
API Engagement Engineer
Synchrony
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $115,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
JavaJavaScriptJenkinsNode.jsSOAPSpring
About the role
- Advocate the Application & Service development teams across the organization, managing multiple teams actively working at once
- Provide best practices for REST API development, and provide solutions for highly complex multi-service application implementations
- Designing and reviewing API specifications for REST best practices
- Teaching teams to utilize our new suite of API development tools
- Providing architectural guidance for API & Application development across Synchrony
- Helping teams understand how to leverage the API Gateway to their benefit and promote best practices for Microservice/SOA application development
- Learning Synchrony’s domains and assisting teams to promote their APIs to the level of Enterprise & Productize APIs for wide market consumption
- Performing other duties and/or special projects as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related degree with 3-5 years of Modern Application Development experience or, in lieu of degree, 5-7 years of Modern Application Development experience
- 3+ years in API development using Apigee (preferred) or any other similar API Gateway Product
- Strong Technical Expertise in Java Spring, Node JS, REST, SOAP, Swagger Hub (JSON/YAML)
- Strong Experience with Agile application development and familiarity with tools like JIRA, Bitbucket
- Strong Experience with continuous integration environments and using tools like Jenkins
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical peers
- Strong cross-functional team player with the ability to work seamlessly across a matrix organization
- Strong attention to detail in a team environment
- Strong oral and written communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to analyze, use structured problem solving and available tools to troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, action plans, impact and resolution options
- Passionate to learn and understand diversified business domains and technologies
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and frameworks.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development
- Annual bonus based on individual and company performance
- Support for learning diversified business domains and technologies
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Hard skills
API developmentJava SpringNode JSRESTSOAPSwagger HubAgile application developmentcontinuous integrationJenkinsApigee
Soft skills
communication skillscross-functional team playerattention to detailanalytical skillsproblem-solving skillsability to learn new technologiesability to work in a teamability to work across a matrix organizationstructured problem solvingpassion for learning
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science