Remote Java API Engineer II - Cloud-Native Microservices

First Citizens Bank; Scottsdale (AZ); Remote; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Software Engineer II to design, develop, and migrate enterprise APIs across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. You will build scalable, cloud-native APIs and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS, while modernizing legacy services and ensuring security and reliability.

You will work with architects, engineers, and product owners across on-call support, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools to deliver resilient solutions and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent and 2+ years in software development.
• Experience designing and building secure, scalable APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on with AWS services for cloud-native migrations and API modernization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support secure APIs and microservices for Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms.
• Migrate APIs from on-premise to AWS cloud-native architectures.
• Develop and maintain cloud-native solutions using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS technologies.

Skills

API development

Microservices

AWS

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

RESTful API

API security

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Kafka

OpenShift

Cloud migration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

2+ years in software development

Tools

API Gateway

Lambda

ECS

Step Functions

SQS

SNS

DynamoDB

RDS

S3

IAM

KMS

OpenShift

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Software Engineer II to design, develop, and migrate enterprise APIs across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. You will build scalable, cloud-native APIs and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS, while modernizing legacy services and ensuring security and reliability.

You will work with architects, engineers, and product owners across on-call support, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools to deliver resilient solutions and