Software Engineer - Java​/AWS

Early Warning® invites you to apply for the Staff Software Engineer – Java / AWS role.

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 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.

Locations:
Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, New York – we follow a hybrid work model to promote collaboration.

Eligibility:
You must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire. The position does not offer visa sponsorship.

Contribute to development, testing and deployment of complex solutions.

• 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.
• Participate in strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs.
• 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 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 present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others, adapting to the situation and influencing people to reach 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.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Lead infrastructure‑as‑code projects, designing APIs and building tools to be used by engineering teams for reliable and repeatable cloud deployments.
• Implement abstractions to simplify the complexities of cloud providers (AWS), open‑source technologies (Kubernetes), and internal EWS infrastructure.
• Obsess about the usability of the systems you build, allowing engineers to have an intuitive and predictable experience working with infrastructure at scale.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure problems, often spanning multiple layers of the stack and requiring collaboration across teams.
• Experience designing cloud infrastructure for robustness, security, and observability.
• Expertise in infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and continuous deployment pipelines.
• Expertise in AWS foundations including compute, networking, storage, observability and security. Experience in automating AWS services using Terraform and Ansible. Experience in highly scalable distributed datacenter or cloud computer systems (AWS, Azure, VM).
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, IAM, ELB, Route
  53, S3, Lambda, Cloud Formation, Dynamo
  
  DB).
• Experience architecting Kubernetes‑based systems.
• Container orchestration – Kubernetes, TKGi, EKS, ECS.
• Proficient with using and debugging networks, DNS, HTTP, TLS, load‑balancing, build systems, Linux, and Docker.
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience building and scaling workflow pipelines.
• Experience in data center operations, monitoring, alerting, and notifications.

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Ten or more years of relevant related…