What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Integration Developer position at ABRAMS?
If you're looking to grow your career at a company where creativity meets legacy, ABRAMS is the place for you. As a trailblazer in illustrated publishing since 1949, ABRAMS continues to set the standard for beautifully crafted books across art, design, culture, and children’s literature. We’re looking for an Application Integration Developer to join our IT team.
This role will focus on designing, building, and supporting integrations and automations that move data between internal and external systems. The ideal candidate will help enable reliable, secure data exchange across business platforms while supporting the stability and performance of integration solutions.
What You’d Be Doing
The base salary range for this position is ($95,000 to $105,000) per year. The final offer will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications.
What We Offer
Founded in 1949 as the first U.S. publisher to specialize in art and illustrated books, ABRAMS has a long-standing reputation for publishing visually stunning, critically acclaimed, and bestselling works. Today, ABRAMS continues to lead in the creation and distribution of high-quality books across a wide range of categories—including art, photography, design, fashion, entertainment, cooking, craft, and popular culture—as well as award-winning children’s and young adult titles under imprints such as Abrams Books for Young Readers, Amulet Books, and Abrams Appleseed.
Headquartered in the creative heart of New York City, ABRAMS is home to a passionate team of editors, designers, marketers, and publishing professionals who bring bold ideas to life in collaboration with celebrated authors, artists, chefs, photographers, and cultural icons. Our books are distributed globally and have helped shape conversations in classrooms, kitchens, museums, and living rooms around the world.
ABRAMS is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion—both in the stories we publish and in the culture we foster. Through programs like the ABRAMS Amplify Award, we uplift and support underrepresented voices in children’s publishing. Internally, we promote inclusive hiring practices and an environment where employees of all identities, backgrounds, and lived experiences are encouraged to bring their full selves to work.
At ABRAMS, creativity, integrity, and collaboration are the foundation of everything we do. If you’re inspired by books that make a difference and want to be part of a team that values art, impact, and inclusion, we invite you to join us. Learn more at abramsbooks.com.
This role will focus on designing, building, and supporting integrations and automations that move data between internal and external systems. The ideal candidate will help enable reliable, secure data exchange across business platforms while supporting the stability and performance of integration solutions.
What You’d Be Doing
- Responsible for delivering and supporting integration solutions (file transfers, ETL, and API-based integrations) that enable reliable data exchange across business systems.
- Build and maintain integrations across internal and external systems using APIs, ETL processes, and file-based data transfers.
- Develop and support automated workflows that move, transform, and validate data between applications while ensuring reliability and data integrity.
- Troubleshoot integration failures, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventative fixes to improve system stability.
- Apply secure integration practices, including encryption, least privilege access controls, and secure handling of sensitive data.
- Partner with business teams to gather requirements and translate business needs into technical integration solutions.
- Develop lightweight web applications or automation tools to support ERP systems and other business workflows.
- Monitor and maintain existing integrations to ensure uptime, performance, and accurate data synchronization across systems.
- Maintain technical documentation including integration specifications, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Use Git-based version control and participate in code reviews and standard SDLC practices for development, testing, and deployment.
- Support system upgrades, testing cycles, vendor integrations, and production releases as needed.
- Identify opportunities to improve integrations and automate business processes to increase efficiency across departments.
- 1–3 years of experience developing and supporting integrations, automation workflows, or data pipelines.
- Working knowledge of integration approaches, including file-based transfers, ETL processes, and REST API integrations.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or JavaScript.
- Strong SQL skills, including querying, transforming, and troubleshooting data within relational databases.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills with the ability to diagnose integration and data flow issues.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams and business stakeholders.
- Experience using version control tools such as Git or GitHub.
- Experience with automation tools such as PowerShell or Power Automate.
- Experience working with API development or testing tools.
- Familiarity with business intelligence tools such as Power BI.
- Experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience integrating with or supporting NetSuite ERP systems.
- Experience working with Microsoft Azure services.
The base salary range for this position is ($95,000 to $105,000) per year. The final offer will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications.
What We Offer
- Generous paid holidays and Summer Fridays.
- Company-paid year-end office closure between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day each year
- Comprehensive health benefits, including short-term and long-term disability.
- Retirement savings (401k) and life insurance.
- Vacation, Personal, and Sick time off.
Founded in 1949 as the first U.S. publisher to specialize in art and illustrated books, ABRAMS has a long-standing reputation for publishing visually stunning, critically acclaimed, and bestselling works. Today, ABRAMS continues to lead in the creation and distribution of high-quality books across a wide range of categories—including art, photography, design, fashion, entertainment, cooking, craft, and popular culture—as well as award-winning children’s and young adult titles under imprints such as Abrams Books for Young Readers, Amulet Books, and Abrams Appleseed.
Headquartered in the creative heart of New York City, ABRAMS is home to a passionate team of editors, designers, marketers, and publishing professionals who bring bold ideas to life in collaboration with celebrated authors, artists, chefs, photographers, and cultural icons. Our books are distributed globally and have helped shape conversations in classrooms, kitchens, museums, and living rooms around the world.
ABRAMS is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion—both in the stories we publish and in the culture we foster. Through programs like the ABRAMS Amplify Award, we uplift and support underrepresented voices in children’s publishing. Internally, we promote inclusive hiring practices and an environment where employees of all identities, backgrounds, and lived experiences are encouraged to bring their full selves to work.
At ABRAMS, creativity, integrity, and collaboration are the foundation of everything we do. If you’re inspired by books that make a difference and want to be part of a team that values art, impact, and inclusion, we invite you to join us. Learn more at abramsbooks.com.
Salary : $95,000 - $105,000