Remote API Engineer (staff) - Remote Eligible

Remote Api Engineer (Staff-Level)

A large financial organization is seeking a remote API Engineer (Staff-Level) for a contract opportunity through the end of the year (with a high likelihood for extensions). These candidates can sit remote, but need to be able to work EST. Responsibilities include:

• Design and develop scalable APIs to support real-time payment processing, including integration with FedNow and other high-volume financial platforms.
• Build and maintain distributed systems with a focus on concurrency, memory management, and performance tuning in Java.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high availability and reliability of services, including failover strategies and service degradation handling.
• Implement messaging and eventing solutions using technologies like MQ and Kafka to support asynchronous and synchronous transaction flows.
• Monitor and optimize system performance through observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Splunk.
• Support transaction scaling efforts.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and queuing technologies to handle gaming traffic from major providers.
• Participate in incident management processes including root cause analysis and retrospectives.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation using Terraform (or similar IaC tools), CI/CD pipelines, and release validation tooling.
• Work on transitioning from on-prem payment rails to scalable cloud-based solutions, ensuring readiness for future traffic surges.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to anticipate and build ahead of traffic growth, ensuring system resilience and scalability.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.