Senior API Platform Software Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Senior API Platform Software Engineer to join an API Ecosystem team supporting enterprise scale financial services applications. This role is focused on building and enhancing backend services, APIs, and API platform capabilities within a highly distributed, AWS based environment. The engineer will develop secure, scalable RESTful APIs and microservices while contributing across the API lifecycle, including implementation, versioning, security, performance, monitoring, and production support. You will work closely with Product, DevOps, Security, and Architecture teams in an Agile environment to deliver reliable API solutions that meet enterprise security, availability, and performance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop secure, scalable RESTful APIs and microservices in a distributed environment.
• Contribute across the API lifecycle, including implementation, versioning, security, performance, monitoring, and production support.
• Design and implement API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, and API key management.
• Work with API management and gateway technologies such as Apigee OPDK, Apigee X, or Apigee Hybrid.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, DevOps, Security, and Architecture in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Support full stack or platform development needs using JavaScript/TypeScript as needed.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience using Java (8–21) and/or Python.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs, backend services, and microservices in distributed environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, Route 53, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with API management and API gateway technologies, including Apigee OPDK, Apigee X, or Apigee Hybrid.
• Strong understanding of the API lifecycle, including versioning, security, throttling, traffic management, and analytics.
• Experience implementing API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, and API key management.
• Working knowledge of OpenAPI/Swagger; GraphQL experience is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling, including GitHub or GitLab and Terraform.
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes, particularly ECS and EKS in AWS environments.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as OpenTelemetry (OTEL), Splunk, and AWS CloudWatch.
• Understanding of load balancing, caching, high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery concepts.
• Experience working with both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly learn new technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.

Skills

• CloudFormation experience is beneficial.

Benefits

You will have the opportunity to work on high-impact cloud data initiatives supporting enterprise risk and analytics with one of the world's leading Fortune 500 companies. This role offers exposure to modern AWS technologies, complex data challenges, AI-enabled automation, and cross-functional collaboration within a major financial services environment.