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Early Warning® · 16 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer - Digital Assets

Chicago

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$174K/yr - $223K/yr

10+ years exp

Early Warning Services has powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with innovative solutions. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership in designing and delivering cross-border and digital asset-enabled payment platforms.

Financial ServicesFraud DetectionPaymentsRisk Management

No H1B

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 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

Qualification

Distributed systemsDigital asset architecturesJava/SpringCloud infrastructureEvent-driven architectureMicroservicesFront-end solutionsCI/CD practicesAgile methodologiesCollaborationProblem-solvingTechnical leadership

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

Demonstrated experience designing and delivering distributed systems for payments, cross-border money movement, or financial platforms

Working knowledge of digital asset–enabled architectures, including settlement models, transaction orchestration, or event-driven payment systems

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 – Unlimited 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

Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.