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Job Title: MuleSoft Developer
Location: NYC, NY (Hybrid)
Duration: 6 to 8 Months
Job Description:
We are seeking a MuleSoft Developer to support the design, development, and delivery of enterprise integrations and APIs using the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. The ideal candidate has experience with API‑led connectivity, secure API design, and modern integration patterns, and is comfortable working in a fast-paced Agile environment.
Day-to-Day (Agile Delivery Workflow)
In an Agile workstream, the MuleSoft Developer participates across the full integration lifecycle. Typical daily activities include:
- Reviewing intake notes, user stories, and acceptance criteria provided by Product Owners or Business Analysts.
- Collaborating with the integration architect, lead developer, and business stakeholders to refine requirements and translate them into clear technical specifications.
- Participating in design sessions to help shape the API/interface contracts (RAML), data mappings, integration flows, and sequence diagrams.
- Receiving finalized technical designs and API specifications and building MuleSoft integrations based on those artifacts.
- Developing, unit testing, and validating Mule applications within the sprint, ensuring adherence to established integration patterns and development standards.
- Attending Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint demos, retrospectives).
- Supporting QA during integration and system testing by troubleshooting defects and providing clarifications.
- Assisting with deployment activities across environments and ensuring smooth handoff to support teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain MuleSoft integrations and APIs using Anypoint Studio and the Anypoint Platform.
- Build and maintain RAML specifications for APIs following API‑led connectivity principles (System/API/Experience layers).
- Implement secure API designs leveraging OAuth 2.0, TLS/mTLS, client ID enforcement, and MuleSoft security best practices.
- Integrate with REST and SOAP services, SaaS applications, databases, and legacy systems.
- Work with messaging platforms and implement asynchronous/event‑driven patterns using JMS, Anypoint MQ, Kafka, or similar technologies.
- Apply MuleSoft integration patterns, including transformation, routing, orchestration, and standardized error handling frameworks.
- Work with JSON, XML, CSV, and other data formats; implement Anirbantransformations.
- Configure and manage APIs in Anypoint API Manager, including applying governance and security policies.
- Perform unit testing (e.g., MUnit), debugging, and performance tuning for Mule applications.
- Participate in code reviews, documentation reviews, and contribute to continuous improvement of integration standards.
- Maintain thorough technical documentation for integrations, API specifications, and deployment processes.
- Stay current with MuleSoft feature updates, new connectors, platform capabilities, and industry integration trends.
Must-Have Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years of software development experience.
- At least 1 year of hands-on experience with the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.
- Strong experience designing APIs and building RAML specifications.
- Experience working in an Agile (Scrum or SAFe) environment.
- Solid understanding of API security, governance, and policy enforcement.
- Experience with asynchronous processing, message queues, and event-driven integration.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns (EIPs) and best practices.
- Experience with REST/SOAP services, JSON, XML, and DataWeave transformations.
Preferred Qualifications
- MuleSoft Certified Developer – Level 1 (MCD).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience with logging/monitoring tools (CloudHub logs, Splunk, Datadog, AppDynamics, etc.).