API Specialist at Softworld Inc

Job Title: API Specialist

Job Location: Providence Rhode Island 02901

Onsite Requirements:

• API Development
• Python/JavaScript/Mulesoft
• API design/documentation/management

Job Description:

• As an API Developer with a focus on embedded banking and third-party integrations, this role will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs that facilitate seamless interactions between our systems and external financial partners.
• This position will play a key role in enhancing our platform's capabilities, ensuring secure and efficient integration with third-party APIs, with an emphasis on Auth0 for identity management.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of API integrations with third parties to support web and mobile digital solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and ensure that the API development is scalable, efficient, and aligned with the Bank's strategic goals.
• Monitor API performance and work with frontend and backend developers to troubleshoot and drive the remediation of issues.
• Incorporate BSA/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) principles into the API design, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
• Drive the implementation of Auth0 for secure authentication and identity management within our API ecosystem.
• Support in the configuration and management of Auth0 policies, rules, and connections to enhance the security of our APIs.
• Conduct regular assessments of existing APIs, identifying areas for improvement, scalability, and security enhancements.
• Work closely with network and cybersecurity teams to implement and enforce security best practices for API development and integration.
• Define and enforce best practices for API documentation, versioning, and lifecycle management.
• Evaluate, select, and implement API management tools and frameworks.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams on API design and integration best practices.

Position Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proficient with design, development, and maintenance of APIs to support web and mobile applications and resulting integrations with backend solutions, specifically in the banking or fintech industries.
• Proficient in building high-performance APIs using Cloud services and programing languages such as JavaScript and Python.
• Experience with API Management solutions such as Apigee, Google Cloud Endpoints, Postman, MuleSoft and Azure API Management
• Experience with designing and implementing secure and scalable API solutions.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams in trouble shooting functional and performance issues.
• Experience with DevOps to integrate any new code into existing CI/CD pipelines.
• 5+ years of experience in software development
• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing high performance APIs & Web applications.
• 5+ years of experience in building APIs using Could services, specifically using Python, Lambda and API gateway.
• Knowledge of best practices for designing, publishing, analyzing and managing APIs
• Knowledge of BSA/AML principles and their integration into API solutions
• Understanding of RESTful API design principles and standards.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization protocols such as Auth0
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Effective communication skills to collaborate with diverse teams and articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

** 3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3^rd party subcontractors need not apply.

This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future. **