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About the Role

Seeking a Senior Software Engineer – API Development & Cloud Migration to design, develop, modernize, migrate, and support enterprise APIs across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. This role is critical in transforming legacy services into cloud-native, scalable API-driven solutions and enabling seamless integration across systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and support secure, scalable, and high-performing APIs and microservices for Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms.
• Participate in the modernization and migration of APIs and integration services from on-premises environments to AWS cloud-native architectures.
• Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services including API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, IAM, KMS, and AWS Transfer Family.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS-native technologies while following enterprise architecture and security standards.
• Support and enhance existing API platforms by troubleshooting issues, implementing new functionality, improving resiliency, and optimizing performance.
• Develop and maintain event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka, Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS to support real-time payment and money movement processing.
• Build, deploy, and support containerized applications using OpenShift, Docker, and AWS ECS platforms.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, business partners, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Implement secure coding practices and API security controls including authentication, authorization, encryption, and secrets management.
• Optimize API performance, scalability, and reliability through performance tuning, monitoring, and proactive problem resolution.
• Participate in API migration activities, including legacy application assessment, refactoring, testing, deployment, and production cutover support.
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to automate provisioning and deployment of cloud resources.
• Implement and support CI/CD pipelines to enable automated build, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Utilize observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Grafana, and Splunk to monitor application health and troubleshoot production issues.
• Participate in on-call support, incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure platform stability and operational excellence.
• Contribute to code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices to improve software quality and maintainability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance.
• 3+ years of proven experience building and migrating enterprise-scale APIs utilizing AWS technologies such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, IAM, and KMS.
• 3+ years expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, RESTful API development, microservices architecture, API security, and cloud-native application design is required.
• Experience with Terraform, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and event-driven architectures is highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience leading API modernization and cloud migration initiatives, including decomposition of monolithic applications into microservices, is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and observability tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, Grafana, or similar platforms.

Skills

• API Development
• Cloud Migration
• AWS Technologies
• Microservices Development
• API Gateway
• Lambda
• ECS
• Step Functions
• SQS
• SNS
• DynamoDB
• RDS
• S3
• IAM
• KMS
• AWS Transfer Family
• Java
• Spring Boot
• RESTful APIs
• Apache Kafka
• OpenShift
• Docker
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD pipelines
• Event-driven architectures
• Dynatrace
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS X-Ray
• Grafana
• Splunk
• AppDynamics

Location

• AZ
• NC
• TX

Work Type

• Remote

Experience Level

• Senior
• 3+ years

Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree
• High School Diploma or GED

Benefits

• Competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program

About the Company

• First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates.