AVP, API Engineer

This position is remote, with the option to work from home. On occasion, you may be requested to commute to the nearest office for in-person engagement activities such as team meetings, training, and culture events. To ensure the safety of colleagues and communities, employees who come together in-person must be fully vaccinated.

Responsibilities

• Influence many agile development teams through all phases of the Agile development life cycle through SAFe.
• Implement new technologies and assist developers as they migrate to new technologies.
• Architect applications across the full stack; experience in PCF, Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem, J2EE, Spring Java, and RESTful APIs is required.
• Design data models to support complex business processes.
• Drive a CI/CD strategy using Jenkins, Bitbucket, and uDeploy.
• Influence and collaborate with software developers, UX designers, product managers, application architects, and customer application experts to create applications.
• Mentor and influence all levels of the team, including leadership both up and down the chain of command.
• Ensure compliance with architecture, security, and technology standards set by Synchrony.
• Assist in crafting and maintaining the future state technology architectural strategy, along with application modernization and migration roadmap.
• Participate in Agile scrums consisting of cross-functional teams.
• Lead Agile sprints as the technical expert, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog grooming sessions, and sprint reviews.
• Ensure application code quality through development, test, and QA.
• Participate in addressing root cause analyses, incident reports, and provide direction in problem resolution.
• Analyze production defects, troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, and implement fixes.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support periodically throughout the year.
• Identify ways to increase efficiency and improve system performance.
• Work with third-party vendors to develop software and/or integrate their software into the company's products.
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 8 years of experience with software engineering OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED with 10 years of experience with software engineering.
• Minimum 6 years of application development experience.
• Spring Boot and Spring Cloud development background.
• Critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required.

Qualifications

• Experience building and consuming web services via SOAP and REST.
• Expertise with continuous integration environments.
• Experience with writing unit, integration, and UI test cases.
• Deep experience with responsive web design principles and cross-device support.
• Strong experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Knowledge in using Splunk for production support.
• Experience with Database Architecture, Modeling, and familiarity with MySQL & SQL, Gemfire.
• Familiarity with JSON, REST, and XML-based web services.
• Working knowledge of the overall mobile industry.
• Excellence in technical communication with technical and non-technical peers.
• Strong cross-functional team player with the ability to work seamlessly across a matrix organization and partner with global development companies.
• Desire to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Experience developing and supporting financial/banking applications.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence clients, team members, management, and external groups.
• Excellent attention to detail in a team environment.
• Strong oral and written communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience utilizing Dev AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot).
• Ability to analyze, use structured problem-solving, and available tools to troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, action plans, impact, and resolution options.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $115,000 - $200,000 USD annually and is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance. Actual compensation offered within the posted salary range will be based on work experience, skill level, or knowledge. Salaries are adjusted according to market in CA, NY Metro, and Seattle.

Schedule

This role offers flexibility with the option to work from home. You will be required to commute to the nearest hub (either virtual or physical) for in-person engagement activities such as regular business or team meetings, training, and culture events.

Eligibility Requirements

• You must be 18 years or older.
• You must have a high school diploma or equivalent.
• You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation, and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process.
• You must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.