Sr. Staff Engineer - Java​/SpringBoot​/AWS

Overview

At Early Warning, we've powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle and Paze. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

The base pay scale for this position in Phoenix, AZ/Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $175,000 - $225,000.

Early Warning Services, LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify.

This position is an important role in the development, test, and deployment of complex solutions.

• Partners with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience.
• Own the 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.
• Responsible for department-wide design, patterns and code approaches.
• Reviews and validates effectiveness of code output from multiple teams.
• Accountable for resolving technical conflict within and between multiple teams.
• Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy.
• 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.
• Lead a broad functional area and direct efforts through the functional team members along with the team's overall planning.
• Collaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize, 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.
• Develop and mentor other engineers. May serve as a technical leader for cross-functional projects.
• Actively seek out ways 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent education/experience.
• Twelve or more years of relevant related experience.
• Nine or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, microservices.
• Hands-on Docker experience.
• Two or more years of experience in front-end development with familiarity of modern frameworks (Angular/React).
• Eight or more years of work experience with Java/Spring; proficiency with Maven/Gradle.
• Experience 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, Rabbit
  
  MQ, etc).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc).
• Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc).
• Knowledge of SDLC best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN, etc) and Dev Ops.
• Background and drug screen required.

• AWS Cloud experience
• Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices
• Knowledge of ACH/EFT
• Knowledge of real-time payment networks (RTP, Fed Now)
• Fin Tech experience
• Kubernetes experience
• Experience defining and driving authentication and identity strategy across large-scale, multi-product ecosystems.
• Proven ability to architect and evolve enterprise-wide authentication and session management platforms.
• Deep expertise in modern authentication frameworks (FIDO2/Web Authn, federated identity, adaptive/risk-based authentication).
• Extensive experience designing large-scale OAuth2/OIDC ecosystems, including token architecture, JWT lifecycle governance, and related patterns.
• Experience designing and operationalizing enterprise-grade device trust and integrity systems.
• Strong foundation in applied cryptography and secure key management at scale.
• Production experience implementing device trust using device attestation frameworks (e.g., Apple App Attest, Device Check, Play Integrity).
• Strong working knowledge of…