Software Engineer - Paze

Overall Purpose

At Paze, we're building a next-generation digital wallet from the ground up – not iterating on legacy systems, but rethinking how payments should work across banks, merchants, and consumers. This is a rare opportunity to operate in a startup-like environment backed by major financial institutions, where decisions you make directly shape the product, the platform, and how we scale.

We're tackling hard problems across consumer experiences, fraud, and merchant integrations – building an ecosystem that is truly seamless and highly secure. We're competing with some of the most established players in the digital payments space – which means the bar is high and the opportunity to innovate is real.

If you're excited about building foundational systems, moving fast, and having outsized impact on a product that's still being defined, this is the kind of role where you can truly make a mark. This position is an important role in the development, test, and deployment of complex solutions.

• 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 be able to present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others. Adapt 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.
• Support the company's commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Eight or more years of relevant related experience.
• Seven or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, microservices.
• Hands‑on Docker experience.
• Six or more years of work experience with Java/Spring/Spring Boot. 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 Dev Ops practices.
• Background and drug screen.

• MS or PhD.
• JavaScript and scripting frameworks experience (jQuery, AngularJS).
• Monitoring and Alerting systems experience (App Dynamics).
• Computer language experience (C#, Ruby, Python, and PHP).
• Knowledge of ACH/EFT.
• Knowledge of real time payment networks (RTP, Fed Now).
• Fin Tech experience.
• Kubernetes experience.
• AWS, Azure (and/or other…