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Early Warning® · 1 week ago

Staff Software Engineer - Java / AWS

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$145K/yr - $186K/yr

10+ years exp

Early Warning is a trusted name in payments, partnering with institutions to enhance access to financial services. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development and deployment of complex solutions, focusing on technical architecture and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Financial ServicesFraud DetectionPaymentsRisk Management

No H1B

Responsibilities

Build technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems

Participate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs

Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy

Provide leadership and technical expertise in support of building a technical plan and backlog of stories, and then follow through on execution of design and build process through to production delivery

Guide a broad functional area and lead efforts through the functional team members along with the team’s overall planning

Represent engineering in cross-functional team sessions and able to present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others. Adapts to the situation and can draw from a range of strategies to influence people in a way that results in agreement or behavior change

Collaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize and build new features and create product descriptions

Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems

Assist support and operations teams in identifying and quickly resolving production issues

Develop and implement tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application

Actively seek out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Supporting the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data

Lead infrastructure-as-code projects, designing APIs and building tools to be used by engineering teams for reliable and repeatable cloud deployments

Implement abstractions to simplify the complexities of cloud providers (AWS), open-source technologies (Kubernetes), and internal EWS infrastructure

Obsess about the usability of the systems you build, allowing engineers to have an intuitive and predictable experience working with infrastructure at scale

Troubleshooting complex infrastructure problems, often spanning multiple layers of the stack and requires working with multiple teams

Experience designing cloud infrastructure for robustness, security, and observability

Expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and continuous deployment pipelines

Expertise in AWS foundations including compute, networking, storage, observability and security. Experience in automating AWS services using Terraform and Ansible. Experience in highly scalable distributed datacenter or cloud computer systems (AWS, Azure, VM)

Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, IAM, ELB, Route53, S3, Lambda, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB)

Experience architecting Kubernetes based systems

Container orchestration - Kubernetes, TKGi, EKS, ECS

Proficient with using and debugging networks, DNS, HTTP, TLS, load-balancing, build systems, Linux, and Docker

Experience in building CI/CD pipelines

Experience building and scaling Workflow pipelines

Experience in data center operations, monitoring, alerting and notifications

Qualification

JavaAWSKubernetesInfrastructure-as-codeDockerCI/CDMicroservicesEvent-driven architectureCloud infrastructureAgileScrumSoft skills

Required

Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field

Ten or more years of relevant related experience

Seven 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)

Six 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

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

Preferred

MS or PHD

JavaScript and scripting frameworks experience (JQuery, AngularJS)

Monitoring and Alerting systems experience (AppDynamics)

Computer language experience (C#, Ruby, Python, and PHP)

Knowledge of ACH/EFT

Knowledge of real time payment networks (RTP, FedNow)

FinTech experience

Kubernetes experience

AWS, Azure (and/or other cloud-based) certification(s) strongly preferred

Benefits

Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.

401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.

Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.

12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave

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