AVP API Engineer

Synchrony

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Work type: On-site
Location: Atlanta, GACharlotte, NCStamford, CT
Salary: $115,000–$200,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 8 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About Synchrony

Synchrony is a premier consumer financial services company and one of the nation’s largest providers of private-label and co-branded credit cards, alongside promotional financing and FDIC-insured savings products.

Synchrony currently has 17 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · AVP API Engineer

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JOB TITLE: AVP, API Engineer The AVP, API Engineer joins the information technology team to lead the development and lifecycle management of consumer bank and credit servicing applications. This role involves architecting full-stack applications, designing data models for complex business processes, and driving CI/CD strategies. The engineer will mentor teams, influence agile development through SAFe, and ensure compliance with security and technology standards. Key technical requirements include expertise in solution and event-driven architecture, microservices, and cloud-native applications. The candidate must utilize J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, RESTful APIs, and SOAP. Proficiency with PCF, Jenkins, Bitbucket, uDeploy, MySQL, SQL, Gemfire, and Splunk is required. This position solves critical technical problems by maintaining operational excellence, performing root cause analysis, and executing application modernization and migration roadmaps within a financial banking context.

Skills

Microservices Spring Boot Spring Cloud J2EE Java RESTful APIs Pivotal Cloud Foundry CI/CD Jenkins Bitbucket uDeploy MySQL SQL Gemfire Splunk SOAP JSON XML GitHub Copilot Agile SAFe Cloud Native Application Architecture

What you'll do

Architect full-stack applications using PCF, Cloud Native architecture, microservices, and RESTful APIs.
Design complex data models to support core business processes and banking applications.
Drive the CI/CD strategy using Jenkins, Bitbucket, and uDeploy.
Lead Agile sprints including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog grooming, and reviews.
Mentor development teams and influence technical strategy across the organization.
Analyze production defects, troubleshoot systems, and implement root cause fixes.
Ensure application code quality through rigorous development, testing, and QA processes.
Maintain the future state technology architectural strategy and application modernization roadmap.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 8 years of software engineering experience or a High School Diploma/GED and 10 years of experience.
Minimum of 6 years of application development experience.
Expertise in solution and event-driven architecture, microservice architecture, cloud technologies, and Spring Boot and Spring Cloud development.
Experience architecting applications using PCF, Cloud Native Application Architecture, J2EE, Spring Java, and RESTful APIs.
Ability to drive CI/CD strategies using Jenkins, Bitbucket, and uDeploy.
Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.
Must be 18 years or older and able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
Experience building and consuming web services via SOAP and REST (preferred).

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