Senior MuleSoft API Developer

About Credence: Credence (Credence.ai) is a premier global technology innovator and an elite government services firm dedicated to supporting mission-critical data needs for the largest defense and healthcare federal organizations across the United States. Repeatedly recognized as an exceptional place to work and maintaining a continuous 12-year standing on the prestigious Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list, we provide cutting-edge advancements in AI/ML, enterprise software modernization, and high-stakes intelligence capabilities. Operating on principles of servant leadership, our multi-disciplinary engineering collective aligns with client goals to secure tactical infrastructure and maximize operational velocity for national security.

Position Overview

We are seeking an exceptionally logical, security-minded, and system-oriented Senior MuleSoft API Developer to join our core Enterprise Modernization division under a permanent, full-time remote engagement framework within the United States. Operating as a principal technical leader, you will step up to claim absolute middleware architecture layout, enterprise service bus configuration, and endpoint synchronization accountability to power high-stakes federal integration streams. Shifting completely away from entry-level website layout coding, low-stakes customer helpdesk tracking, or basic data inputting, you will run an active high-throughput DataWeave translation, distributed system orchestration, and cloud endpoint optimization laboratory—partnering face-to-face with Solution Architects, federal business owners, database administrators, and government program teams. This position requires an engineering authority with 5+ years of Anypoint Platform experience who structures relational integration vectors fluidly natively using Backend architectures, evaluates application security tokens cleanly within strictly regulated DoD cloud modules, and directs robust API-led connectivity pipelines confidently to support national defense infrastructures.

Key Responsibilities

• Core MuleSoft Solution Architecture: Conceptualize, architect, and deliver secure, scalable, and highly available MuleSoft API architectures and enterprise integration flows connecting distributed cloud and internal networks natively utilizing Backend principles.
• Reusable Integration Engineering: Build and standardize modular, reusable service integration paths and automated processing modules, minimizing engineering redundancies across multi-tier federal datasets.
• DataWeave and Query Optimization: Author and tune advanced data translation maps using DataWeave scripting, ensuring zero latency data transformations across complex XML, JSON, and flat-file relational schemas.
• Technical Peer Mentorship: Chair detailed technical code reviews, evaluate pipeline logs persistently, and mentor software developers on MuleSoft integration standards and modern microservice benchmarks.
• Secure Endpoint Governance: Manage the architectural implementation, consumption, and monitoring of enterprise RESTful endpoints and legacy SOAP services within highly secure data fields.
• Agile Sprint Coordination: Coordinate actively inside collaborative Agile and Scrum scrum frameworks, transforming abstract government functional prerequisites into maintainable software builds.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a highly related quantitative field of study.
• A minimum of 5 years of verified professional history operating as an enterprise integration developer, software engineer, or backend systems programmer.
• Mandatory Platform Depth: Extensive, hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying enterprise integration components using the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform and DataWeave scripts.
• Proven background troubleshooting architectural bottlenecks, synchronization errors, and connection timeouts across large-scale distributed systems.
• Mandatory Certifications Portfolio: Must hold an active MuleSoft Certified Developer credential paired with an active DoD 8570 IAT Level 1 compliance certification.
• Excellent communication and collaboration strengths in English, ensuring professional documentation handoffs and technical roadmap alignment across federal teams.
• Location Context: Position features 100% remote parameters open to qualified software engineers operating from an established home workspace within the United States , with central hubs located in McLean, VA and Columbus, OH.

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• Possession of an active Federal Security Clearance is highly preferred for immediate onboarding into secure assignments.
• Direct, hands-on administrative familiarity deploying and scaling data integration pipelines within Department of Defense (DoD) cloud environments.
• Prior background collaborating side-by-side with government program directors or enterprise system owners.

What We Offer

• Vetted, Federal Technology Compensation Blueprint: Highly competitive experience-calibrated base salary package structured to attract premier middleware talent within the US software engineering market.
• Full remote workspace flexibility within the US, supplemented by access to centralized state-of-the-art office setups when preferred.
• Comprehensive health care insurance portfolio providing top-tier Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage lines for physical wellness.
• Robust financial planning provisions including a matched 401(k) retirement plan and optional personal IRA structures.
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) packages encompassing vacation days, paid sick leaves, and public holidays alongside paid maternity and paternity family allowances.
• Company-sponsored life insurance plans augmented by comprehensive short-term and long-term disability protection layers.
• Dedicated training, continuous learning benefits, and clear certification budgets to support your technological path.