Sr Software Engineer (API & MCP Governance and Enablement)

U.S. Bank; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k)

Paid vacation

11 paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Job summary

U.S. Bank seeks a senior API and integration engineer to lead design, development, testing and maintenance of API products. You will own full stack delivery, drive architectural best practices, and ensure security and compliance across enterprise API standards.

This role requires 5+ years in API governance or related fields, expertise in REST, OpenAPI, and API management platforms, and strong technical documentation and collaboration skills. Hybrid work at a U.S. Bank location is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in API governance, architecture, or related disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, OpenAPI, authentication and error handling.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, operate and maintain API products.
• Own full stack responsibilities with production-ready code.
• Ensure designs meet scalability, reliability and performance needs.
• Promote secure development practices and compliance standards.

Skills

REST APIs

OpenAPI

API Governance

DevOps

Security practices

Technical documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Apigee

Azure API Management

AWS API Gateway

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

Essential Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Five to six years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• 5+ years of experience in API Governance, API Architecture, API Product Management, Developer Enablement, Solution Architecture, Technology Risk, or related disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, OpenAPI Specifications, API Lifecycle Management, API Versioning, Authentication, Authorization, and Error Handling Standards.
• Experience defining and implementing API standards, design guidelines, governance frameworks, and lifecycle controls across enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to drive adoption of technical standards through developer coaching, consultation, workshops, and enablement programs.
• Understanding of GenAI Enablement, Responsible AI Practices, AI Risk Controls, AI Gateways, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) concepts.
• Ability to translate complex security, privacy, compliance, architecture, and risk requirements into clear, actionable engineering guidance.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience creating technical documentation, standards, training materials, decision records, and executive summaries.
• Preferred experience with API Management Platforms (Apigee, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, Solo.io or similar), API Developer Portals, AI Agents, and work within regulated financial services environments.

Location expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

Equal Opportunity

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Background Checks

U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA).

In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.