Software Engineer Senior-API Developer
About The Position
At PNC, the Software Engineer Senior-API Developer role within the Technology organization is crucial for delivering the best customer experience. This position is based in Dallas, TX, Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland, OH, Birmingham, AL, or Denver, CO, and operates within an in-office company culture that promotes employee growth and work-life balance. The role involves providing detailed technical design and development of software solutions using current and new technologies, proposing and designing solutions for complex business needs, writing, testing, and deploying software, and preparing technical documentation. Responsibilities also include maintaining and debugging software. Employees are expected to be customer-focused, understanding and aligning with customer needs, and adept at managing risks in line with PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework. PNC does not offer sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Java backend development, with deep experience using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud to build enterprise-grade, production-ready APIs.
- Extensive experience designing and developing microservices architectures, including service decomposition, inter-service communication, resilience patterns, and backward-compatible API versioning.
- Hands-on experience deploying and running microservices on OpenShift/Kubernetes, including containerization (Docker), configuration management, scaling, and environment-specific deployments (DEV, QA, UAT, PROD).
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles, including contract-first development, OpenAPI/Swagger documentation, proper HTTP semantics, and standardized error handling.
- Experience integrating backend APIs with mobile platforms (iOS and Android), ensuring performance, reliability, and secure data exchange for customer-facing mobile applications.
- Strong knowledge of API security, including OAuth2, JWT, mutual TLS, client credentials, token management, and secure access patterns required in regulated banking environments.
- Familiarity with API gateways and edge services, such as routing, throttling, authentication, logging, and monitoring of mobile-facing APIs.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for Java microservices, including automated builds, testing, quality gates, and deployment to OpenShift.
- Proven ability to support APIs through the full lifecycle, from development and testing through production releases, post-deployment monitoring, and defect remediation.
- Experience working in large-scale enterprise and financial systems, with awareness of compliance, audit requirements, and high-availability expectations.
- Strong collaboration skills, working closely with mobile app teams, QA, product owners, and platform teams during feature delivery, redesign initiatives, and coordinated releases.
- A university / college degree, with 3+ years of relevant / direct industry experience. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.
- Bachelors degree
- No Required Certification(s)
- Candidates being considered for this position will be subject to additional background checks as established by the specific government client contract.
Nice To Haves
- API Development
- API Gateway
- Application Development
- Business Management
- CI/CD
- Customer Solutions
- Design
- Group Problem Solving
- Process Improvements
- Release Management
- RESTful APIs
- Software Solutions
- User Experience (UX) Design
Responsibilities
- Provides detailed technical design and development of software solutions using existing and emerging technology platforms.
- Proposes & designs software solutions to address complex business needs.
- Writes code, tests and deploys software.
- Prepares technical and procedural documentation required for software.
- Maintains and debugs software.
- Be Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
- Be Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
Benefits
- medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
- dental and vision options
- employee and spouse/child life insurance
- short and long-term disability protection
- 401(k) with PNC match
- pension and stock purchase plans
- dependent care reimbursement account
- back-up child/elder care
- adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
- educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
- a robust wellness program with financial incentives
- maternity and/or parental leave
- up to 11 paid holidays each year
- 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
- between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
