API Engineer (Remote)

The following states/districts are excluded from this job ad: AK, CA, CO, CT, DC, HI, LA, MA, MN, MO, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, ND, OR, PR, RI, VT, WA, WY

Future Need - Actively Interviewing

Location: Remote in any United States jurisdiction not excluded from this job advertisement.

Connect the enterprise systems that Veterans depend on for care coordination. As the API Engineer you will design, implement, and maintain integration patterns! Apply now!

Position Description: The API Engineer supports the technical implementation of the Scheduling Event Bus and all external system connections, interface control documentation, and Application Programming Interface (API) onboarding processes.

Minimum/General Experience: 3 years of experience in API engineering and enterprise integration

Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or related field

Essential Skills/Qualifications:

• Excellent experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures using AWS MSK (Kafka), AWS Kinesis, and equivalent enterprise messaging platforms including event schema design and message contract management
• Excellent ability to design API integration patterns for healthcare scheduling systems
• Excellent experience implementing API security controls including OAuth 2.0, identity-based access controls, role-based authorization, encryption in transit and at rest, and audit logging
• Excellent ability to design API consumer onboarding frameworks including intake procedures, technical integration standards, interface control documentation (ICD), and production-readiness criteria
• Excellent experience with API gateway configuration
• Above average knowledge of Istio service mesh API traffic management (e.g., virtual services, destination rules, traffic routing, mTLS enforcement on EKS)
• Above average experience with fault-tolerant messaging architecture (e.g., automated failover, message durability, replay capability, and dead-letter queue management)
• Working knowledge of multi-region API routing strategies including DNS-based failover and health-check-driven traffic management
• Experience supporting a federal agency
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

General Physical Requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job may vary based on the location of the assignment.

• Assignment Location - Remote
• Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Typing, communicating, repetitive motions.
• Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data, view computer monitors and read. May need to view presentation screens and other visual aids in a virtual setting.
• Inside environmental conditions with protection from outside elements.

Security: Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance

• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years

Federal Civilian Public Trust Consists of a review of up to but not limited to:

• Covers 10 year period and in some instances lifetime events
• OPM Security Investigations Index (SII)
• DOD Defense Central Investigations Index (DCII)
• National Agency Check (NAC) records
• FBI name check
• FBI fingerprint check
• Credit report check
• Written inquiries to previous employers and references listed on the application for employment
• Potential interviews with the subject, spouse, neighbors, supervisor, coworkers
• Law enforcement check
• Court records check
• Education check - Attendance and Degrees

Acceptable Credentials 

Tasks/activities include, but are not limited to:

• Supports technical implementation of the Scheduling Event Bus
• Delivers a scalable, secure, and highly available event-driven integration framework
• Designs and implements standardized, version-controlled event schemas and message contracts for all Scheduling Event Bus producers and consumers ensuring backward compatibility
• Implements enterprise security requirements for all API integrations including encryption, identity-based access controls, role-based authorization, and comprehensive audit logging per VA Risk Management Framework (RMF) requirements
• Develops and maintains the Scheduling Event Bus onboarding framework including eligibility criteria, technical integration standards, step-by-step guides, reference architecture, and sample code
• Delivers and continuously maintains Scheduling Event Bus Onboarding Documentation
• Manages all external system connections and interface control documentation
• Maintains the Platform Dependency List API section with points of contact, escalation procedures, and operational expectations
• Supports the Architecture Package with API integration diagrams, interface design patterns, and system interaction documentation
• Implements monitoring and alerting for all API integrations including event flow visibility, throughput, latency, failures, and subscriber health
• Supports multi-region API routing strategy including failover activation procedures and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)/Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) definitions for the Multi-Region Enablement Plan

Compensation & Benefits: The annual projected pay range for this position is $90,633 - $107,951 with consideration being given to various factors including but not limited to qualifications, experience, job responsibilities, and geographic location.

Oxley Enterprises, Inc. offers a full array of benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family.
• Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company.
• Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital.
• Additional Life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
• 401k plan with various options to select based on your retirement goals.

Oxley Enterprises®, Inc. is a certified service-disabled veteran-owned (SDVOSB), veteran-owned (VOSB), and woman-owned small business (WOSB) that has 26 years of experience building and delivering quality IT systems and programs. Oxley is ranked in the INC 5000 7 times (2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025). Oxley is a 2019 - 2025 Department of Labor HIRE Vets Medallion Award Winner. Oxley is Virginia Values Veterans certified.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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