API Engagement Engineer

Synchrony is a financial services company, and they are seeking an API Engagement Engineer to advocate for Application and API development teams. This role involves providing best practices for REST API development, supporting teams in API design, security, lifecycle management, and documentation.

Responsibilities:

• Educate and enable teams to adopt and effectively use Synchrony’s API development toolchain and standards
• Provide API design guidance and conduct API design/specification reviews to ensure alignment with REST and OpenAPI best practices
• Help teams leverage the API Gateway to meet enterprise requirements (e.g., security controls, traffic management, and governance)
• Promote best practices for Microservice/SOA application development, including API consistency, reuse, and maintainability
• Learn Synchrony’s business domains and assist teams in maturing APIs into enterprise-grade, productized APIs suitable for broader consumption
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 2–3 years of modern application development experience; or, in lieu of a degree, 3–5 years of relevant experience
• 1+ year of experience designing and/or building REST APIs in a modern application environment
• Experience working with Apigee or a similar API Gateway product
• Working knowledge of Java/Spring Boot and/or Node.js (JavaScript) in the context of API development
• Experience authoring and reviewing OpenAPI specifications (YAML/JSON) aligned to REST architectural style
• Experience working in Agile delivery models and familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Bitbucket, and CI/CD/DevOps practices
• Strong communication, analytical, and structured problem-solving skills; ability to troubleshoot issues using available tools and logs
• Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams with both technical and business stakeholders
• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders
• Strong understanding of API security fundamentals (e.g., authentication/authorization concepts, secure design principles)
• Architectural awareness of application development in a microservices environment
• DevOps process fundamentals and comfort collaborating with platform/operations partners
• Passion for learning diverse business domains and technologies and advocating for engineering best practices