Python API Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Software Engineer (Python / AWS) is a key member of the Data Modernization & Integration organization, responsible for building and supporting scalable cloud-native solutions that enable critical business platforms and enterprise integrations. This role combines Python development, AWS cloud engineering, API integration, automation, observability, and production support. The engineer will develop and maintain Python-based services and REST APIs, support cloud migration initiatives, implement monitoring and resiliency solutions, and help drive operational excellence across AWS-hosted applications. The ideal candidate brings strong experience with Python, REST APIs, AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch), Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise application support. Success in this role requires close collaboration with platform, data, security, middleware, and application teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions while modernizing legacy capabilities.
Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in software 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).
Nice To Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Python‑based REST APIs that support business‑critical workflows.
- Build APIs using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway, following API‑first and REST best practices.
- Implement clean, testable, and well‑documented Python code suitable for enterprise production environments.
- Optimize API performance, reliability, scalability, and error handling.
- Ensure proper API versioning, contract stability, and backward compatibility.
- Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth2, JWT, and IAM‑based access.
- Enforce API security controls including request validation, throttling, rate limiting, and auditing.
- Partner with security teams to ensure APIs meet enterprise security and compliance standards.
- Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
- Create and maintain reusable Terraform modules for: API Gateway, Lambda, IAM roles and policies, CloudWatch logging and monitoring.
- Ensure environment consistency across DEV, QA, UAT, and PROD.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deployment of Python APIs.
- Support automated testing, packaging, versioning, and release management.
- Implement observability through logging, metrics, alerts, and tracing.
- Participate in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and production support activities.
- Collaborate closely with application teams, platform engineering, cloud, and security teams.
- Align API design and implementation with enterprise architectural standards.
- Actively contribute to code reviews, design discussions, and technical documentation.
- Promote best practices and a culture of engineering excellence.
- Influence API engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the organization.
- Contribute to architectural reviews and modernization efforts.
- Help drive consistent, scalable, and maintainable cloud‑native API solutions.
Benefits
- 401K matching
- health benefits
- employee stock options
- paid time off
- volunteer time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
