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MUFG Bank N.A. is currently recruiting for an Associate Vice President, Middleware Cloud Services Engineer that will be located in Tampa, FL or Jersey City, NJ who will utilize the software development skillsets in a unique way to deliver stable and strategic automation solutions, enabling software capabilities across MUFG Bank N.A. The API First effort will deliver a world-class API Platform for commercial and transaction banking to enable the bank’s competitive market position. This will serve our customers' best interests by providing an improved product suite, increased financial performance, and it will also eliminate significant legacy platforms. The Resetting the technology backbone ‘R’ is a multi-year effort that will implement a scalable, secure, compliant, and efficient technology platform; enable the Technology organization to be 'fit for growth' to meet future acquisition, customer growth, and product needs; drive a step-change reduction in technology operating costs; increase speed-to-market; minimize residual risk; and ensure security and compliance.
THE ROLE
The Middleware Cloud Services Engineer will be a hands-on technical engineer that will be accountable for Software development, R&D and operations in support of the Enterprise Integration Platform at MUFG. On this team, you will face a wide array of technical challenges that greatly impact our business. This team works closely across the Cloud Transformation Organization, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Engineering and Operations organizations, in order to deliver next generation capabilities in an operationally stable software defined ecosystem to MUFG and its customers. The role will be responsible for design, evolution, implementation and support of the cloud transformation Enterprise Integration Platform operating across geographically diverse data centers, as well as cloud service providers, empowering our customers with capabilities of highly available, automated and cost-effective platform solutions to address resiliency, performance, portability, security and disaster recovery needs. The Role will serve as a point of escalation for all operational issues and critical events related to the Enterprise Integration Platform. The position will also need the individual to train the staff, developing standard operating procedures and writing knowledge articles. The Engineer will also be a key contributor to automation roadmap and strategy to improve policy driven automated operations while adhering to the industry best practices and infrastructure-as-code principles.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- AWS certifications related to architecture, networking, or security are strongly preferred; WSO2 certifications are nice to have
- A minimum of 5 years of experience with large scale mission critical and production scale platforms at an Enterprise or service provider is required
- At least 5 years of strong hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating AWS API Gateway-based enterprise API platforms; familiarity with WSO2 API Manager is a plus
- Independent judgment, technical problem solving, analytical and decision-making strength is required
- Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills are required
- Self-starter with strong teamwork abilities and customer service skills are required
- Experience working in a Scrum methodology including the Atlassian stack (Jira/Confluence) is preferred
REQUIRED SKILLS
- A minimum of 5 years of experience with large scale mission critical and production scale platforms at an Enterprise or service provider is required
- Deep expertise in AWS API Gateway including REST APIs, HTTP APIs, WebSocket APIs, custom domains, usage plans, stages, throttling, caching, and deployment strategies
- Strong experience designing secure, scalable API architectures on AWS using API Gateway, Lambda, ECS/EKS, ALB/NLB, and private integrations
- Hands-on expertise with API authentication and authorization patterns in AWS including IAM, Cognito, Lambda authorizers, OAuth2, JWT, and mutual TLS
- Experience implementing API lifecycle controls such as throttling, quota management, rate limiting, access policies, WAF integration, and multi-environment promotion on AWS
- Ability to design mock services, execute performance and resiliency testing, and guide internal teams on load testing and capacity planning for AWS-hosted API platforms
- Strong troubleshooting skills across AWS API Gateway, CloudWatch, X-Ray, networking, integrations, and downstream services in production environments
- Provides architecture guidance, best practices, and technology recommendations to ensure a resilient, secure, and cost-effective enterprise API ecosystem on AWS
- Experience with API logging, telemetry, and operational data management using CloudWatch, S3, and related AWS observability services
- Familiarity with data classification, API governance, secrets handling, and secure management of sensitive data across AWS services
- Expertise in multi-account and multi-region AWS deployment models with best practices for resiliency, failover, disaster recovery, and infrastructure standardization
- Ability to automate API platform provisioning and policy enforcement using infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience integrating AWS API solutions with enterprise identity providers and access management platforms such as PingFederate, PingID, and similar SSO technologies
- In-depth knowledge of OAuth2, various grant types, JWT/OAuth tokens, API threat protection, and API security best practices
- In-depth knowledge of distributed tracing and observability, including setup and configuration of tools such as AWS X-Ray, Dynatrace, and CloudWatch for end-to-end API tracing
- Strong experience with AWS integration services such as Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS, and SNS to build scalable integration patterns and event-driven workflows
- Expertise in translating business requirements into well-governed API products, backend integrations, and transformation patterns across cloud-native services
- Expert in working with container platforms such as OpenShift 4.x, Kubernetes 1.17 or higher, and AWS-native deployment environments
- Familiarity with Splunk and its integrations, including ingestion of AWS platform and API telemetry
- Ability to mentor and train the current team on AWS API Gateway, AWS integration patterns, API security, observability, and related platform engineering practices; basic WSO2 knowledge transfer is a plus
- Experience working with Spring Boot, Java, microservices, Docker, REST, SOAP, Postgres, CI/CD, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and cloud-native API delivery patterns
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS services including API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, S3, EFS, IAM, VPC, Security Groups, Availability Zones, Route 53, CloudWatch, WAF, and related networking and security constructs
- Nice to have working familiarity with WSO2 API Manager and migration considerations from WSO2-based implementations to AWS-led API platforms
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience
COMPENSATION
The typical base pay range for this role is between $112K - $137K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.
For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below. MUFG Benefits Summary
INTRODUCTION
MUFG Bank N.A. is currently recruiting for an Associate Vice President, Middleware Cloud Services Engineer that will be located in Tampa, FL or Jersey City, NJ who will utilize the software development skillsets in a unique way to deliver stable and strategic automation solutions, enabling software capabilities across MUFG Bank N.A. The API First effort will deliver a world-class API Platform for commercial and transaction banking to enable the bank’s competitive market position. This will serve our customers' best interests by providing an improved product suite, increased financial performance, and it will also eliminate significant legacy platforms. The Resetting the technology backbone ‘R’ is a multi-year effort that will implement a scalable, secure, compliant, and efficient technology platform; enable the Technology organization to be 'fit for growth' to meet future acquisition, customer growth, and product needs; drive a step-change reduction in technology operating costs; increase speed-to-market; minimize residual risk; and ensure security and compliance.
THE ROLE
The Middleware Cloud Services Engineer will be a hands-on technical engineer that will be accountable for Software development, R&D and operations in support of the Enterprise Integration Platform at MUFG. On this team, you will face a wide array of technical challenges that greatly impact our business. This team works closely across the Cloud Transformation Organization, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Engineering and Operations organizations, in order to deliver next generation capabilities in an operationally stable software defined ecosystem to MUFG and its customers. The role will be responsible for design, evolution, implementation and support of the cloud transformation Enterprise Integration Platform operating across geographically diverse data centers, as well as cloud service providers, empowering our customers with capabilities of highly available, automated and cost-effective platform solutions to address resiliency, performance, portability, security and disaster recovery needs. The Role will serve as a point of escalation for all operational issues and critical events related to the Enterprise Integration Platform. The position will also need the individual to train the staff, developing standard operating procedures and writing knowledge articles. The Engineer will also be a key contributor to automation roadmap and strategy to improve policy driven automated operations while adhering to the industry best practices and infrastructure-as-code principles.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- AWS certifications related to architecture, networking, or security are strongly preferred; WSO2 certifications are nice to have
- A minimum of 5 years of experience with large scale mission critical and production scale platforms at an Enterprise or service provider is required
- At least 5 years of strong hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating AWS API Gateway-based enterprise API platforms; familiarity with WSO2 API Manager is a plus
- Independent judgment, technical problem solving, analytical and decision-making strength is required
- Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills are required
- Self-starter with strong teamwork abilities and customer service skills are required
- Experience working in a Scrum methodology including the Atlassian stack (Jira/Confluence) is preferred
REQUIRED SKILLS
- A minimum of 5 years of experience with large scale mission critical and production scale platforms at an Enterprise or service provider is required
- Deep expertise in AWS API Gateway including REST APIs, HTTP APIs, WebSocket APIs, custom domains, usage plans, stages, throttling, caching, and deployment strategies
- Strong experience designing secure, scalable API architectures on AWS using API Gateway, Lambda, ECS/EKS, ALB/NLB, and private integrations
- Hands-on expertise with API authentication and authorization patterns in AWS including IAM, Cognito, Lambda authorizers, OAuth2, JWT, and mutual TLS
- Experience implementing API lifecycle controls such as throttling, quota management, rate limiting, access policies, WAF integration, and multi-environment promotion on AWS
- Ability to design mock services, execute performance and resiliency testing, and guide internal teams on load testing and capacity planning for AWS-hosted API platforms
- Strong troubleshooting skills across AWS API Gateway, CloudWatch, X-Ray, networking, integrations, and downstream services in production environments
- Provides architecture guidance, best practices, and technology recommendations to ensure a resilient, secure, and cost-effective enterprise API ecosystem on AWS
- Experience with API logging, telemetry, and operational data management using CloudWatch, S3, and related AWS observability services
- Familiarity with data classification, API governance, secrets handling, and secure management of sensitive data across AWS services
- Expertise in multi-account and multi-region AWS deployment models with best practices for resiliency, failover, disaster recovery, and infrastructure standardization
- Ability to automate API platform provisioning and policy enforcement using infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience integrating AWS API solutions with enterprise identity providers and access management platforms such as PingFederate, PingID, and similar SSO technologies
- In-depth knowledge of OAuth2, various grant types, JWT/OAuth tokens, API threat protection, and API security best practices
- In-depth knowledge of distributed tracing and observability, including setup and configuration of tools such as AWS X-Ray, Dynatrace, and CloudWatch for end-to-end API tracing
- Strong experience with AWS integration services such as Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS, and SNS to build scalable integration patterns and event-driven workflows
- Expertise in translating business requirements into well-governed API products, backend integrations, and transformation patterns across cloud-native services
- Expert in working with container platforms such as OpenShift 4.x, Kubernetes 1.17 or higher, and AWS-native deployment environments
- Familiarity with Splunk and its integrations, including ingestion of AWS platform and API telemetry
- Ability to mentor and train the current team on AWS API Gateway, AWS integration patterns, API security, observability, and related platform engineering practices; basic WSO2 knowledge transfer is a plus
- Experience working with Spring Boot, Java, microservices, Docker, REST, SOAP, Postgres, CI/CD, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and cloud-native API delivery patterns
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS services including API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, S3, EFS, IAM, VPC, Security Groups, Availability Zones, Route 53, CloudWatch, WAF, and related networking and security constructs
- Nice to have working familiarity with WSO2 API Manager and migration considerations from WSO2-based implementations to AWS-led API platforms
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience
COMPENSATION
The typical base pay range for this role is between $112K - $137K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.
For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below. MUFG Benefits Summary
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as an Api Engineer
Target employers with H-1B filing history
Companies that have filed H-1B petitions before understand the process and are less likely to withdraw an offer over sponsorship concerns. Prioritize employers with a demonstrated track record of sponsoring software and API-focused engineering roles.
Make your degree field explicit on your resume
H-1B approval for API Engineer roles depends on establishing a specialty occupation. A degree in computer science, software engineering, or a directly related field strengthens the petition. Ambiguous degree titles can trigger RFEs, so spell out the field clearly.
Highlight API-specific technical depth
USCIS scrutinizes whether the role genuinely requires a specialized degree. Listing REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and specific integration experience signals technical complexity that supports the specialty occupation argument, making your petition harder to challenge.
Engage the employer early on LCA timing
Your employer must file a Labor Condition Application with the Department of Labor before submitting your H-1B petition. Confirming they understand this step early prevents delays, especially if your start date or OPT expiration creates a tight filing window.
Consider cap-exempt employers if lottery timing is a problem
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and certain government entities are exempt from the H-1B cap and lottery. API engineering roles exist at these organizations, and a cap-exempt offer means you can start without waiting for an October 1 start date.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for verified sponsoring employers
Not every job listing that sounds open to sponsorship actually is. Migrate Mate surfaces API Engineer roles from employers with confirmed sponsorship intent, saving you from applying to positions where the answer was always going to be no.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does an API Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS looks for roles where a bachelor's degree in a specific field is a normal minimum requirement. API Engineer positions typically require computer science, software engineering, or a related degree, which satisfies that standard. Roles that accept any bachelor's degree regardless of field are more likely to face an RFE.
What visa types are available for API Engineers beyond the H-1B?
Australian citizens can apply for the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and a far less competitive annual cap. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify under TN visa status. Those with exceptional achievements in software engineering may be eligible for the O-1A. Each pathway has different employer obligations, processing timelines, and renewal rules.
Does my degree field matter, or is any computer science adjacent degree acceptable?
The degree field needs to align with the specific role. A computer science or software engineering degree is the clearest fit for an API Engineer petition. Information systems or electrical engineering degrees can work if the coursework is relevant. A business or unrelated degree supporting an API engineering role will likely trigger an RFE and require additional documentation.
How do I find API Engineer jobs where the employer is actually willing to sponsor?
Sponsorship willingness is rarely stated clearly in job postings. Migrate Mate focuses specifically on roles from employers who sponsor work visas, so you can filter for API Engineer positions without guessing. Applying through a targeted list is significantly more efficient than cold-applying to general postings and asking about sponsorship after the fact.
Can I switch employers after getting H-1B sponsorship as an API Engineer?
Yes. H-1B visa portability allows you to start working for a new employer once they file a new H-1B petition on your behalf, without waiting for approval, as long as you have been in valid H-1B status for at least 180 days. The new employer must file before your current status expires, and the new role must also qualify as a specialty occupation.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Api Engineer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.