Remote Senior API Engineer, Cloud-Migration for Payments

First Citizens Bank; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – API Development & Cloud Migration to help design, modernize, migrate, and support enterprise APIs across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms.

The role focuses on cloud-native, scalable API-driven solutions, hands-on AWS, Java/Spring Boot, microservices, and secure coding practices, with involvement through architecture to production support.

Qualifications

• Requirements include a Bachelor's Degree with 4+ years in software development or an equivalent top level experience.
• Alternative: High School Diploma or GED with 8+ years of software development and maintenance experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, secure, and scale APIs and microservices for Payments, Money Movement, and Reporting.
• Modernize and migrate APIs and integrations from on-prem to AWS cloud-native architectures.
• Build cloud-native solutions using AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, and S3.
• Develop RESTful APIs with Java, Spring Boot, and AWS native tech following enterprise standards.
• Support existing APIs by troubleshooting, enhancing resilience, and improving performance.
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and manage CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

API development

Microservices

Cloud migration

AWS

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

RESTful APIs

API security

Cloud-native design

Kafka

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Terraform

Docker

OpenShift

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

AWS services

API Gateway

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – API Development & Cloud Migration to help design, modernize, migrate, and support enterprise APIs across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms.

The role focuses on cloud-native, scalable API-driven solutions, hands-on AWS, Java/Spring Boot, microservices, and secure coding practices, with involvement through architecture to production support.