Staff Software Engineer - Paze

About the role

This position is an important role in the development, test, and deployment of complex solutions. It involves building technical strategy, driving architectural decisions, leading functional areas, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Build technical strategy for broad or complex requirements
• Participate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs
• Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping, and implementation
• Provide leadership and technical expertise in support of building a technical plan and backlog of stories
• Guide a broad functional area and lead efforts through the functional team members
• Represent engineering in cross-functional team sessions and present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others
• Adapt to situations and 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
• Own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems
• Aid 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
• 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
• Six or more years of work experience with Java/Spring/SpringBoot
• Hands-on Docker experience
• Proficiency in Maven/Gradle
• 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

• MS or PHD in Computer Science or related field
• 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
• AWS, Azure (and/or other cloud-based) certification(s) preferred

Skills

• Technical strategy development
• Technical architecture and design
• Prototyping and implementation
• Leadership and technical expertise
• Collaboration and partnership
• Feature ownership and system improvement
• Production issue resolution
• Test development and implementation
• Engineering standard improvement
• Risk management and data protection

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning

Pay

The Base Pay Scale For This Position In Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $124,000 - $165,000. San Francisco, CA in USD per year is: $149,000 - $198,000. Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.