Principal Engineer - Digital Assets

About the role

This position is a hands-on, individual contributor technical leader involved in setting the standards ensuring excellence in quality of outputs across multiple teams. It involves resolving complex technical and scalability challenges across distributed, regulated payment platforms. The role includes mentoring engineers and guiding teams in building secure, resilient, and compliant global payment solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own architectural design and technical patterns for cross-border money movement and digital asset settlement systems.
• Resolve complex technical and scalability challenges across distributed, regulated payment platforms.
• Mentor engineers and guide teams in building secure, resilient, and compliant global payment solutions.
• Partner with product management to craft product strategy, create product descriptions, and ensure alignment to technology roadmaps.
• Be a thought leader: a senior point of expertise on software engineering issues, industry trends, and developing technologies.
• Work closely with customers to understand their needs and create a partnership for making Early Warning products better.
• Collaborate and build relationships cross-functionally to influence and motivate others; serve as an internal catalyst for progressive, strategic, and successful change management.
• Takes ownership for creating technical product design and architecture.
• Create and conduct presentations for small-to-medium size groups.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Requirements

Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field. Fifteen or more years of experience in designing and developing complex software projects with at least eight or more years in FinTech domain. Proven experience leading the design and evolution of complex, large-scale payment or cross-border transaction platforms in regulated environments. Deep technical understanding of digital asset or stablecoin-based systems, including security, scalability, and operational reliability considerations. Experience in leading cross-functional teams to create technical solutions. Effective communicator with exceptional public speaking skills. Comfortable presenting to all levels within the company. Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices. Proven track record designing and building complex end-to-end systems (full stack developer). Hands-on experience in designing and developing using the one or more of the following technologies: Java RESTful Web Services (Java, J2EE, JUnit, and Tomcat.), Microservices Architecture, Open Source Frameworks - Spring boot, Spring Core, Messaging frameworks such as Kafka, Tibco EMS or JMS, Oracle PL/SQL, JavaScript and scripting frameworks (JQuery, AngularJS), Test automation at various levels of testing (unit, component, integration and functional tests), Solid understanding of modern Cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or MS Azure. Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git, SVN), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla) and Wikis (e.g. Confluence).

Qualifications

Knowledge of Splunk, Altiris & Zabbix. Hands-on Experience in working with AWS. Experience with various Database design and architectures. Expertise in TerraForm and/or other cloud orchestration technologies. Experience with Monitoring & Alerting systems like AppDynamics. Experience with other computer languages like C#, Ruby, Python, and PHP. Knowledge of ACH/EFT. Knowledge of real time payment networks (RTP, FedNow).

Skills

Deep technical understanding of digital asset or stablecoin-based systems, including security, scalability, and operational reliability considerations. Effective communicator with exceptional public speaking skills. Comfortable presenting to all levels within the company. Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices. Proven track record designing and building complex end-to-end systems (full stack developer). Hands-on experience in designing and developing using the one or more of the following technologies: Java RESTful Web Services (Java, J2EE, JUnit, and Tomcat.), Microservices Architecture, Open Source Frameworks - Spring boot, Spring Core, Messaging frameworks such as Kafka, Tibco EMS or JMS, Oracle PL/SQL, JavaScript and scripting frameworks (JQuery, AngularJS), Test automation at various levels of testing (unit, component, integration and functional tests), Solid understanding of modern Cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or MS Azure. Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git, SVN), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla) and Wikis (e.g. Confluence).

Benefits

Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses. 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility. Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day. 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work. And SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!