Staff Software Engineer, Cross-Border Payments Platform

Early Warning Services LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage (medical, dental,视

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Early Warning Services LLC is seeking a senior engineer to design and implement core services for cross-border payments, including orchestration, reconciliation, and settlement. You will partner with product, architecture, and security teams to ensure regulatory and operational requirements are met and influence technical direction for scalable, event-driven systems across regions and partners.

The role calls for leading architecture, driving backlog and stories from design to production, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent education/experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of core services supporting cross-border payments, including transaction orchestration, reconciliation, and settlement components.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, and Security teams to ensure solutions meet regulatory, fraud, and operational requirements.
• Influence technical direction and standards for scalable, event-driven payment systems operating across regions and partners.
• Build technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with forward-looking approaches that solve large, open-ended problems.
• Participate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs.
• Drive technical architecture, design, prototyping, and implementation in support of product needs and overall technology strategy.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise to build a technical plan and backlog of stories, and ensure execution from design to production delivery.
• Guide a broad functional area and lead efforts with the functional team and overall planning.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional sessions and present arguments to persuade others; adapt strategies to influence alignment or behavior change.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize and build new features and product descriptions.
• Own features or systems and define their long-term health, while improving surrounding systems.
• Assist support and operations teams in identifying and quickly resolving production issues.
• Develop and implement tests to ensure quality, performance, and scalability of the application.
• Seek opportunities to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Skills

Distributed systems

SaaS

Cloud solutions

Microservices

Docker

Frontend frameworks

Java/Spring

CI/CD

DevOps

Event-driven architecture

Regulatory/compliance

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

MS or PhD

Tools

Docker

Angular/React

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Early Warning Services LLC is seeking a senior engineer to design and implement core services for cross-border payments, including orchestration, reconciliation, and settlement. You will partner with product, architecture, and security teams to ensure regulatory and operational requirements are met and influence technical direction for scalable, event-driven systems across regions and partners.

The role calls for leading architecture, driving backlog and stories from design to production, and