Senior Staff Engineer - Hybrid Platform Architecture Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Job summary

Early Warning Services LLC is seeking a senior engineering leader in San Francisco to drive the development, testing, and deployment of complex, scalable payments-enabled solutions. You will shape engineering strategy, own key architectural decisions, and mentor engineers across cross-functional teams.

The role requires deep experience with Java/Spring, cloud platforms, and modern front-end frameworks, along with strong leadership and DevOps discipline.

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.
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market.
• Ability to influence and work in a collaborative team environment across multiple departments.
• Experience designing/developing scalable systems.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc).
• Working experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc).
• Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc).
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices.
• Background and drug screen.

Responsibilities

• Shape engineering approaches with software engineering, product, and architecture.
• Own the technical strategy for broad or complex requirements.
• Responsible for department-wide design, patterns and code approaches.
• Review and validate code output from multiple teams.
• Drive architecture, design, and implementation in support of product needs and technology strategy.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional sessions and persuade others effectively.
• Lead a broad functional area and guide planning with the team.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to build features.
• Own features or systems and improve their long-term health.
• Assist support and operations in resolving production issues.
• Develop and implement tests for quality, performance, and scalability.
• Mentor other engineers and lead cross-functional projects.
• Seek ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Support risk management and data security commitments.

Skills

Distributed systems

SaaS

Cloud platforms

Java/Spring

Docker

Angular/React

Kubernetes

CI/CD

System design

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field

Tools

Maven/Gradle

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Google Cloud Platform

AWS

Azure

Job description

Early Warning Services LLC is seeking a senior engineering leader in San Francisco to drive the development, testing, and deployment of complex, scalable payments-enabled solutions. You will shape engineering strategy, own key architectural decisions, and mentor engineers across cross-functional teams.

The role requires deep experience with Java/Spring, cloud platforms, and modern front-end frameworks, along with strong leadership and DevOps discipline.