Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Java/Spring/AWS

About the Company

Early Warning has powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle® and Paze℠. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses. Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

About the Role

This position is an important role in the development, test, and deployment of complex solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with software engineering, product, and architecture teams 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.
• Responsible for department-wide design, patterns, and code approaches.
• Review and validate the effectiveness of code output from multiple teams.
• 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 and overall technology strategy.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional team sessions and present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others. Adapt to the situation and 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 the team’s overall planning.
• Collaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize, build new features, and create product descriptions.
• Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• Assist support and operations teams in identifying and quickly resolving production issues.
• 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 seek out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Requirements

• 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, and microservices.
• 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.
• Must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States for any employer at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.
• Background and drug screen.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Java and Spring/Spring Boot development.
• AWS-based application architecture.
• Hands-on system design and coding.
• Technical leadership for a delivery team.
• Code and design reviews.
• Mentoring engineers.
• Leading technical planning, decomposition, and execution.
• Coordinating team-level engineering activities without formal people-management responsibility.
• Knowledge of real-time payment networks (RTP, FedNow).
• FinTech experience.
• Kubernetes experience.

Physical Requirements

• Working conditions consist of a normal office environment.
• Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours.
• Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching.
• Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently.
• Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers.
• Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.
• Must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Pay

The base pay scale for this position is:

• Phoenix, AZ / Chicago, IL: $150,000 - $200,000 USD per year.
• San Francisco, CA: $180,000 - $240,000 USD per year.

Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan. 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.

Benefits

• 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 with a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off: Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, 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: Support through your parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.