Senior API Platform Engineer – Apigee Expert (Remote)

Ignite Banking; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ignite Banking is seeking a Senior Staff API Engineer with deep hands-on Apigee experience to lead API platform design for digital banking. You will design, build, and operate API proxies, security policies, and traffic management, while also developing Java-based microservices.

This hands-on development lead role will guide engagement standards, work across client teams, and support modernization to an API-first architecture.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Apigee experience with API proxies, policies and gateway design.
• 5+ years building Java microservices (Spring Boot) for banking/fintech.
• Experience with API gateway patterns and integration platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Apigee proxies, security policies, and traffic management.
• Develop Java microservices to support digital banking use cases.
• Lead client engagements, define integration approaches, and set standards.
• Migrate legacy patterns to API-first architectures and ensure performance.
• Collaborate with cloud teams on Azure/Kubernetes deployments.

Skills

Apigee & API Gateway

Java microservices

API design

Security policies

Consulting experience

Tools

IBM DataPower

Azure

AKS/Kubernetes

Observability tools

Job description

Ignite Banking is seeking a Senior Staff API Engineer with deep hands-on Apigee experience to lead API platform design for digital banking. You will design, build, and operate API proxies, security policies, and traffic management, while also developing Java-based microservices.

This hands-on development lead role will guide engagement standards, work across client teams, and support modernization to an API-first architecture.