API Designer - Expert Level

Tanisha Systems

Chicago Jersey City Palo Alto Tampa, IL

JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time
SKILLS
Application Programming Interface (API), Commercial Banking, Documentation, Investment Services, Software Engineering
LOCATION
Chicago Jersey City Palo Alto Tampa, IL
POSTED
4 days ago
Job description: -

API Designer - Expert Level

Jersey City/Tampa, FL/Chicago, IL/Palo Alto, CA
Long term Project

JD:

As an API Designer, you will be responsible for designing, documenting, and evolving robust, scalable, and user-friendly APIs. As a Senior Lead Software Engineer within

Commercial and Investment Banking team,

you will play a key role in an agile team dedicated to building, enhancing, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products. You will leverage your deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills to address complex challenges across multiple technologies and applications, driving significant business impact through your contributions.


Key Responsibilities

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  • API Design: Design RESTful, GRPC, and/or event-driven APIs using best practices and industry standards (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger, AsyncAPI).
  • Documentation: Create and maintain clear, comprehensive API documentation and usage guides.
  • Collaboration: Work with product, engineering, and Architect teams to gather requirements and translate them into API specifications.
  • Standards & Governance: Define and enforce API design standards, style guides, and governance processes.
  • Prototyping: Build API prototypes and mock servers to validate designs and facilitate early feedback.
  • Developer Experience: Advocate for and implement features that improve the developer experience, such as versioning, error handling, and discoverability.
  • Lifecycle Management: Support the full API lifecycle, including versioning, deprecation, and backward compatibility.
  • Quality Assurance: Collaborate with QA and development teams to ensure APIs are well-tested and meet performance, security, and reliability standards.
  • Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with API trends, tools, and technologies, and drive continuous improvement in API design practices.
Required Skills & Qualifications
  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, with 10+ years of applied experience
  • Strong understanding of REST, GRPC, and/or event-driven API paradigms
  • Proficiency with API specification tools (OpenAPI/Swagger, RAML, AsyncAPI, Postman, etc.)
  • Experience with API gateways, management platforms, and developer portals
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills
  • Familiarity with security best practices (OAuth2, JWT, API keys, etc.)
  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with AWS (EKS)
  • Knowledge of Micro Services & Domain Driven architecture
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated API testing
  • Contributions to open-source API tools or standards

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About Tanisha Systems, Inc.

Tanisha Systems, founded in 2002 in Massachusetts-*, is a leading provider of Custom Application Development and end-to-end IT Services to clients globally. We use a client-centric engagement model that combines local on-site and off-site resources with the cost, global expertise and quality advantages of off-shore operations. We deliver Custom Application Development, Application Modernization, Business Process Outsourcing and Professional IT Services from office locations in * and *.


Tanisha Systems services clients in Government, Banking & Financial Markets, Insurance, Healthcare, Retail & Consumer Goods, Energy & Utilities, Life Sciences, Telecom, Manufacturing and Transportation Industries around the globe. Our engagement model provides a flexible operational environment that empowers our clients with the right levels of control.



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