Sr. Software Engineer - Java​/AWS

Senior Staff Software Engineer – Java/AWS at Early Warning®

Early Warning has powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting‑edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and 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 are located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York and follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment. Candidates must independently possess eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire; this position is ineligible for visa sponsorship.

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

• Partners with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience.
• Owns 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.
• Reviews and validates effectiveness of code output from multiple teams.
• Accountable for resolving technical conflict within and between multiple teams.
• Drives all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy.
• Represents engineering in cross‑functional team sessions and presents sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others, adapting to the situation and drawing from a range of strategies to influence people in a way that results in agreement or behavior change.
• Leads a broad functional area and directs efforts through the functional team members along with the team’s overall planning.
• Collaborates and partners with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize, build new features and create product descriptions.
• Actively owns features or systems and defines their long‑term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• Assists support and operations teams in identifying and quickly resolving production issues.
• Develops and implements tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application.
• Develops and mentors other engineers; may serve as a technical leader for cross‑functional projects.
• Actively seeks out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• 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.
• 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, Rabbit
  
  MQ, 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 Dev Ops practices.
• Background and drug screen.

• MS or PHD
• Recent AWS Cloud experience
• Monitoring and Alerting systems experience (App Dynamics)
• Computer language experience (C#, Ruby, Python, and PHP)
• Knowledge of ACH/EFT
• Knowledge of real time payment networks (RTP, Fed Now)
• Fin Tech…