Professional, Sr. API Engineer

MVP Health Care • Schenectady, NY

5d • $93,667 - $124,577 • Hybrid

About The Position

Join MVP Health Care in shaping the future of health care by embracing innovation, championing equity, and continuously improving how we serve our communities. Our team is powered by curious, humble, and committed individuals. For over 40 years, we've offered high-quality health plans and partnered with forward-thinking organizations to deliver more personalized, equitable, and accessible care. As a not-for-profit, we invest in our customers, communities, and team. This role offers growth opportunities, a people-centric culture, competitive compensation, and the chance to shape health care delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 3–7+ years of software engineering experience with API development
• Experience supporting enterprise integration, microservices, or distributed systems
• Strong experience with API technologies (REST, GraphQL, JSON, XML)
• Proficiency in one or more languages (Java, .NET, Python, Node.js)
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred for MVP alignment)
• Familiarity with API gateways, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices
• Exposure to AI/ML concepts and integration patterns (model serving, inference APIs)

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable RESTful and GraphQL APIs supporting enterprise applications and integrations
• Define API specifications, contracts, data models, and versioning strategies to ensure consistency and reusability
• Build high-performance, secure, and reusable API services aligned with microservices and cloud architecture
• Design and integrate APIs that expose and consume AI/ML services, including predictive models and NLP solutions
• Enable intelligent automation, personalization, and data-driven use cases through API and AI integration
• Integrate APIs with backend systems, data platforms, and third-party services to support digital transformation initiatives
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and data teams to translate business and AI use cases into scalable solutions
• Implement API security standards, including OAuth2 and JWT, ensuring data privacy, access control, and compliance with governance policies
• Optimize API performance, reliability, and scalability, including latency-aware design for real-time and batch AI workloads
• Develop and maintain API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger) and establish standards for API design, lifecycle management, and governance
• Contribute to our humble pursuit of excellence by performing various responsibilities that may arise, reflecting our collective goal of enhancing healthcare delivery and being the difference for the customer.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits focused on well-being
• Growth opportunities to uplevel your career
• A people-centric culture embracing and celebrating diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences within our team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior