Lead Software Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer you will develop and execute the key technology components of the Enterprise API Technology & Platform strategy and ensure alignment with Guardians enterprise digital strategy. You will be an innovative software engineer and will harness deep industry and technicalexpertiseto develop seamless data integration between Enterprise Applications using RESTful APIs messaging and event streams.

As a key technical leader you will mentor team members design delivery strategies and champion a culture of automation and continuous improvement within the software delivery lifecycle.

You will

• Lead the design development and evolution of enterprise APIs including REST GraphQL gRPC and eventdriven integrations following APIfirst design principles

• Enable developer productivity and selfservice through reusable API frameworks platforms templates SDKs documentation (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI) and developer portals

• Establish best practices & enterprise capabilities for improving API design governance testing documentation and release management across development teams

• Drive incident response and resolution for production API and platform issues lead postmortems and implement preventive and resiliency improvements

• Research emerging technologies and perform PoCs related to API management integration patterns platform engineering and observability

• Ensure compliance with security data privacy and performance standards in all integration projects.

• Collaborate with a team of software engineers in implementing andmaintaining enterprise APIs and platform(s).

• Mentor and guide engineers on best practicestoolsand technologies to enhance delivery quality

You Have:

• Bachelors or mastersdegree in computer science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience

• 10 years of experience inSoftware engineering building and operating distributed systems

• Strong handson experience developing highquality APIs using Java (Spring Boot) .NET or Python

• Experience with a broad range of web technologies including React Angular & Typescript

• Expertise in Microservices Architecture Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and EventDriven Architectures

• Strong knowledge of API security including OAuth 2.0 JWT token lifecycle management and user access control mechanisms

• Competency with CI/CD automation tools (e.g. Bitbucket Jenkins AWSGitHub)

• Deep understanding of API protocols and integration patterns: REST GraphQL gRPC SOAP async/eventdriven architectures

• Experience implementing API observability using logging metrics tracing and monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Splunk)

• Strong experience designing domainaligned APIs using OpenAPI / Swagger specifications with a focus on consistency reusability and user/machine readability.

• Deep understanding of containerization & orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes Helm) and AWS Cloud services S3 Lambda Kafka SQS/SNS Redis Cache.

• Handson experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases designing for scale performance and reliability

Location:

Three days a week at a Guardian location in New York NY Holmdel NJ Bethlehem Pa or Boston MA

Salary Range:

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education experience knowledge and abilities of the successful addition to salary this role may also be eligible for annual sales or other incentive compensation.

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