Principal Software Engineer - Ecommerce - Java/AWS

Early Warning® • San Francisco, CA

1d • $207,000 - $276,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is a hands-on, individual contributor technical leader involved in setting the standards ensuring excellence in quality of outputs across multiple teams. Responsible for partnering with cross-functional teams and providing input to a broad range of initiatives. A technical expert that is continuously learning and keeping abreast of new technologies and industry best practices and finding ways to bring those practices into the engineering organization.
Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.
Candidates 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Fifteen or more years of experience in designing and developing complex software projects with at least eight or more years in FinTech domain.
• 1-2 years of experience implementing application solutions/ services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing and in compliance security guidelines
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams to create technical solutions.
• Effective communicator with exceptional public speaking skills. Comfortable presenting to all levels within the company.
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices
• Proven track record designing and building complex end-to-end systems (full stack developer)
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing using the one or more of the following technologies: Java RESTful Web Services (Java, J2EE, JUnit, and Tomcat.)
• Experience in Microservices Architecture.
• Open Source Frameworks - Spring boot, Spring Core
• Messaging frameworks such as Kafka, Tibco EMS or JMS
• Oracle PL/SQL
• JavaScript and scripting frameworks (JQuery, AngularJS)
• Hands-on experience in test automation at various levels of testing (unit, component, integration and functional tests).
• Proven experience in OOA/OOD.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation including GIT, Chef,Maven, Jenkins etc
• Solid understanding of modern Cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or MS Azure.
• Experience of working with code repositories (e.g. Git, SVN), bug tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla) and Wikis (e.g. Confluence)
• Background and drug screen.

Nice To Haves

• System design experience with Commerce, APIs, payment operations and/or check out functions
• Advanced Java and Spring/Spring Boot development
• AWS-based application architecture
• Hands-on system design and coding
• Technical leadership for a delivery team
• Code and design reviews
• Mentoring engineers
• Leading technical planning, decomposition, and execution
• Coordinating team-level engineering activities without formal people-management responsibility
• Knowledge of real time payment networks (RTP, FedNow)
• FinTech experience
• Kubernetes experience

Responsibilities

• Partners with product management to craft product strategy, create product descriptions and ensure alignment to technology roadmaps.
• Be a thought leader: a senior point of expertise on software engineering issues, industry trends and developing technologies. Be a role model to others on the team. Coach and mentor team members.
• Takes ownership for creating technical product design and architecture.
• Creates and conducts presentations for small-to-medium size groups.
• Works closely with customers to understand their needs and create a partnership for making Early Warning products better.
• Partners with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience.
• Develop, scope and shape a departmental-wide technical vision for the future.
• Design / Engineer product / application service solutions in alignment with technology strategy roadmap (example, cloud, containerization, CI/CD and automated testing) keeping futuristic business growth, ease of maintenance, operational readiness and self-service enabled.
• Collaborate and build relationships cross-functionally to influence and motivate others; serve as an internal catalyst for progressive, strategic and successful change management.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Benefits

• 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.
• 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• 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.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal