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.

- Experience with OAuth providers and identity platforms.

- 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.

Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play - such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more.

Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans.

The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best.

Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.

For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com .

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