.
• Positive developer experience through portal, onboarding, and self-service capabilities.
• Reduced operational incidents through observability and automation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of software engineering, integration engineering, or platform engineering experience
• 3+ years hands-on API management platform experience with Apigee
• Experience adminstering enterprise-grade API platforms
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
• Strong understanding of API security, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, TLS, and certificate management
• Experience supporting highly available production platforms
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Technical Skills

• Apigee, REST APIs, OpenAPI / Swagger, API Lifecycle Management, API Product Management, API Developer Portals
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Infrastructure as Code
• OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, TLS/SSL, Certificate Management
• Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Logging and Monitoring Platforms, API Analytics
• Java, JavaScript, Python, Shell Scripting

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS API Gateway experience.
• Multi-cloud platform experience.
• Terraform experience.
• Kubernetes and container platform experience.
• Experience with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and enterprise observability tooling.
• Experience supporting external partner integrations and B2B APIs.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms.
• Experience migrating API platforms between vendors or cloud providers.
• Experience supporting large-scale digital transformation programs.
• Bilingual language skills in Spanish / English are a plus

Benefits

• Market competitive compensation
• 401(k) and Roth with company match. Immediate 100% vesting
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental and vision
• Company paid short term disability and employer subsidized long term disability
• Company paid life insurance
• Discounted tire purchasing
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Generous paid vacation and paid time off
• Customizable voluntary benefits
• and More!!!