Principal Software Engineer - Ecommerce - Java/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 is seeking a hands-on technical leader to set standards across engineering teams and partner with product, architecture, and customers. You will own design and architecture for scalable cloud services, drive DevOps practices, and mentor engineers while staying current with industry trends.

Ideal candidates have extensive FinTech experience, strong Java/Spring skills, and a proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives in a fast‑paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field required.
• 15+ years designing and developing complex software, 8+ years FinTech domain.
• Experience building cloud apps with containers, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and public speaking skills; able to present to all levels.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product management to align strategy with tech roadmaps.
• Serve as a senior expert on software engineering issues and trends.
• Own technical design and architecture for product and services.
• Develop, scope and shape a departmental technical vision.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to drive change and improvements.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud architecture

Microservices

DevOps practices

SDLC & Agile/LEAN

Public speaking

Cross-functional collaboration

Java / J2EE

Spring Boot

RESTful services

Kafka / JMS

Oracle PL/SQL

CI/CD tooling

Git / Jira / Bugzilla

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Jira

Bugzilla

Confluence

Tomcat

J2EE

SQL/Oracle

Kubernetes

Docker

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.
• Typically, 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

• System design experience with Commerce, APIs, payment operations and/or check out functions
• Advanced Java and Spring/Spring Boot development
• AWS-based application architecture
• Hands‑on system design and coding
• Technical leadership for a delivery team
• Code and design reviews
• Mentoring engineers
• Leading technical planning,