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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.\nPositions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow 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\nBuild 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.\n\nParticipate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs.\n\nDrive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy.\n\nProvide 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.\n\nGuide a broad functional area and lead efforts through the functional team members along with the team’s overall planning.\n\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.\n\nCollaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize and build new features and create product descriptions.\n\nActively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.\n\nAssist support and operations teams in identifying and quickly resolving production issues.\n\nDevelop and implement tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application.\n\nActively seek out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.\n\nSupporting the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.\n\nFor Cloud Focus Only:\nLead infrastructure-as-code projects, designing APIs and building tools to be used by engineering teams for reliable and repeatable cloud deployments\nImplement abstractions to simplify the complexities of cloud providers (AWS), open-source technologies (Kubernetes), and internal EWS infrastructure\nObsess about the usability of the systems you build, allowing engineers to have an intuitive and predictable experience working with infrastructure at scale\nTroubleshooting complex infrastructure problems, often spanning multiple layers of the stack and requires working with multiple teams\nExperience designing cloud infrastructure for robustness, security, and observability\nExpertise in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and continuous deployment pipelines\nExpertise in AWS foundations including compute, networking, storage, observability and security. Experience in automating AWS services using Terraform and Ansible. Experience in highly scalable distributed datacenter or cloud computer systems (AWS, Azure, VM)\nStrong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, IAM, ELB, Route53, S3, Lambda, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB)\nExperience architecting Kubernetes based systems\nContainer orchestration - Kubernetes, TKGi, EKS, ECS\nProficient with using and debugging networks, DNS, HTTP, TLS, load-balancing, build systems, Linux, and Docker\nExperience in building CI/CD pipelines\nExperience building and scaling Workflow pipelines\nExperience in data center operations, monitoring, alerting and notifications\nMinimum Qualifications\nEducation and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.\n\nEight or more years of relevant related experience\n\nSeven or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, micro services.\n\nHands-on Docker experience.\n\nTwo or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions. Hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React)\n\nSix or more years of work experience with Java/Spring. Proficiency in Maven/Gradle.\n\nDemonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market.\n\nAbility to influence and work in a collaborative team environment.\n\nExperience designing/developing scalable systems.\n\nExperience with event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc).\n\nWorking experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc).\n\nKnowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc).\n\nKnowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices.\n\nBackground and drug screen.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nMS or PHD\n\nJavaScript and scripting frameworks experience (JQuery, AngularJS)\n\nMonitoring and Alerting systems experience (AppDynamics)\n\nComputer language experience (C#, Ruby, Python, and PHP)\n\nKnowledge of ACH/EFT\n\nKnowledge of real time payment networks (RTP, FedNow)\n\nFinTech experience\n\nKubernetes experience\n\nAWS, Azure (and/or other cloud-based) certification(s) strongly preferred\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.\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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