Sr. Staff Engineer - Java/Spring/AWS
Early Warning Services3 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own technical strategy, architecture, design patterns, and implementation for broad or complex engineering requirements.
- Lead department-wide technical approaches, review code and designs across teams, and resolve technical conflicts.
- Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable distributed, SaaS, cloud, and microservices solutions.
- Own features and systems over their long-term health while improving surrounding systems.
- Partner with product managers, designers, architects, operations, and support teams on product development and production issue resolution.
- Lead technical planning, decomposition, execution, and cross-functional engineering efforts.
- Develop and mentor engineers and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
- Support risk management and the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or relevant experience typically obtained through equivalent education and experience.
- 12 or more years of relevant experience, including 9 or more years developing distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, or microservices.
- 8 or more years of Java/Spring development experience and proficiency with Maven or Gradle.
- Hands-on Docker experience and experience with cloud infrastructure such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.
- At least 2 years of front-end development experience with modern frameworks such as Angular or React.
- Experience delivering business-critical systems, designing scalable systems, and developing event-driven architectures using messaging frameworks such as Pub/Sub, Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
- Experience with system design, APIs, commerce, payment operations, checkout functions, or AWS-based application architecture is preferred.
- Experience with Kubernetes, real-time payment networks such as RTP or FedNow, and FinTech is preferred.
- Ability to influence across departments, lead technical planning, conduct code and design reviews, mentor engineers, and coordinate engineering activities without formal people-management responsibility.
- Background and drug screen required.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA or FSA contributions and pre-tax savings options.
- 401(k) plan with a 100% company Safe Harbor Match on the first 6% of deferral immediately upon eligibility.
- Flexible time off for exempt employees or PTO for non-exempt employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and one paid volunteer day.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Maven Family Planning support for fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, and related family needs.
- Normal office environment with primarily sedentary work and occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching.
Tech Stack
AngularApache KafkaAWSAzureDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGradleJavaKubernetesMavenRabbitMQReactSpring Boot
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About Early Warning Services
Early Warning Services builds payment networks and fraud/risk mitigation solutions for U.S. banks and credit unions. It operates the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network and is rolling out Paze, a digital wallet, alongside identity verification and account risk services. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, it is owned by a consortium of major U.S. banks and partners with thousands of financial institutions nationwide.