Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PNC is a leading financial services company, and they are seeking a Software Engineer Lead - 2 within their Retail Tech organization. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining scalable API services while leading a team of developers.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
- Lead a team of mid-level to senior developers
- Build scalable, secure, and high-performing API services
- Define API contracts and documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger)
- Integrate APIs with databases and third-party services
- Optimize API performance and reliability
- Implement authentication and authorization (OAuth2, JWT)
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Conduct code reviews and enforce API standards
- Assist with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices
- Collaborate with DevOps teams
- Troubleshoot deployment issues
Skills
- Strong experience in API development (Java 8/17/21, Spring Boot, Kafka)
- Proven experience building RESTful APIs
- Knowledge of API security and lifecycle management
- Experience with Oracle and MySQL databases
- Familiarity with microservices architecture
- Exposure to Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud platform familiarity (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with API gateways
- Knowledge of event-driven architecture
- Experience with observability tools
Benefits
- Medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
- Dental and vision options
- Employee and spouse/child life insurance
- Short and long-term disability protection
- 401(k) with PNC match
- Pension and stock purchase plans
- Dependent care reimbursement account
- Back-up child/elder care
- Adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
- Educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
- A robust wellness program with financial incentives
- Maternity and/or parental leave
- Up to 11 paid holidays each year
- 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
- Between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level and years of service
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