Python API Engineer

Job summary

Where Ambition Meets Innovation Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL*** to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.

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Qualifications

• The ideal candidate brings strong experience with Python, REST APIs, AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch), Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise application support.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in software engineering, cloud application engineering, API engineering, platform engineering, or related technical roles.
• Hands-on experience with Python development, REST APIs, AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM, S3), and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience developing, validating, supporting, or operating APIs and cloud-native applications in large-scale production environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, automated testing, and deployment automation

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.

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