Job#: 3058157 Job Description: Senior Java API Engineer
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina (Remote)
Role Overview
An experienced Senior Java API Engineer is required to support a large enterprise financial services organization. This position focuses on building, enhancing, and modernizing the API and integration ecosystem. The responsibilities involve hands-on engineering with a strong emphasis on Core Java, Java microservices, API development, and enterprise integration. The engineer will support ongoing business initiatives and a broader API modernization strategy, including migrating legacy integration and gateway technologies toward a standardized enterprise architecture.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, enhance, and support Java-based APIs and microservices.
- Configure and maintain API gateway policies, routing, transformations, mediation, and traffic management.
- Build and maintain RESTful services and enterprise integrations connecting internal applications, external business partners, and third-party platforms.
- Analyze existing API implementations and migrate API gateway functionality from legacy platforms to Layer7.
- Implement API security policies including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, and threat protection.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, security teams, and DevOps teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
- Troubleshoot performance, scalability, reliability, and security issues.
- Contribute to API governance, engineering standards, documentation, and reusable development practices.
Required Qualifications
Education: A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field is preferred.
Experience: Minimum of 7 years of software engineering or application development experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on Java development and 3 years of experience with Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway.
Technical Skills: Proficient in Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful API development. Experienced with relational databases, SQL, and Git-based development workflows. Skilled in implementing API security standards, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, and Mutual TLS (mTLS). Competent with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with MuleSoft-to-Layer7 migrations and enterprise API gateway modernization initiatives.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.
- Experience within the banking or financial services industry.
- Understanding of Kafka or event-driven architecture.
- Experience with Enterprise IAM integrations, including Okta, Ping, or Microsoft Entra ID.
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