Principal Software Engineer - AWS

Early Warning (Zelle); Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking a hands-on, senior technical leader in Scottsdale with extensive FinTech software experience. You will partner with product management to shape roadmaps, own architectural design, and mentor multiple teams across the engineering organization.

The role emphasizes cloud, containerization, CI/CD, automated testing, and secure, scalable software. Excellent communication and leadership skills are required to drive change and align stakeholders.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Partner with product management to align strategy and roadmaps.
• Serve as a technical expert and mentor for the team.
• Own technical design and architecture for products and services.
• Create presentations for groups and engage with customers to refine needs.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and architecture to shape approaches.
• Develop and drive a departmental technical vision and roadmap.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud architecture

Java RESTful services

Microservices

CI/CD

Public speaking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

MS/PhD in CS (preferred)

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Maven

Jira

Confluence

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.

The above job description is a summary of job responsibilities and is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform tasks and other duties as assigned by their supervisor.

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