Overview :

- Location: Hyderabad, India
- Salary: N/A

About Us : Synchrony is more than a financial services company, we’re a team of passionate innovators committed to delivering best-in-class solutions that support millions of customers across the U.S. With a bold focus on technology, data, and digital innovation, we create meaningful experiences that simplify lives and enable financial wellness.

When you join Synchrony, you become part of an inclusive culture where your voice matters, your growth is championed, and your work drives impactful results.

- Job ID
- 2602525
- Category
- Technology
- Date posted
- 09/17/2026

Role Title : AVP, Principal API Engineer - Digital (L11)**

Organizational Overview : Synchrony’s Treasury Engineering Team is a dynamic and creative group focused on delivering technology solutions that support critical financial operations at scale. As part of this team, you will help design, build, and modernize platforms that enable secure, reliable, and productive treasury capabilities across the enterprise.

Treasury Engineering supports complex financial processes that may appear simple to customers and business users, but operate behind the scenes with significant scale, precision, and resilience. From managing high-volume payment flows to enabling accurate funding, reconciliation, liquidity, and settlement processes, our systems help ensure transactions move smoothly and reliably around the clock.

The team leverages modern engineering practices, automation, cloud-native technologies, data-driven insights, and resilient architecture to manage the continuous flow of financial information across millions of accounts and transactions. Our work is essential to maintaining operational excellence, improving efficiency,



and supporting Synchrony’s broader financial ecosystem.

We foster a collaborative environment where engineers are encouraged to solve complex problems, innovate, and grow their careers. If you are passionate about building scalable financial technology, driving automation, and shaping the future of treasury platforms, Synchrony’s Treasury Engineering Team is the place to be.

Role Summary/Purpose : This person will own the engineering quality bar for 1-2 delivery teams, driving excellence across cloud engineering practices, distributed system design, Java and Python development, Spring Boot services, Kafka-based event architectures, testing, evaluations, CI/CD, observability, and on-call readiness . They are expected to write code approximately 60% of the time while leading design reviews, mentoring engineers, establishing patterns, and ensuring delivery teams build solutions that are resilient, maintainable, and production-ready.

Key Responsibilities :

- Own the engineering quality bar for 1-2 teams by setting standards for architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, runbooks, and on-call readiness.
- Write hands-on production code using Java, Spring Boot, Python, Kafka, APIs, and cloud-native design patterns , while mentoring engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and pairing.
- design thinking to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, guiding discovery, prototyping, validation,



and iterative delivery.
- Integrate with enterprise platform capabilities such as model gateways, tool/service registries, memory stores, guardrails, identity services, evaluation frameworks, and operational controls while aligning with enterprise architecture and governance standards.

Required Skills/Knowledge :

- Minimum 8+ years of understanding of distributed systems, scalability, resiliency, security, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, logging, metrics, tracing, and on-call readiness .
- Strong technical leadership and design thinking skills, with the ability to guide architecture, mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and translate business needs into scalable solutions. Knowledge of U.S. payment processing with ACH / Wires is a plus.

Desired Skills/Knowledge :

- Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Python, Kafka, microservices, APIs, and distributed system design patterns .
- Experience with agentic AI platforms and patterns , including model gateways, tool registries, memory, guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and operational controls.
- Demonstrated ability to drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, automated testing, observability, resiliency, security, and production support practices.
- Robust communication, mentoring, and design thinking skills, with the ability to influence technical direction, collaborate across product/platform/security teams, and align delivery with enterprise standards.

Eligibility Criteria : Minimum 8+Years of experience mentioned in “ Required Skill/Knowledge” with a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent. In Lieu of degree, minimum of 10 years of experience required.

Work Timings : 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM IST**

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📌 Avp, Principal Api Engineer - Digital (Hyderabad)
🏢 Synchrony
📍 Hyderabad