Description

You will design, build, and maintain enterprise-scale REST, GraphQL, XML, and event-driven APIs.

This role is remote.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce API contracts, schemas, and versioning strategies across product teams.
• Champion API-first development practices and improve developer experience organization-wide.
• Integrate patterns using enterprise message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and API gateways (Kong, AWS API Gateway, MuleSoft).
• Design and govern event-driven and microservices architectures within a banking context.
• Establish an API Center of Excellence (CoE) defining governance policies and lifecycle procedures.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an API architecture role.
• Expert knowledge of RESTful API principles, OpenAPI/Swagger 3.x, and JSON:API standards.
• Proficiency in Java, Springboot, Kotlin, Python, Node.js, and Linux.
• Proven experience with API gateway configuration, rate limiting, and traffic management.
• Hands-on experience with SOA, microservices, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Experience with OAuth 2.0, SAML, and JWT for API authentication.
• Familiarity with cloud-native API solutions on AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Knowledge of observability tools including Splunk and Prometheus.

Preferred Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degrees