Sr. Staff Engineer - Digital Assets

Job Overview

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting‑edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze, and so much more.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model.

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

This position leads technical strategy and architecture for complex cross‑border and digital asset payment capabilities, driving consistency, quality, and long‑term health across multiple engineering teams.

• Partner 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.
• Own architectural design and technical patterns for cross‑border money movement and digital asset settlement systems.
• Resolve complex technical and scalability challenges across distributed, regulated payment platforms.
• Mentor engineers and guide teams in building secure, resilient, and compliant global payment solutions.
• Responsible for department‑wide design, patterns and code approaches; review and validate 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 and overall technology strategy.
• Represent engineering in cross‑functional team sessions and present sound arguments to persuade others.
• 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 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 our application.
• Develop and mentor other engineers; may serve as a technical leader for cross‑functional projects.
• Actively seek ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
• 12+ years of relevant experience.
• 9+ years in development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, micro‑services.
• Hands‑on Docker experience.
• Proven experience leading design and evolution of large‑scale payment or cross‑border transaction platforms in regulated environments.
• Deep technical understanding of digital asset or stablecoin‑based systems, including security, scalability, and operational reliability considerations.
• 2+ years in development of front‑end solutions.
• Hands‑on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React).
• 8+ years of work experience with Java/Spring; proficiency in Maven/Gradle.
• Demonstrated delivery of business‑critical systems to market.
• Ability to influence and collaborate across multiple departments.
• Experience designing and developing scalable systems.
• Experience with event‑driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ).
• Working experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure).
• Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding).
• Knowledge of SDLC best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN) and Dev Ops practices.
• Background and drug screen.

• MS or PhD.
• JavaScript and scripting frameworks experience (JQuery, Angular
  
  JS).
• Monitoring and alerting systems experience (App Dynamics).
• Computer language experience (C#, Ruby, Python, PHP).
• Knowledge of ACH/EFT.
• Knowledge of real‑time payment networks (RTP, Fed Now).
• Fin Tech experience.
• Kubernetes experience.

• Competitive medical…