Staff Software Engineer - Digital Assets

About the role

This position provides technical leadership in the design and delivery of cross-border and digital asset-enabled payment platforms, solving complex problems across distributed systems and regulated payment flows.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of core services supporting cross-border payments, including transaction orchestration, reconciliation, and settlement components.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, and Security teams to ensure solutions meet regulatory, fraud, and operational requirements.
• Influence technical direction and standards for scalable, event-driven payment systems operating across regions and partners.
• Build 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.
• Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise in support of building a technical plan and backlog of stories, and then follow through on execution of design and build process through to production delivery.
• Guide a broad functional area and lead efforts through the functional team members along with the team’s overall planning.
• 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.
• Collaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize and 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.
• Actively seek 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. Eight or more years of relevant related experience. Seven or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, micro services. Hands-on Docker experience. Two or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions. Hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React). Six or more years of work experience with Java/Spring. Proficiency in Maven/Gradle. Strong understanding of blockchain architectures, cross-border payments, and distributed ledger technologies, including smart contracts, tokenized systems, and modern approaches to transaction settlement. Demonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market. Ability to influence and work in a collaborative team environment. 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.
• Eight or more years of relevant related experience.
• Seven or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, micro services.
• Hands-on Docker experience.
• Two or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions.
• Hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React).
• Six or more years of work experience with Java/Spring.
• Proficiency in Maven/Gradle.
• Strong understanding of blockchain architectures, cross-border payments, and distributed ledger technologies, including smart contracts, tokenized systems, and modern approaches to transaction settlement.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market.
• Ability to influence and work in a collaborative team environment.
• 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.

Skills

• Blockchain architectures, cross-border payments, and distributed ledger technologies, including smart contracts, tokenized systems, and modern approaches to transaction settlement.
• Scalable systems.
• Event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc).
• Cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc).
• Mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc).
• 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.

And SO much more!

We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest.

The Base Pay Scale For This Position In Phoenix, AZ/Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $124,000 - $165,000.

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.

Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate’s education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers).

The business actively supports and reviews wage equity to ensure that pay decisions are not based on gender, race, national origin, or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws.

The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.