Sr. Distinguished Engineer - Digital Assets Security

Overall Purpose

At Early Warning, we've powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle, Paze, and so much more. 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.

Candidates responding to this posting 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.

As a Sr. Distinguished Engineer you will lead the technical design, development, and delivery of Early Warning's next-generation cross-border consumer money movement platform. This new solution will leverage a range of technologies, including stable coins, to provide fast, secure, and compliant global transfers.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role, you'll be both a visionary architect and an active builder. You will define the technical strategy and architecture for the platform, collaborate across product, risk, and compliance teams, and set the engineering standard for secure and scalable digital asset infrastructure.

• Own the security architecture for Early Warning’s cross-border money movement solution, designing for scalability, security, and regulatory compliance
• Design and implement key components, from wallet management and transaction orchestration to liquidity and settlement services
• Lead the technical evaluation and integration of blockchain technologies, stablecoin protocols, and digital asset service providers
• Influence the evolution of stablecoin and blockchain protocols by contributing technical thought leadership internally and externally
• Represent Early Warning in industry collaborations, standards groups, and regulatory/technical working groups related to blockchain, digital identity, and stablecoin settlement frameworks
• Continuously evaluate emerging protocols, digital asset custody models, and zero-knowledge technology for applicability to Early Warning's roadmap
• Collaborate closely with Engineering leaders, Architecture, Security, and external partners
• Build and advocate for engineering best practices around smart contract security, transaction traceability, and system observability
• Mentor and guide engineering teams, elevating technical standards and fostering a high-performance culture
• Identify opportunities to ship value to production quickly and in incremental chunks
• Build and deliver well considered scaling solutions via strong relationships with key cross-functional stakeholders across the organization
• Partner with Product, Risk, Architecture, and Security teams to ensure end-to-end compliance (AML, KYC, OFAC, etc.) and operational integrity
• Define technical patterns, governance, and operating models
• Serve as the final escalation point for complex technical decisions
• Prototype new settlement paths, wallet models, and interoperability mechanisms
• Rapidly test and validate hypotheses with proof of concepts and performance benchmarks
• Performs other related duties as assigned

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience
• Minimum 15+ years of software engineering experience
• Minimum 10+ years of leading efforts or processes in a Technology organization, with deep experience architecting or scaling payment systems, digital asset and blockchain-based settlement solutions in regulated environments
• Minimum 5+ years of experience dealing with large scale systems
• Minimum 5+ years of experience implementing application solutions/services in the Cloud using containerization, CI/CD, automated testing, and compliant security guidelines
• Expertise with blockchain consensus mechanisms, settlement models, cryptographic primitives, and tokenization
• Demonstrated experience with payment networks, FX, liquidity, and reconciliation systems
• Exper…