Integration Engineer
Posted
Summary
Builds and operates integrations and automations connecting a credit union's core, ancillary, and SaaS systems, exposing them as governed, least-privilege services. Daily work uses Python, REST/SOAP APIs, an iPaaS, and AWS (Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions), with a security-first approach for a regulated financial institution.
Integration Engineer
Location: Irwindale, CA (100% remote flexibility is an option)
About the Role
Rize Credit Union is looking for an Integration Engineer to build and operate the integrations and automated processes that connect our core, ancillary, and SaaS applications. An automated process is only as capable as the systems it can reach and only as trustworthy as the controls around it, and this role owns both.
You will design, build, deploy, monitor, and retire integrations. You will also expose internal and vendor applications as governed, authenticated, least-privilege services. Working closely with our business analysts, who identify and shape automation opportunities, you will decide what should be automated, what should not, and how to do it safely in a regulated financial institution.
This position is based out of our headquarters in Irwindale, CA, with the flexibility to work 100% remotely. You will report to the Director, Business Technology.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain integrations using our iPaaS platform, REST and SOAP APIs, webhooks, event-driven patterns, and AWS services (e.g., Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions)
- Build and maintain API wrappers and connectors, with accurate specifications and documentation
- Choose the right approach for each opportunity (deterministic integration, conventional code, or a change to a human process) and document your rationale
- Establish how integrations authenticate and what they are permitted to do, including scoped IAM permissions, credential vaulting, and rotation
- Define controls and action boundaries for every integration, and treat all external data as untrusted input
- Build automated test suites and track error, latency, and failure metrics
- Instrument integrations with logging, monitoring, alerting, and runbooks so every action can be reconstructed for troubleshooting, audit, and regulatory examination
- Maintain the technical inventory of integrations, automated processes, and APIs, and retire what is unused or superseded
- Work with Information Security, Risk, and Compliance to review integrations before production release, including member data handling and third-party and open-source components
- Keep all code in source control with peer review, testing, and CI/CD, and document architecture and reusable patterns so knowledge is shared
What You Bring
- 4–7 years of experience building and operating production software, integrations, or automation, with strong hands-on Python
- Demonstrated experience integrating systems through REST APIs, including authentication patterns (e.g., OAuth 2.0, JWT, API keys), error handling, retries, idempotency, and rate limiting
- Experience deploying and supporting workloads in AWS
- Experience with version control, peer code review, automated testing, and CI/CD practices
- Working knowledge of SQL, AWS services for integration workloads, and containerization
- Sound judgment about what an automated process should and should not be permitted to do
- A security-first mindset, with default assumptions of least privilege and untrusted input
- Ability to explain the capabilities and limits of automation honestly to non-technical stakeholders, including recommending against automation when that is the right answer
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. Equivalent demonstrated experience and a reviewable portfolio of built work will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Strongly Preferred
- Financial services or credit union experience
- Administration and development on an iPaaS platform
- Event-driven architecture on AWS (e.g., SQS, SNS) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform)
- Experience with test automation, logging, and monitoring tooling
- Identity and secrets management (e.g., Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Amazon Cognito, AWS Secrets Manager) and API gateway patterns
- Familiarity with NCUA expectations and GLBA and nonpublic personal information handling
Pay
The pay range for this position in California is $87,500 – $121,000 per year. Actual pay will be based on experience, skills, and qualifications.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Rize Federal Credit Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.