Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Java/Spring/AWS

Early Warning Services • San Francisco, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is an important role in the development, test, and deployment of complex solutions. The role involves partnering with software engineering, product, and architecture teams to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge, and own the technical strategy for broad or complex requirements. The engineer will be responsible for department-wide design, patterns, and code approaches, reviewing and validating code output from multiple teams, and resolving technical conflicts. They will drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping, and implementation, represent engineering in cross-functional teams, and adapt strategies to influence others. The role includes leading a broad functional area, collaborating with product managers and designers, owning features and systems for long-term health, assisting support and operations teams, and developing and implementing tests for quality, performance, and scalability. Additionally, the engineer will develop and mentor other engineers and may serve as a technical leader for cross-functional projects, actively seeking ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes, while supporting the company’s commitment to risk management and data confidentiality.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Twelve or more years of relevant related experience.
• Nine or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, micro services.
• Eight or more years of work experience with Java/Spring.
• Proficiency in Maven/Gradle.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market.
• Ability to influence and work in a collaborative team environment across multiple departments.
• Experience designing/developing scalable systems.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc).
• Working experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc).
• Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc).
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices.
• Must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.

Nice To Haves

• 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 software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience.
• Own 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.
• Responsible for department-wide design, patterns and code approaches.
• Reviews and validates effectiveness of code output from multiple teams.
• Accountable for resolving technical conflict within and between multiple teams.
• Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy.
• Represent 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
• Lead a broad functional area and direct efforts through the functional team members along with team’s overall planning.
• Collaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize, build new features and create product descriptions.
• Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• Assist support and operations teams in identifying and quickly resolving production issues.
• Develop and implement tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application.
• Develop and mentor other engineers.
• May serve as a technical leader for cross-functional projects.
• Actively seeks out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Supporting 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
• 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.
• Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees
• 11 paid company holidays
• 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: Senior