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

Overall Purpose

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 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.
• Lead a broad functional area and direct efforts through the functional team members along with 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 seeks 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.
• 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.
• Eight 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 across multiple departments.
• 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.

• Java, Spring Boot and AWS experience.
• AWS architecture knowledge and migration experience.
• Experience with Aurora, PostgreSQL or MySQL databases.
• Monitoring and Alerting systems experience (App Dynamics or Grafana).
• Computer language experience (Java preferred).
• Knowledge of ACH/EFT.
• Knowledge of real time payment networks (RTP, Fed Now).
• Fin Tech experience.
• Kubernetes experience.

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers.

Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.