Senior Staff Software Engineer, Commerce

Early Warning Services

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
ScottsdaleSan Francisco, CAChicago, ILNew York, NY
Salary
$180,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
25 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $200k
This role $210k
$140k most similar roles pay here $251k

This role pays more than 53% of similar roles. Most pay $169,050–$231,612 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $210k versus about $200k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Early Warning Services

Early Warning Services is a fintech company that operates the Zelle person-to-person payments network, the Paze digital checkout wallet, and Certos fraud prevention and identity risk solutions for financial institutions.

Early Warning Services currently has 64 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $143,500–$183,000 across 60 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer, Commerce

Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Commerce - Java/SpringBoot/AWS is a critical role focused on the development, testing, and deployment of complex solutions within the commerce domain. You will partner with engineering, product, and architecture teams to shape technical strategies, resolve cross-team conflicts, and define long-term health for core systems. Day-to-day responsibilities include designing scalable architectures, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and improving engineering standards and tooling. The role requires extensive experience in distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, and microservices. You will work with Java, Spring Boot, Maven, Gradle, and AWS infrastructure while utilizing event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks like Kafka or RabbitMQ. The position addresses complex technical challenges in payment operations, checkout functions, and real-time payment networks to ensure the security and integrity of financial data within a high-stakes commerce environment.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 802 postings across 64 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the technical strategy for complex requirements and solve large open-ended problems beyond the immediate team.
  • Establish department-wide design patterns, code approaches, and engineering standards to improve overall system health.
  • Review and validate the effectiveness of code output from multiple engineering teams.
  • Resolve technical conflicts between different teams and influence stakeholders to reach consensus on architecture.
  • Drive all aspects of technical architecture, prototyping, and implementation for both product needs and company strategy.
  • Collaborate with product managers and designers to conceptualize and build new features.
  • Develop and implement tests to ensure the quality, performance, and scalability of applications.
  • Mentor other engineers and lead technical planning, decomposition, and execution for cross-functional projects.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must possess eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.
  • A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field is typically required.
  • Relevant experience are typically required.
  • Nine or more years of experience in developing distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, and microservices are required.
  • Eight or more years of work experience with Java/Spring and proficiency in Maven/Gradle are required.
  • Experience designing scalable systems, event-driven architecture, messaging frameworks, and cloud infrastructure is required.
  • Knowledge of mature engineering practices, SDLC best practices, and DevOps practices is required.
  • System design for commerce or payment operations and knowledge of real-time payment networks are preferred.

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