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Our mission is simple: build strong and diverse communities through innovative financial technology-and we do that by empowering our people to help create success for our customers.\nWhat Makes Q2 Special?\nBeing as passionate about our people as we are about our mission. We celebrate our employees in many ways through our year-round Q2 ChangeMakers awards program and global moments of recognition and connection. We invest in the growth and development of our team members through ongoing learning opportunities, internal mobility, and meaningful leadership relationships. We also know that nothing builds trust and collaboration like having fun and giving back together. From company-wide volunteer days to events like our Q2 Homecoming Week-featuring learning, community service, and culture-building experiences-we create opportunities to connect, grow, and make an impact.\nSenior Staff Engineer\nRole Summary\nWe are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead strategic initiatives across customer-facing product engineering teams building next-generation digital banking experiences. This role combines deep technical expertise, architectural leadership, AI-native engineering practices, and operational excellence to deliver scalable, secure, resilient, and intuitive products that drive customer value.\nYou will partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Engineering leaders to define long-term architectural strategy, guide complex technical decisions, accelerate product delivery, and enable teams to build intelligent, customer-focused products at scale.\nKey Responsibilities\nArchitecture, Technical Strategy & Product Engineering\nDefine and drive long-term architecture strategy for customer-facing digital banking products and shared product capabilities.\nTranslate product vision, customer needs, and business goals into scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable engineering solutions.\nLead architecture and design reviews, driving alignment on trade-offs, engineering standards, scalability, extensibility, and long-term technical direction.\nEstablish reusable architectural patterns, APIs, domain boundaries, integration standards, and engineering conventions across teams.\nDrive modernization initiatives that reduce technical complexity, improve maintainability, and accelerate product delivery.\nEnsure architectural decisions balance customer experience, delivery velocity, reliability, compliance, and future scalability.\nInfluence product roadmaps and investment decisions through technical strategy, architectural foresight, and scalability considerations.\nAI-Native Product Engineering & Engineering Excellence\nDrive adoption of AI-native capabilities that improve customer experiences, operational efficiency, personalization, and developer productivity.\nPartner with product and engineering teams to identify opportunities for intelligent automation, conversational experiences, predictive insights, agentic workflows, and AI-assisted engineering practices.\nImprove engineering productivity through automation, CI/CD, tooling, reusable frameworks, and AI-assisted development workflows.\nEstablish standards for testing, observability, resiliency, security, scalability, accessibility, and operational excellence.\nDefine SLAs/SLOs, reliability standards, and operational readiness practices for business-critical customer journeys.\nLead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement initiatives focused on customer impact and product stability.\nEnsure responsible AI adoption through governance, privacy, explainability, security, and risk management practices.\nGuide adoption of modern AI patterns including LLM integrations, RAG-based architectures, intelligent automation, and enterprise AI governance.\nCollaboration, Leadership & Organizational Impact\nDrive alignment across Product Engineering, Product Management, Design, Security, Compliance, Operations, and Executive Leadership.\nCommunicate architectural trade-offs, customer impact, and technical risks clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.\nFoster a product engineering culture focused on ownership, innovation, simplicity, scalability, and customer trust.\nMentor senior engineers and technical leaders across teams, scaling engineering excellence through coaching, architectural guidance, and reusable patterns.\nEncourage strong engineering collaboration through architecture reviews, technical documentation, shared standards, and engineering communities.\nProduct & Business Impact\nAlign engineering investments with customer outcomes, product strategy, operational metrics, compliance requirements, and company OKRs.\nUse customer insights, experimentation data, analytics, and product health metrics to guide prioritization and technical trade-offs.\nInfluence strategic investment decisions through technical expertise, architecture strategy, scalability planning, and customer value analysis.\nDeliver secure, resilient, intelligent, and customer-focused digital banking experiences that strengthen engagement and trust.\n12+ years of software engineering experience with expertise building scalable cloud-native products and distributed systems.\nProven experience operating as a Staff, Principal, or Senior Staff Engineer within product engineering organizations.\nStrong experience defining architecture strategy for large-scale customer-facing applications and distributed systems.\nDeep expertise in frontend and backend technologies, cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, API design, observability, resiliency, security, CI/CD, and operational excellence, with experience building AI-native applications leveraging LLMs, agentic workflows, intelligent automation, RAG-based architectures, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.\nExperience building and scaling customer-facing products in fintech, SaaS, or enterprise environments.\nExceptional technical leadership, communication, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration skills.\nStrong product mindset with ability to connect architecture and engineering strategy to customer and business outcomes.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in fintech, digital banking, payments, lending, fraud, or regulated enterprise environments.\nExperience leading large-scale modernization or architectural transformation initiatives.\nExpertise in AI-assisted product experiences, intelligent automation, personalization systems, or enterprise AI governance.\nExperience driving resiliency engineering, operational transformation, and engineering standardization initiatives.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nScalable, resilient, and maintainable architectures adopted across product engineering teams.\nFaster product delivery through reusable engineering patterns, AI adoption, and architectural simplification.\nImproved developer productivity, engineering quality, and operational excellence.\nStrong cross-functional alignment between Engineering, Product, Design, Security, and Operations.\nSuccessful adoption of AI-native product engineering practices.\nStrong mentorship, technical influence, and organizational impact.\nDelivery of secure, intelligent, and customer-centric digital banking experiences.\nThis position requires fluent written and oral communication in English.\nHealth & Wellness\nHybrid Work Opportunities\n\nFlexible Time Off\n\nCareer Development & Mentoring Programs\n\nHealth & Wellness Benefits, including competitive health insurance offerings and generous paid parental leave for eligible new parents\n\nCommunity Volunteering & Company Philanthropy Programs\n\nEmployee Peer Recognition Programs - “You Earned it”\n\nClick here to find out more about the benefits we offer.\nOur Culture & Commitment:\nWe’re proud to foster a supportive, inclusive environment where career growth, collaboration, and wellness are prioritized. And our benefits go beyond healthcare-offering resources for physical, mental, and professional well-being. Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer. Q2 employees are encouraged to give back through volunteer work and nonprofit support through our Spark Program (see more). We believe in making an impact-in the industry and in the community.\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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