Senior API & Microservices Engineer | Hybrid Role

GreatAmerica Financial Services; Cedar Rapids (IA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangements

Service Awards

Paid Parking

Business casual environment

Strong organizational culture

Job summary

GreatAmerica Financial Services in Cedar Rapids, IA, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and implement services and APIs across diverse business needs. You will contribute to a collaborative agile team, mentor others, and drive excellence in integration solutions.

The role requires 8+ years of software engineering, strong OO design, API development, and hands-on expertise with C#, Swagger/OAS, and modern testing tools. Hybrid work option available.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience as a software engineer with recent focus on developing services and APIs.
• 8+ years’ experience with object-oriented principals, solution design, automated testing, validation, and error handling.
• 8+ years’ experience with SQL-based databases and SQL programming skills.
• 5+ years’ experience working in Agile development environment.
• 5+ years’ experience with Swagger or OAS and developing APIs based on the specification.
• 5+ years’ experience with C# or similar object-oriented programming language.
• 5+ years’ experience with Postman and other Integration testing tools.
• 3+ years’ experience with Event-Driven Architecture and creation of event publishers and subscribers.
• 3+ years’ experience with AsyncAPI specifications and developing APIs based on the specification.
• 3+ years of working in and with Salesforce platform and ecosystem.
• Experience with implementing and consuming microservices.
• Experience with Azure, MuleSoft, or similar API gateway technologies preferred.
• Ability to read, use and produce system design artifacts such as flowcharts and wireframes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, implement, and maintain services and APIs
• Troubleshoot, debug, and implement fixes in the existing applications, services, and APIs
• Document and build application code based on best practices and engineering principles defined by our software engineering community and Integration Platform team
• Understand and engage in the broader context of the business “why” and needs behind the code
• Contribute ideas on best practices and process improvements to the software engineering team in GreatAmerica
• Actively participate in design/architectural discussions, reviewing user stories, providing technical solutions and related acceptance criteria and dependencies
• Sprint demos, and daily standups of corresponding product teams
• Participate in agile product teams to build quality products for consistency, robustness, and scalability
• Deploy, and manage services and APIs in different environments using CI/CD
• Create and maintain automated tests at the integration and unit levels
• Perform peer code reviews
• Present new services and APIs developed to the team and stakeholders
• Answer qualified support calls from users
• Work closely with architects to define processes and technologies to be implemented by all developers
• Determine coding best practices and process improvements
• Enforce coding standards and best practices to ensure only quality code is promoted to higher environments.
• Train, coach, and mentor other Software Engineers and interns

Skills

Full-stack development

API design

CI/CD

Code reviews

Mentoring

Agile

Swagger/OAS

C#

Postman

Event-Driven Architecture

AsyncAPI

Salesforce ecosystem

Microservices

Azure/MuleSoft/API gateways

Education

Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Postman

Azure

MuleSoft

API gateway technologies

Job description

GreatAmerica Financial Services in Cedar Rapids, IA, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and implement services and APIs across diverse business needs. You will contribute to a collaborative agile team, mentor others, and drive excellence in integration solutions.

The role requires 8+ years of software engineering, strong OO design, API development, and hands-on expertise with C#, Swagger/OAS, and modern testing tools. Hybrid work option available.