Principal Engineer, Zelle Client Solutions (Java, AWS)

Early Warning (Zelle); San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Early Warning is a leading payments company known for innovative solutions like Zelle and Paze. We are seeking a hands-on technical leader to guide multiple teams, set architectural standards, and stay current with industry best practices.

You will partner with product management, mentor engineers, and drive complex software initiatives with a focus on reliability, security, and scalability across our FinTech platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Fifteen+ years of experience in complex software projects, with 8+ years in FinTech.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and public speaking skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product management to craft product strategy and roadmaps.
• Serve as a senior technical expert on software engineering issues and trends.
• Own technical product design and architecture.
• Mentor team members and present to groups.

Skills

Java

RESTful services

Microservices

AWS

CI/CD

Public speaking

Leadership

SDLC knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

Jenkins

Tomcat

Spring Boot

Kafka

Terraform

Job description

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.

Overall Purpose

This position is a hands‑on, individual contributor technical leader involved in setting the standards ensuing excellence in quality of outputs across multiple teams. Responsible for partnering with cross functional teams and providing input to a broad range of initiatives. A technical expert that is continuously learning and keeping abreast of new technologies and industry best practices and finding ways to bring those practices into the engineering organization.

Essential Functions

• Partners with product management to craft product strategy, create product descriptions and ensure alignment to technology roadmaps.
• Be a thought leader: a senior point of expertise on software engineering issues, industry trends and developing technologies. Be a role model to others on the team. Coach and mentor team members.
• Takes ownership for creating technical product design and architecture.
• Creates and conducts presentations for small-to-medium size groups.
• Works closely with customers to understand their needs and create a partnership for developing new and making Early Warning products better.
• Partners with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience.
• Develop, scope and shape a departmental-wide technical vision for the future.
• Collaborate and build relationships cross-functionally to influence and motivate others; serve as an internal catalyst for progressive, strategic and successful change management.
• Support the company's commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Fifteen or more years of experience in designing and developing complex software projects with at least eight or more years in FinTech domain.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams to create technical solutions.
• Effective communicator with exceptional public speaking skills. Comfortable presenting to all levels within the company.
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices
• Proven track record designing and building complex end-to-end systems (full stack developer)
• Hands‑on experience in designing and developing using the one or more of the following technologies Java RESTful Web Services (Java, J2EE, JUnit, and Tomcat.)
• Experience in Microservices Architecture.
• Open Source Frameworks - Spring boot, Spring Core
• Messaging frameworks such as Kafka, Tibco EMS or JMS
• Oracle PL/SQL
• JavaScript and scripting frameworks (JQuery, AngularJS)
• Hands‑on Experience designing and working with AWS is required
• Hands‑on experience in test automation at various levels of testing (unit, component, integration and functional tests).
• Proven experience in OOA/OOD.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation including GIT, Chef,Maven, Jenkins etc
• Solid understanding of modern Cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or MS Azure.
• Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git, SVN), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla) and Wikis (e.g. Confluence)
• Background and drug screen.

Preferred Qualifications

• M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field
• Knowledge of Splunk, Altiris & Zabbix
• Experience with various Database design and architectures
• Expertise in TerraForm and/or other cloud orchestration technologies
• Experience with Monitoring & Alerting systems like AppDynamics
• Experience with other computer languages like C#, Ruby, Python, and PHP
• Knowledge of ACH/EFT
• Knowledge of real time payment networks(RTP, FedNow)

Physical Requirements

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires