Python API Engineer

We are looking for strong collaborators who deliver reliable, secure, and high-quality API solutions in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Ideal candidates pursue technical excellence, act with integrity, and are motivated to build scalable platforms that enable business growth. We value continuous improvement, curiosity, and individuals who take ownership and pride in their work.

- Minimum of 7 years of experience in s oftware engineering, cloud application engineering, API engineering, platform engineering, or related technical roles.

- Hands-on experience with Python development, REST APIs, AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM, S3), and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.

- Experience developing, validating, supporting, or operating APIs and cloud-native applications in large-scale production environments.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, automated testing, and deployment automation tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.

- Working knowledge of SQL, data validation, data profiling, system integrations, and enterprise application support.

- API Design Mindset - builds clean, consistent, and consumer-friendly APIs.

- Builder Mindset - emphasizes automation, reuse, and simplicity.

- Systems Thinking - understands how APIs integrate with distributed systems.

- Collaboration - works effectively across engineering, security, and platform teams.

- Ownership & Accountability - takes responsibility for design, delivery, and reliability.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master's preferred).

- Strong understanding of application monitoring, observability, logging, alerting, resiliency, and operational support.

- Experience troubleshooting production issues, conducting root cause analysis, and supporting release and deployment activities.

- Experience collaborating across application, platform, cloud, security, middleware, and data engineering teams.

- Financial services, wealth management, or banking industry experience preferred.

- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and secure API design.

- Familiarity with AWS SAM or Serverless Framework (tooling experience).

- Exposure to event-driven architectures (EventBridge, SNS/SQS).

- Experience operating APIs in regulated or enterprise environments (financial services preferred).

- Knowledge of observability tools such as CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Datadog, OpenTelemetry.

- Experience designing reusable API frameworks or shared libraries.