Sr. Distinguished Engineer - Digital Assets

Early Warning® • Chicago, IL

2d • $241,000 - $372,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. 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. 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. Overall Purpose As a Sr. Distinguished Engineer, you will lead the technical design, development, and delivery of Early Warning’s next-generation cross-border consumer money movement platform. This new solution will leverage a range of technologies, including stablecoin, to provide fast, secure, and compliant global transfers. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll be both a visionary architect and an active builder. You will define the technical strategy and architecture for the platform, collaborate across product, risk, and compliance teams, and set the engineering standard for secure and scalable digital asset infrastructure.

Requirements

• Education or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 15 or more years of progressive software engineering experience; recognized as a technical expert with demonstrated experience mentoring and leading large-scale deliverables and processes in a Technology organization
• Minimum 10+ years of leading efforts or processes in a Technology organization, with deep experience architecting or scaling payment systems, digital asset infrastructure, or blockchain-based settlement solutions in regulated environments
• Minimum 5 or more years of software engineering experience dealing with large scale systems in the cloud.
• Minimum 5 or more years of experience implementing application solutions/ services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing and in compliance security guidelines.
• Recognized in the industry as a technical expert in their field through published works, patents and/or industry speaking engagements.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership through large-scale system designs, upgrades, and releases.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and energize people showcasing technical and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated experience with state- of- the- art technology, architecture, and design concepts, open-source operating systems, database systems, computer networking, and security.
• Possesses a deep understanding of executing highly scalable, distributed applications in cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional groups and generate results.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Must convey responsiveness and competence when dealing with internal customers, staff, peers, senior management, and vendors.
• Superior leadership presence with strong business acumen.
• Background and drug screen

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree; additional related education and/or related work experience preferred.
• Industry authored content around applicable area of expertise.
• Experience with large-scale enterprises scaling out operations in Amazon Web Services is highly favorable.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Experience; with migrating application & data services from on-prem to Cloud.
• Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large scale full stack development, building complex distributed systems, designing massive global networks.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture for Early Warning’s cross-border money movement solution, designing for scalability, security, and regulatory compliance
• Design and implement key components, from wallet management and transaction orchestration to liquidity and settlement services
• Collaborates closely with Engineering leaders, Architecture, Security, and external partners
• Lead the technical evaluation and integration of blockchain technologies, stablecoin protocols, and digital asset service providers
• Build and advocate for engineering best practices around smart contract security, transaction traceability, and system observability
• Identifies opportunities to ship value to Production quickly and in incremental chunks to avoid “big bang” delivery; complex environments benefit from incremental delivery.
• Provides new code solutions (likely POCs) and/or makes coding changes to resolve critical issues in existing application code base; this is an individual hands-on skill requirement.
• Builds and delivers well-considered scaling solutions via strong relationships with key stakeholders in the Data, Architecture and Operations organizations.
• Ensures software development follows effective quality guidelines and best practices in line with the rest of the Engineering organization.
• Ensures accurate/reliable information is provided within company standards including all service level agreements, and audit regulations.
• Ensures solutions are built following our Engineering best practices (e.g., Quality, CI/CD, scalability, etc.).
• Keeps executive-level leaders informed of progress and problems.
• Balances technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
• Makes recommendations at a critical level.
• Complies with all security policies and procedures, to ensure that the highest level of system and data confidentiality, integrity and availability is maintained.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Benefits

• Healthcare 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.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Unlimited 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: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees