Senior Staff Software Engineer

Early Warning Services

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
ScottsdaleSan Francisco, CAChicago, ILNew York, NY
Employment
Full-time
Posted
72 days ago
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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 84 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer

The Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Java/Spring/AWS joins the engineering team to lead the development, testing, and deployment of complex solutions. This role involves owning technical strategies for broad requirements, defining department-wide design patterns, and resolving technical conflicts across multiple teams. You will build new features, prototype implementations, and mentor other engineers while ensuring the long-term health of distributed systems and microservices. Key technologies include Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Maven, Gradle, and AWS. You will also utilize event-driven architecture with frameworks like Kafka or RabbitMQ, alongside Kubernetes and CI/CD practices. The work focuses on delivering business-critical systems within the fintech domain, specifically addressing real-time payment networks like RTP and FedNow while maintaining high standards for risk management and data integrity.

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Median $214500 from 1157 postings across 75 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the technical strategy for complex requirements and solve large open-ended problems.
  • Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping, and implementation for product needs.
  • Review and validate the effectiveness of code output from multiple engineering teams.
  • Resolve technical conflicts within and between multiple engineering teams.
  • Lead a broad functional area and direct the planning and efforts of functional team members.
  • Develop and implement tests to ensure application quality, performance, and scalability.
  • Mentor other engineers and serve as a technical leader for cross-functional projects.
  • Identify and quickly resolve production issues in coordination with support and operations teams.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States.
  • A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field is typically required.
  • Candidates must have twelve or more years of relevant related experience.
  • Nine or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, or microservices is required.
  • Eight or more years of work experience with Java/Spring and proficiency in Maven/Gradle is required.
  • Experience is required in designing/developing scalable systems, event-driven architecture, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Knowledge of mature engineering practices, SDLC best practices, and DevOps practices is required.
  • Knowledge of real-time payment networks, FinTech experience, and Kubernetes experience is preferred.

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