Lead Software Engineer - REST API Developer

Responsibilities

• Creates and leads the technical design and development of software solutions.
• Proposes and designs software solutions to address complex business needs.
• Prepares technical and procedural documentation required.
• Facilitates complex problem resolution.
• Provides technical guidance and support to colleagues.
• Reviews coding, testing, and documentation of software.
• Applies modern principles, methodologies and tools to advance business initiatives and capabilities.

• Strong proficiency in Java backend development, with deep experience using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud to build enterprise-grade, production-ready APIs.
• Extensive experience designing and developing microservices architectures, including service decomposition, inter-service communication, resilience patterns, and backward-compatible API versioning.
• Hands‑on experience deploying and running microservices on Open Shift/Kubernetes, including containerization (Docker), configuration management, scaling, and environment‑specific deployments (DEV, QA, UAT, PROD).
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles, including contract‑first development, OpenAPI/Swagger documentation, proper HTTP semantics, and standardized error handling.
• Experience integrating backend APIs with mobile platforms (iOS and Android), ensuring performance, reliability, and secure data exchange for customer‑facing mobile applications.
• Strong knowledge of API security, including OAuth2, JWT, mutual TLS, client credentials, token management, and secure access patterns required in regulated banking environments.
• Familiarity with API gateways and edge services, such as routing, throttling, authentication, logging, and monitoring of mobile‑facing APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for Java microservices, including automated builds, testing, quality gates, and deployment to Open Shift.
• Proven ability to support APIs through the full lifecycle, from development and testing through production releases, post‑deployment monitoring, and defect remediation.
• Experience working in large‑scale enterprise and financial systems, with awareness of compliance, audit requirements, and high‑availability expectations.
• Strong collaboration skills, working closely with mobile app teams, QA, product owners, and platform teams during feature delivery, redesign initiatives, and coordinated releases.