Hiring: Manager, API Platform Engineering Company: UFCU Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 14:48:17 Employment Type: Contract / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : .NET, API Design, Agile, Azure, C#, CI/CD, Change Management, Datadog, Encryption, Grafana, Java, Kanban, Kubernetes, Microservices, OAuth2, OIDC, OpenAPI, REST, RESTful, Scrum, Stakeholder Management About the job Experience: •5+ years leading engineering teams (people management, delivery accountability, coaching/development). •Proven experience delivering and operating enterprise APIs and/or integration platforms in production environments. •Demonstrated experience leading architecture reviews and enforcing engineering standards (design patterns, security, reliability). •Demonstrated capacity to work hybrid with 2-3 days/week on-site in the Austin, TX area. •Willingness and ability to lead incident response when necessary. Required Skills: •University Federal Credit Union (UFCU) is seeking a Manager, API Platform Engineering to lead a technical team to deliver UFCU’s enterprise service layer—a portfolio of APIs, integrations/orchestrations, and enterprise microservices used by internally developed applications, AI initiatives, and approved third-party vendors/partners. •Reporting to the Director of Platform Engineering, this is a hands-on, “player-coach” technical leadership role that blends people management with architecture accountability. You will be responsible for architecture reviews and sign-off, platform governance, delivery execution, and 24/7 operational readiness. •API & Integration development on the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: API development, integration patterns, orchestration, policy enforcement, and runtime operations. •Enterprise Microservices (Kubernetes/Azure): microservices deployed to Kubernetes (AKS preferred) using Azure cloud services and enterprise engineering standards. •This role supports a hybrid work model with 2-3 days per week on-site at the UFCU Plaza building, and manager a core team of 5–7 FTE’s, scaling with contractor resources as needed. •Our Credit Union was founded in 1936 and has grown to serve members throughout Texas and beyond. At UFCU, we are more than just a financial institution, and our people are more than just employees. We are dedicated to our purpose of empowering our Members to achieve financial success and build brighter futures •In Pursuit Of Our Aspiration That UFCU Is Loved By Millions Of Members And Built To Thrive For Generations, We Are Guided By Our Values •We are driven by a profound sense of empathy to deeply understand our Members’ needs and preferences, what brighter futures means to them, and the obstacles in their way. We act in our Members’ best interests, forever seeking to empower their financial success. Qualifications: •Strong leadership capability with a platform mindset—building reusable, well-governed services that enable other teams. •RESTful design, versioning strategies, lifecycle management, security policies, throttling, documentation, and governance •Applied hands-on capability in C#/.NET. •Solid understanding of integration and orchestration patterns, including synchronous/asynchronous approaches, retries, dead-letter handling, and resiliency. •Service boundaries, reliability patterns (timeouts, circuit breakers), data ownership considerations, performance, and scalability •Demonstrated ability to perform architecture reviews and provide technical sign-off without creating delivery bottlenecks. •Incident response leadership, escalation management, postmortems, and continuous improvement •CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code quality gates, security scanning, and deployment strategies •Demonstrated capacity to translate technical tradeoffs into business impact and align cross-functional partners Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!