Principal Engineer - Digital Assets
Early Warning Services2 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
Base Salary
$202k - $276k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own architecture and technical patterns for cross-border money movement and digital asset settlement systems.
- Resolve complex technical, scalability, reliability, security, and compliance challenges across distributed payment platforms.
- Lead technical product design, architecture, and department-wide technical vision.
- Partner with product management, software engineering, architecture, customers, and other cross-functional teams on strategy and roadmaps.
- Mentor and coach engineers, guide technical teams, and share engineering knowledge and best practices.
- Create and deliver technical presentations and serve as a senior point of expertise on software engineering issues and industry trends.
- Support risk management and protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or experience typically equivalent to that background.
- 15 or more years designing and developing complex software projects, including at least 8 years in the FinTech domain.
- Proven experience leading the design and evolution of complex, large-scale payment or cross-border transaction platforms in regulated environments.
- Deep technical understanding of digital asset or stablecoin-based systems, including security, scalability, and operational reliability.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and designing and building complex end-to-end systems as a full-stack developer.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle practices, development methodologies, and DevOps practices.
- Hands-on experience with Java, Java/J2EE, JUnit, Tomcat, Spring, Kafka or comparable messaging technologies, Oracle PL/SQL, JavaScript frameworks, test automation, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, repositories, and tracking tools.
- Experience with object-oriented analysis and design, database design and architectures, and cloud orchestration technologies.
- Strong communication, public speaking, presentation, mentoring, and influencing skills.
- Preferred qualifications include an M.S. or Ph.D. in computer science or another technical field; knowledge of Splunk, Altiris, Zabbix, ACH/EFT, RTP, and FedNow; AWS experience; Terraform expertise; AppDynamics experience; and additional programming experience with C#, Ruby, Python, or PHP.
- Successful completion of a background and drug screen.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model for positions in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus company HSA contributions and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) plan with a 100% company Safe Harbor Match on the first 6% deferred, immediately upon eligibility.
- Flexible time off for exempt employees or generous PTO for non-exempt employees, 11 paid company holidays, and a paid volunteer day.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave and Maven Family Planning support covering fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, and related services.
- Normal office environment with primarily sedentary computer-based work and stated physical requirements including occasional lifting up to 10 pounds.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureC#ChefGitGoogle CloudJavaJavaScriptJenkinsjQueryJUnitMavenPHPPythonRubySplunkSpring BootSubversionTerraform
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