Principal Software Engineer - AWS

Early Warning (Zelle); San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Early Warning in the U.S. payments space seeks a hands-on technical leader to set engineering standards across multiple teams. You will partner with product management to align roadmaps, design robust architectures, and mentor engineers.

You will drive cloud and containerization strategies, implement CI/CD and automated testing, and ensure secure, scalable solutions for FinTech products. Strong communication and leadership are essential in this high-impact role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Fifteen+ years designing and developing complex software, with at least eight years in FinTech.
• 1-2 years of experience implementing cloud solutions with containerization, CI/CD, automated testing, and security guidelines.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to create technical solutions.
• Effective communicator with strong public speaking skills across all levels.

Responsibilities

• Partners with product management to craft product strategy, create descriptions and align to technology roadmaps.
• Be a thought leader: senior expertise on software engineering issues and industry trends; coach and mentor team members.
• Takes ownership for technical product design and architecture.
• Creates and conducts presentations for small-to-medium size groups.
• Works closely with customers to understand needs and build partnerships for better Early Warning products.
• Partners with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches and share knowledge.
• Develop, scope and shape a departmental-wide technical vision for the future.
• Design/Engineer product/service solutions aligned with cloud, containerization, CI/CD and automated testing.
• Collaborate and build relationships cross-functionally to influence and motivate others; drive change management.
• Support risk management and data integrity commitments.

Skills

Software architecture

Mentorship

Public speaking

SDLC

Java

Microservices

CI/CD

AWS

GCP/Azure

Jenkins

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Git

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

Maven

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

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 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.
• Design / Engineer product / application service solutions in alignment with technology strategy roadmap (example, cloud, containerization, CI/CD and automated testing) keeping futuristic business growth, ease of maintenance, operational readiness and self-service enabled.
• 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.
• 1-2 years of experience implementing application solutions/ services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing and in compliance security guidelines
• 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 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
• Hands-on Experience in working with AWS
• Experience with various Database design and architectures
• Expertise in TerraForm and/or other cloud orchestration technologies
• Experience with Monitoring & Alerting systems like AppDynamics
• Experie