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As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.\nEarly Warning follows a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.\nCandidates 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.\nOverall Purpose\nThis position is an important role in the development, test, and deployment of complex solutions.\nEssential Functions\nPartners with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience.\nOwn 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. \nResponsible for department-wide design, patterns and code approaches.\nReviews and validates effectiveness of code output from multiple teams.\nAccountable for resolving technical conflict within and between multiple teams.\nDrive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy.\nRepresent 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\nLead a broad functional area and direct efforts through the functional team members along with team’s overall planning.\nCollaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize, build new features and create product descriptions.\nActively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.\nAssist support and operations teams in identifying and quickly resolving production issues.\nDevelop and implement tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application.\nDevelop and mentor other engineers. May serve as a technical leader for cross-functional projects.\nActively seeks out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.\nSupporting the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.\nMinimum Qualifications\nEducation and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.\nTwelve or more years of relevant related experience.\nNine or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, micro services.\nHands-on Docker experience.\nTwo or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions. Hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React).\nEight or more years of work experience with Java/Spring. Proficiency in Maven/Gradle.\nDemonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market.\nAbility to influence and work in a collaborative team environment across multiple departments.\nExperience designing/developing scalable systems.\nExperience with event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc).\nWorking experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc).\nKnowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc).\nKnowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices.\nBackground and drug screen.\nPreferred Qualifications\nSystem design experience with Commerce, APIs, payment operations and/or check out functions\nAdvanced Java and Spring/Spring Boot development\n\nAWS-based application architecture\n\nHands-on system design and coding\n\nTechnical leadership for a delivery team\n\nCode and design reviews\n\nMentoring engineers\n\nLeading technical planning, decomposition, and execution\n\nCoordinating team-level engineering activities without formal people-management responsibility\n\nKnowledge of real time payment networks (RTP, FedNow)\n\nFinTech experience\n\nKubernetes experience\n\nThe base pay scale for this position in: San Francisco, CA area is $180,000 - $240,000\nPhysical Requirements\nWorking 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.\nEmployee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.\nCandidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.\nThe above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.\nSome of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness\nHealthcare 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.\n\n401(k) Retirement Plan - Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.\n\nPaid Time Off - Flexible 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.\n\n12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave\n\nMaven Family Planning - provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.\n\nAnd SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\nEarly Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. 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