Sr. Staff Engineer - Digital Assets

About the role

This position leads technical strategy and architecture for complex cross-border and digital asset payment capabilities, driving consistency, quality, and long-term health across multiple engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Partners with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience.
• Own the technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems.
• 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.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional team sessions and able to present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others.
• Adapt to the situation and can draw from a range of strategies to influence people in a way that results in agreement or behavior change.
• Lead a broad functional area and direct efforts through the functional team members along with team’s overall planning.
• Collaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize, build new features and create product descriptions.
• Accountable for resolving technical conflict within and between multiple teams.
• Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy.
• Develop and implement tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application.
• Develop and mentor other engineers. May serve as a technical leader for cross-functional projects.
• Actively seeks out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Supporting 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.
• Twelve or more years of relevant related experience.
• Nine or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, micro services.
• Hands-on Docker experience.
• 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.
• Two or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions.
• Hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React).
• Eight or more years of work experience with Java/Spring.
• Proficiency in Maven/Gradle.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market.
• Able to influence and work in a collaborative team environment across multiple departments.
• Experience designing/developing scalable systems.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc).
• Working experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc).
• Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc).
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices.
• Background and drug screen.

Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Twelve or more years of relevant related experience.
• Nine or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, micro services.
• Hands-on Docker experience.
• 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.
• Two or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions.
• Hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React).
• Eight or more years of work experience with Java/Spring.
• Proficiency in Maven/Gradle.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market.
• Able to influence and work in a collaborative team environment across multiple departments.
• Experience designing/developing scalable systems.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc).
• Working experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc).
• Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc).
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices.
• Background and drug screen.

Skills

• Hands-on Docker experience.
• 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.
• Hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React).
• Eight or more years of work experience with Java/Spring.
• Proficiency in Maven/Gradle.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market.
• Experience designing/developing scalable systems.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc).
• Working experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc).
• Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc).
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices.

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.

Pay

The Base Pay Scale For This Position In Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $175,000 - $220,000. San Francisco, CA in USD per year is: $180,000 - $240,000. Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits. This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer.

Schedule

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.