Senior Staff Engineer, Global Payments Architecture

Early Warning

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 175,000 - 220,000

Full time

47 hours ago
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Healthcare Coverage
401(k) Retirement Plan
Paid Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
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Job summary

Early Warning is seeking a senior engineer to lead the technical strategy and architecture for cross-border and digital asset payment capabilities. The role drives consistency, quality, and long-term health across multiple engineering teams.

You will mentor engineers, shape patterns for secure and scalable global payment solutions and work with product managers and other groups to deliver new features in a regulated environment. Hybrid model across multiple cities.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
  • Twelve or more years of relevant related experience.
  • Nine or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, micro services.
  • Hands-on Docker experience.
  • Proven experience leading the design and evolution of complex, large-scale payment or cross-border transaction platforms in regulated environments.
  • Deep technical understanding of digital asset or stablecoin-based systems, including security, scalability, and operational reliability considerations.
  • Two or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions. Hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React).
  • Eight or more years of work experience with Java/Spring. Proficiency in Maven/Gradle.

Responsibilities

  • Shape engineering approaches with product and architecture teams.
  • Own the technical strategy for broad or complex requirements across teams.
  • Architect cross-border money movement and digital asset settlement systems.
  • Resolve complex scalability challenges across distributed payment platforms.
  • Mentor engineers and promote secure, resilient global payment solutions.
  • Define long-term health of features or systems and improve surrounding systems.
  • Lead cross-functional collaborations to design and build new features.
  • Develop tests to ensure performance and scalability of the application.

Skills

Docker
Java/Spring
Distributed systems
Cloud platforms
Event-driven architecture
Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kafka
RabbitMQ
Pub/Sub
Go Lang
GoLang/Java

Job description

Early Warning is seeking a senior engineer to lead the technical strategy and architecture for cross-border and digital asset payment capabilities. The role drives consistency, quality, and long-term health across multiple engineering teams.

You will mentor engineers, shape patterns for secure and scalable global payment solutions and work with product managers and other groups to deliver new features in a regulated environment. Hybrid model across multiple cities.

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