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Job Description
Fort Mill, SC, United States (On-site) Contract (6 months 16 days) Published 15 hours ago Monitoring & Logging
REST API
development root cause analysis problem - solving and communication skills DevOps & CI/CD Python terraform production support AWS lambda The Senior API Engineer (Python / AWS) is a critical member of the Data Modernization & Integration organization. This role is responsible for designing, building, securing, and operating high quality, cloud native REST APIs that power LPL's core business platforms and integrations. This engineer will focus primarily on Python-based API development on AWS, leveraging services such as API Gateway, Lambda, and related AWS components, with all infrastructure managed through Terraform. The role plays an important part in modernizing legacy integrations and defining engineering standards for reliable, secure, and scalable API services. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on Python API engineering expertise with strong cloud architecture skills, a passion for automation, and the ability to collaborate across platform, data, security, and application teams.
Responsibilities:
API Engineering & Application Development:
Design, develop, and maintain Python based REST APIs that support business critical workflows. Build APIs using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway, following API first and REST best practices. Implement clean, testable, and well documented Python code suitable for enterprise production environments. Optimize API performance, reliability, scalability, and error handling. Ensure proper API versioning, contract stability, and backward compatibility.
Security & Access Management:
Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth2, JWT, and IAM based access. Enforce API security controls including request validation, throttling, rate limiting, and auditing. Partner with security teams to ensure APIs meet enterprise security and compliance standards.
Automation & Infrastructure Engineering:
Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform. Create and maintain reusable Terraform modules for: API Gateway Lambda IAM roles and policies CloudWatch logging and monitoring Ensure environment consistency across DEV, QA, UAT, and
PROD. CI/CD
&
Operational Excellence:
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deployment of Python APIs. Support automated testing, packaging, versioning, and release management. Implement observability through logging, metrics, alerts, and tracing. Participate in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and production support activities.
Cross Team Collaboration:
Collaborate closely with application teams, platform engineering, cloud, and security teams. Align API design and implementation with enterprise architectural standards. Actively contribute to code reviews, design discussions, and technical documentation. Promote best practices and a culture of engineering excellence.
Strategic Influence:
Influence API engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the organization. Contribute to architectural reviews and modernization efforts. Help drive consistent, scalable, and maintainable cloud native API solutions.
What Are We Looking For:
We are looking for strong collaborators who deliver reliable, secure, and high quality API solutions in fast paced, team oriented environments. Ideal candidates pursue technical excellence, act with integrity, and are motivated to build scalable platforms that enable business growth. We value continuous improvement, curiosity, and individuals who take ownership and pride in their work.
Requirements :
7+ years of experience in software engineering, API engineering, or cloud application development. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master's preferred).
Demonstrated hands-on experience with:
Python for backend and API development
REST API
design and implementation AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway Terraform for Infrastructure as Code Experience building and operating APIs in large scale, production environments. Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and secure API design. Experience with CI/CD, Git based workflows, and automated testing. Ability to troubleshoot production issues and support on call rotations when required.
Core Competencies :
API Design Mindset — builds clean, consistent, and consumer friendly APIs. Builder Mindset — emphasizes automation, reuse, and simplicity. Systems Thinking — understands how APIs integrate with distributed systems. Collaboration — works effectively across engineering, security, and platform teams. Ownership & Accountability — takes responsibility for design, delivery, and reliability.
Preferences :
Experience with OAuth providers and identity platforms. Familiarity with AWS SAM or Serverless Framework (tooling experience). Exposure to event driven architectures (EventBridge, SNS/SQS). Experience operating APIs in regulated or enterprise environments (financial services preferred). Knowledge of observability tools such as CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Datadog, OpenTelemetry. Experience designing reusable API frameworks or shared libraries.
Why This Role Is Different :
This position is not a Data Engineer role. It is focused entirely on Python API engineering on AWS, supported by Terraform based cloud infrastructure, and ownership of secure, scalable, and production ready API services. The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $34.67/hour - $54.18/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America's leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients' success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Unincorporated LA County workers:
we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.
