Sr. Software Engineer

The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the RTP Product Engineering team.

You will design, develop, and enhance our real-time interbank payment platform, delivering reliable, scalable software and new features using Java, Spring, and cloud-native technologies. You will work with RTP Product teams and the Director of Product Engineering to ensure high quality, on-time delivery, while improving performance, security, and resiliency of critical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/IS/CE/Data Science or related fields.
• 8+ years in Java software development, with Spring/Spring Boot.
• Expertise in cloud-native architectures, microservices, containers, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or other major public clouds (serverless/managed services).
• Experience implementing event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar).
• Proficient in Python for data pipelines, ML, and automation.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical partners; collaborative team player.
• Willingness to travel up to 10% between NYC and NC offices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain highly reliable software for real-time payment processing.
• Serve as a senior technical contributor across the SDLC.
• Develop components in Java using Spring frameworks.
• Build applications on AWS cloud-native services and event-driven stacks.
• Develop Python scripts for data automation and integration services.
• Design and implement services and APIs with modern engineering patterns.
• Contribute to scalability, availability, security, and maintainability decisions.
• Automate build/test/deploy and infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for deployments.
• Maintain observability and incident readiness for mission-critical systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and uphold engineering standards.

Skills

Java development

Spring/Spring Boot

Cloud-native architectures

AWS

Event-driven architectures

Python for data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Position summary :

The Clearing House (TCH) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our RTP Product Engineering team. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and enhancing our critical real-time interbank payment platform, including development of new applications and features while improving the functionality, reliability, and performance of existing applications. The Senior Software Engineer works directly with RTP Product teams and the Director of Product Engineering to ensure quality deliverables are completed on time and in accordance with TCH standards. The Senior Software Engineer also works closely with Operations and Technology to define and implement new maintainability features and to ensure system resiliency. This role is well suited for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, building highly reliable systems, and delivering innovative applications that operate at the core of financial infrastructure. The organization is actively transforming its payment platforms toward cloud-native, distributed architectures while introducing modern automation and AI-assisted engineering practices into its software development lifecycle. TCH values engineers who are technically curious, pragmatic, and interested in understanding how complex systems work, end to end. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on software engineer who has strong Java development experience, deep expertise in distributed application architectures, and an avid interest in building critical systems where performance, security, resiliency, and sustainability are vital for success.

Essential functions and responsibilities :

• Design, develop, test, and maintain highly reliable software supporting real-time payment processing
• Serve as a senior technical contributor across the complete software development lifecycle
• Develop software components primarily in Java, leveraging frameworks such as Spring and Spring Boot
• Develop critical applications using AWS cloud-native services and event-driven architectures, including containerized and serverless stacks for streaming data and real-time messaging
• Develop Python scripts and programs as needed for data automation and integration services
• Design and implement services and APIs using modern software engineering principles and patterns
• Participate in architecture and technical design decisions involving scalability, availability, resiliency, security, and maintainability
• Develop and maintain automated build, test, deployment, and infrastructure processes using CI/CD pipelines for engineering and software quality automation
• Apply Infrastructure as Code practices for cloud deployments using software tools such as Terraform
• Apply observability, monitoring, fault handling, and operational readiness practices appropriate for mission-critical systems
• Participate in troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex application and production issues
• Mentor less experienced engineers and contribute to engineering standards, secure development practices, peer code reviews, and architectural best practices.
• Work closely with product, architecture, infrastructure, security, operations, and other engineering teams, following an agile development methodology as part of a scrum team
• Use approved AI-assisted development tools to improve software design, development, testing, documentation, and engineering productivity while following enterprise SDLC and security controls.

Qualifications required :

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or related fields
• 8+ years in Java software development experience including analysis, design, development, documentation, implementation and testing of systems, preferably using Spring or Spring Boot
• Expertise in cloud-native application architectures, microservices, containers, and distributed systems
• Hands-on experience developing solutions using managed services and serverless technologies on AWS or another major public cloud provider
• Experience implementing event-driven architectures with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging or data streaming technologies
• Working knowledge of Python for data pipelines and analysis, machine learning, and automation
• Ability to communicate clearly with highly technical leaders as well as non-technical partners
• Collaborative team player that connects across groups with proven ability to influence stakeholders
• Positive track record of delivering large scale complex projects and enterprise software solutions
• Ability to travel up to 10% between NYC and NC offices

Qualifications desired :

• Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related fields
• AWS Certification as Associate or Professional Developer, Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer
• Certification as an Agile Service or Product Owner and familiarity with tools such as Jira
• Hands-on experience with