Principal Software Engineer - Apigee

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.  Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.  We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.  Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. 

Are you an experienced software engineer with a passion for designing and building robust API solutions? We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping our API landscape. In this role, you'll leverage your deep expertise in Apigee and related technologies to create secure, scalable, and high-performing applications that power our internal and external client solutions.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll be a key contributor across the entire software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment. Your responsibilities will include:

• API Design & Development: Lead the design, development, and management of API proxies within the Apigee platform, ensuring security, scalability, performance, and seamless integration with various systems.

• Full Lifecycle Ownership: Own the entire API lifecycle, from initial planning and design to implementation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization.

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide expert guidance and mentorship to other software engineers, sharing your in-depth knowledge of coding, design patterns, and best practices.

• Architectural Vision: Collaborate with business and technology teams to define API standards, guidelines, and best practices. Evaluate existing API infrastructure and recommend improvements to enhance our overall architecture.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with stakeholders, clients, and vendors to gather requirements, determine solution approaches, and translate them into effective API solutions.

• Quality & Compliance: Ensure adherence to API governance policies, security standards (including PCI compliance), and best practices, performing rigorous testing and validation of complex code.

• Strategic Impact: Advise leadership on application standards, controls, and monitoring to ensure compliance and data accuracy. Contribute to resource estimates and project planning for complex initiatives.

We're seeking a highly skilled and experienced individual with a strong background in Apigee and a passion for building exceptional software.

Required Qualifications:

• 8 + years of strong development experience with API Technologies, focusing on API proxy design, development, and management.

• Demonstrated expertise in the entire API lifecycle, including planning, design, implementation, security, scaling, performance, troubleshooting, and optimization.

• Strong understanding of API governance policies, best practices, and security standards.

• Hands on experience working on Design and Implementation of Apigee Edge, Apigee X and Apigee Hybrid solutions

• Proven experience in building RESTful and SOAP web services and integrating with external applications.

• Solid grasp of design patterns, algorithms, session management, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts, data structures, and collections.

• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git, VSTS).

• Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills with the ability to manage competing demands effectively.

• Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to collaborate across business and technology teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business/Management Information Systems, or a related field.

Highly Desired Skills & Experience:

• Java & Core Java Technologies, including Java 8 (Lambda, Streams, DateTime API).

• Experience with Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Security).

• Experience with application servers (e.g., Apache, Tomcat, JBoss).

• Familiarity with build tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle).

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services like Pub/Sub, Datastore, BigQuery, AppEngine, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Memory Store, Redis.

• Experience with other API Gateways (e.g., Datapower, APIM).

• Experience as a Middleware developer using Java/J2EE technologies and message queues.

• Experience in the administration and setup of Message Brokers (e.g., IBM Integration Bus, RabbitMQ).

• Good knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, and JDBC drivers.

• Experience with NoSQL databases.

• Exposure to the Payments industry is a plus.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll be instrumental in tackling complex challenges, driving technical innovation, and mentoring junior team members. You'll work on high-impact projects that require in-depth analysis and creative problem-solving, networking with key contacts across the organization. You'll have the opportunity to determine methods and procedures for new assignments and potentially coordinate the activities of other personnel.

Our team works with a diverse set of technologies, including:

• Operating Systems: Linux distributions (Ubuntu, CentOS/RHEL, Amazon Linux), Microsoft Windows.

• Databases: Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server, DB2, NoSQL databases.

• Back-end Technologies: Apigee, Java, Python, 

• Front-end Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, CICS.

• Web Frameworks: Node.js

Development Tools: Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ, Visual Studio

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