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About the Role
Seeking a Software Engineer II – API Development & Cloud Migration to design, develop, modernize, migrate, and support enterprise APIs. This role is critical in transforming legacy services into cloud-native, scalable API-driven solutions, enabling seamless integration across systems. The ideal candidate will have experience in API development, microservices, and cloud migration strategies, with strong hands-on experience in AWS. Responsibilities include designing and delivering secure, high-performance APIs, migrating services to AWS, and translating business requirements into resilient cloud-native solutions. This role requires active involvement throughout the API lifecycle, collaborating closely with various stakeholders.
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 2 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 6 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance.
- 2+ years of experience with enterprise-scale APIs utilizing AWS technologies such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, IAM, and KMS.
- 2+ years experience in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, RESTful API development, microservices architecture, API security, and cloud-native application design.
- 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
- Microservices Development
- Cloud Migration
- AWS
- 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
- Software Engineer II
- 2+ 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.