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Role: Java with API
Location: Tampa, FL /Chicago, IL/Onsite
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As an API Designer, you will be responsible for designing, documenting, and evolving robust, scalable, and user-friendly APIs. As a Senior Lead Software Engineer within
Commercial and Investment Banking team, you will play a key role in an agile team dedicated to building, enhancing, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products. You will leverage your deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills to address complex challenges across multiple technologies and applications, driving significant business impact through your contributions.
Key Responsibilities:
- API Design: Design RESTful, GRPC, and/or event-driven APIs using best practices and industry standards (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger, AsyncAPI).
- Documentation: Create and maintain clear, comprehensive API documentation and usage guides.
- Collaboration: Work with product, engineering, and Architect teams to gather requirements and translate them into API specifications.
- Standards & Governance: Define and enforce API design standards, style guides, and governance processes.
- Prototyping: Build API prototypes and mock servers to validate designs and facilitate early feedback.
- Developer Experience: Advocate for and implement features that improve the developer experience, such as versioning, error handling, and discoverability.
- Lifecycle Management: Support the full API lifecycle, including versioning, deprecation, and backward compatibility.
- Quality Assurance: Collaborate with QA and development teams to ensure APIs are well-tested and meet performance, security, and reliability standards.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with API trends, tools, and technologies, and drive continuous improvement in API design practices.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, with 10+ years of applied experience
- Strong understanding of REST, GRPC, and/or event-driven API paradigms
- Proficiency with API specification tools (OpenAPI/Swagger, RAML, AsyncAPI, Postman, etc.)
- Experience with API gateways, management platforms, and developer portals
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Familiarity with security best practices (OAuth2, JWT, API keys, etc.)
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AWS (EKS)
- Knowledge of Micro Services & Domain Driven architecture
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated API testing
- Contributions to open-source API tools or standards
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