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Sr. Staff Engineer - Digital Assets

Early Warning · Chicago, IL · 4 days ago
Engineering$175k–$220k/yrFull-time

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.
  • 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.
  • Supporting the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Requirements

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

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.
  • Ability 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

JavaScript and scripting frameworks experience (JQuery, AngularJS)

Monitoring and Alerting systems experience (AppDynamics)

Computer language experience (C#, Ruby, Python, and PHP)

Knowledge of ACH/EFT

Knowledge of real time payment networks(RTP, FedNow)

FinTech experience

Kubernetes experience

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.

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