Senior API Platform Software Engineer

Senior API Platform Software Engineer
Fulltime
Hybrid – Knoxville, TN | Columbia, SC | Lafayette, LA | Birmingham, AL

Position Overview
Seeking a Senior API Platform Software Engineer to build and enhance backend services, APIs, and API platform capabilities within a highly distributed, AWS-based financial services environment.
This is a hands-on role requiring strong experience with Java and/or Python, REST APIs, Microservices, AWS, Apigee, API Security, and DevOps.
Key Responsibilities

• Develop secure and scalable RESTful APIs, backend services, and microservices.

• Support the complete API lifecycle including implementation, versioning, security, performance, monitoring, and production support.

• Develop applications using Java and/or Python.

• Build and support API management solutions using Apigee.

• Implement API security using OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, and API key management.

• Work with AWS cloud services and containerized platforms.

• Support CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, and observability.

• Troubleshoot API, cloud, application, and performance issues.

• Collaborate with Product, DevOps, Security, and Architecture teams.

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on development experience with Java 8–21 and/or Python.

• Strong experience with RESTful APIs, backend services, and microservices.

• Hands-on AWS experience including:

• EC2

• ECS

• EKS

• Lambda

• S3

• IAM

• Route 53

• CloudWatch

• Strong experience with Apigee OPDK, Apigee X, or Apigee Hybrid.

• Strong understanding of API lifecycle, versioning, throttling, traffic management, security, and analytics.

• API security experience with OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, and API Keys.

• Knowledge of OpenAPI / Swagger.

• Experience with GitHub or GitLab, Terraform, and CI/CD.

• Working knowledge of JavaScript / TypeScript.

• Experience with Kubernetes, ECS, and EKS.

• Monitoring experience with OpenTelemetry, Splunk, and CloudWatch.

• Knowledge of load balancing, caching, high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.

• Agile/Scrum experience.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• GraphQL.

• AWS CloudFormation.

Key Technologies

Java | Python | AWS | REST APIs | Microservices | Apigee | OAuth 2.0 | JWT | mTLS | OpenAPI | Swagger | ECS | EKS | Kubernetes | Terraform | GitHub | GitLab | OpenTelemetry | Splunk | CloudWatch | JavaScript | TypeScript | SQL | NoSQL

Education

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

The real hiring focus is Java/Python + API development + Apigee + AWS + API Security (OAuth/JWT/mTLS) + Microservices

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Why Join Us?

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

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