Senior Principal Software Engineer – AWS & Cloud Architecture

Early Warning; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) retirement plan with company 6%

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking an experienced technical leader to set standards for quality across multiple teams. This hands-on role partners with product management, engineers, and customers to craft strategies, design architectures, and drive modernization across cloud-native platforms.

You will mentor teams, influence engineering approaches, and lead critical initiatives while maintaining security and risk controls in a hybrid work environment in the United States.

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 following technologies: Java RESTful Web Services (Java, J2EE, JUnit, Tomcat); 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Leadership

Public speaking

Cross-functional collaboration

SDLC & DevOps

Agile / Scrum / LEAN

Full stack development

Cloud concepts

Test automation

OOA / OOD

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Maven

Jira

Confluence

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Google Cloud

MS Azure

JAXB / Spring Boot / Spring Core

Oracle PL/SQL

Kafka / JMS

Job description

Early Warning is seeking an experienced technical leader to set standards for quality across multiple teams. This hands-on role partners with product management, engineers, and customers to craft strategies, design architectures, and drive modernization across cloud-native platforms.

You will mentor teams, influence engineering approaches, and lead critical initiatives while maintaining security and risk controls in a hybrid work environment in the United States.