Solutions Engineer

ABOUT GRAVITEE In 2015, four developers met while working on API strategy and implementation. The API world and API platforms were unnecessarily complex and no powerful open source solutions existed. Together, they decided to build a complete API platform providing business owners effortless control over their entire API ecosystem.Gravitee.io is the leading open-source API platform, enabling worldwide developers and business users to build, manage and monitor their APIs. As a team, we are driven by the purpose of giving customers effortless control over their growing API ecosystem and a strong belief in the ethos of open source. By understanding customers’ connectivity challenges and anticipating their needs, we provide the most intuitive platform. We are growing rapidly and we are looking for exceptional people who are excited to join us on this career-defining journey.

THE ROLE & WHY IT EXISTS Gravitee.io is taking APIs to the next level — we are the premier, open-source  API platform and we want everyone to know how amazing our software is. To make this happen, we need someone passionate, ambitious, curious, and competitive looking to help our business and play a fundamental role in building something special. This is where you come in.

We are expanding globally to serve the needs of our large International clients who are predominantly in banking, healthcare, insurance, and more. Gravitee is the natural force of connection within the API space — join Gravitee.io and connect with your ideal opportunity. As a Solution Engineer in the sales organisation, you will be talking to prospective clients to understand their current challenges, deliver tailored demos to show how Gravitee can address those challenges, you will be driving technical conversations with developers and architects to position Gravitee as the best technical fit and contribute to internal and external content like blog articles, videos, etc.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Engage with customers to understand challenges, goals and existing technical landscape
• Deliver demonstrations, workshops, proof-of-concepts and content to help customers define, evaluate and implement solutions to their problems
• Act as evangelist and subject matter expert on Gravitee’s platform, product strategy and API management best practises
• Collaborate on content creation, webinar presentations and conferences

ESSENTIAL SKILLS - The right candidate will possess at least the following skills, if not more:

• Some coding or scripting experience (e.g Java, Python, JavaScript)
• Strong understanding of REST, JSON, XML, CI/CD concepts and bash/shell
• Foundational understanding of OAuth2, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka and GraphQL
• Experience with at least one of AWS, Azure and GCP
• Excellent communication skills and ability to present advanced technical topics to a variety of audiences
• Hunger and passion to explore, learn and master new technologies
• Mentality to win and becoming the best on what you do

DESIRED SKILLS - Additionally, these skills are not required, but preferable:

• Experience with API management, API gateway and event broker technologies
• Experience in technical customer facing roles in either customer success, professional services or solutions engineering roles
• Experience with AI/LLM technologies and frameworks
• Experience with Identity and Access Management solutions
• European language skills are always a plus

AT GRAVITEE, YOU’LL GET…

• Excellent medical coverage to keep your body and mind healthy
• Pension and 401k program options for all locations
• Stock option plan for employees
• 25 days holiday/vacation in addition to in-country national holidays as well
• 3 mental health days per year with an allowance toward a mood-boosting activity of your choice
• Birthday off to celebrate your day
• Learn and grow with our professional development allowance to be used to benefit your career
• Quarterly outings and an annual offsites in an exciting location!
• Hybrid culture with options to go in to an office in one of our hubs
• Ability to work for one of the fastest-growing companies and alongside some of the most talented people in the API technology sector
• A meaningful, progressive, global company culture that is as fun as it is hardworking
• Endless growth opportunities