Axos Bank
Axos Bank
1,001 – 5,000 Employees
H1B Visa SponsorBankingFinanceFintech
Axos Bank is a digital-focused financial institution serving individuals and businesses through personal banking, commercial lending, and investment services. Its offerings include checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, mortgages, personal and auto loans, and high-yield savings products. Customers can manage accounts, payments, and investments through Axos Bank’s online and mobile banking tools, supported by data protection measures designed for secure digital finance.

API Architect (Apigee X and AI Gateway) – San Diego Onsite

Lead enterprise API governance across Apigee X, AI gateways, and MCP services. Help build secure, compliant banking technology for Axos Bank’s digital platform.

Description

  • Own the strategy, governance, and ongoing evolution of Axos Bank’s enterprise API platform as a secure AI gateway
  • Design and operate Apigee X governance for REST and SOAP services, LLM proxies, and MCP servers
  • Set and enforce solution standards, risk tiers, approval and promotion gates, observability requirements, and compliance attestations
  • Shape enterprise API and AI consumption practices covering model routing, token-aware rate limits, semantic caching, and LLM cost attribution
  • Establish MCP server controls for authentication, auditing, rate limiting, and policy enforcement
  • Deploy AI safety measures for prompt injection, PII detection and redaction, jailbreaks, and response filtering
  • Define LLM API standards for provider abstraction, failover, logging, and red-team testing
  • Develop security and compliance protocols aligned with financial services regulations and emerging AI guidance
  • Design scalable microservice and AI-agent integration architectures
  • Build performance, reliability, and observability strategies incorporating token telemetry, model-latency tracking, and SLO management
  • Work with the Center of Excellence on enablement patterns for citizen developers and AI agents
  • Implement Apigee X proxies, shared flows, Model Armor templates, and MCP server integrations
  • Oversee performance management, professional development, team capability building, resource allocation, and project planning
  • Coach engineers on Apigee X policies, MCP protocol patterns, and LLM integration practices
  • Provide hands-on engineering for Apigee proxies, shared flows, MCP integrations, and AI policy configuration as needed

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of enterprise API architecture experience, including 1 or more years with Apigee X or another AI-capable gateway
  • Practical knowledge of Apigee platforms, including proxies, shared flows, policy chains, environments, and Google Cloud integrations
  • Production experience designing, deploying, or governing LLM API integrations such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI, or AWS Bedrock
  • Working knowledge of Model Context Protocol, including server patterns, tool and resource exposure, stdio and HTTP/SSE transports, and authentication models
  • Understanding of AI security threats—including prompt injection, tool-call data exfiltration, indirect injection, and jailbreaks—and gateway controls that address them
  • Demonstrated success delivering work across multiple functions
  • Experience with Python, Java, or Node.js, plus the ability to read and modify Apigee policy XML and JavaScript and prototype LLM client and MCP server code
  • Experience with microservices and cloud architecture, especially Google Cloud services including Apigee X, Vertex AI, IAM, and VPC
  • Advanced knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, mTLS, JWT, and API security protocols, including their use in AI-agent authentication and delegated access
  • Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for API proxies and policy artifacts with promotion controls for AI-impacting changes
  • Preferred certifications include Apigee Certified Professional; Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Machine Learning Engineer; AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud architecture certification; TOGAF or comparable enterprise architecture certification; and an AI governance or responsible AI credential such as IAPP AIGP
  • Preferred qualifications include financial services technology experience with BSA, GLBA, CCPA, and SR 11-7 model-risk considerations for generative AI; hands-on Apigee X AI/ML proxy, Model Armor, and Vertex AI work; production MCP server experience; governance across traditional and AI workloads; Terraform and API deployment tooling expertise; GitHub Actions or equivalent; LLM evaluation, prompt management, and red-team experience; and practical engineering across API and AI domains
  • Employment offers require successful credit, criminal background, and pre-employment drug screening, including marijuana screening
  • Must meet U.S. employment eligibility verification requirements through E-Verify

Benefits

  • Eligible for a 10% annual discretionary cash bonus target
  • Eligible for a 10% annual discretionary restricted stock unit bonus target
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage
  • Paid sick leave, three weeks of vacation, and approximately 11 paid holidays
  • HSA or FSA access plus other voluntary benefits
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer matching and a 529 savings plan
  • Employee mortgage loan program
  • Complimentary access to an Axos Bank account with self-directed trading

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