Principal Software Engineer - AWS

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 partnering with cross-functional teams and providing input to a broad range of initiatives. The role requires being a thought leader, a senior point of expertise on software engineering issues, industry trends, and developing technologies. It also involves coaching and mentoring team members, taking ownership for creating technical product design and architecture, and collaborating with customers to understand their needs.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Coach and mentor team members.
• Create and conduct presentations for small-to-medium size groups.
• Work closely with customers to understand their needs and create a partnership for making Early Warning products better.
• Partner with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience.
• Design / Engineer product / application service solutions in alignment with technology strategy roadmap (example, cloud, containerization, CI/CD and automated testing).
• Collaborate and build relationships cross-functionally to influence and motivate others; serve as an internal catalyst for progressive, strategic, and successful change management.
• 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.
• One to two years of experience implementing application solutions/services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing and in compliance security guidelines.
• 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).
• Background and drug screen.

Qualifications

• 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.
• One to two years of experience implementing application solutions/services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing and in compliance security guidelines.
• 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).
• Background and drug screen.

Skills

• Knowledge of Splunk, Altiris & Zabbix.
• Experience with AWS.
• 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.
• Experience with real time payment networks (RTP, FedNow).
• Experience with migrating application services from on-prem to Cloud.
• Cloud / Kubernetes certification.

Benefits

The position offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• 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!

Pay

The base pay scale for this position in Phoenix, AZ/Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $173,000 - $230,000. In San Francisco, CA, the base pay scale is: $207,000 - $276,000. Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.