Early Warning is looking for a Distinguished Engineer to lead the technical design, development, and delivery of our next-generation cross-border consumer money movement platform. As a hands-on technical leader, you will define the architecture and strategy while actively building key components for this trusted name in payments.
What You'll Do
- Own the architecture for our 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
- Collaborate 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
- Identify opportunities to ship value to Production quickly and in incremental chunks
- Provide new code solutions (likely POCs) and/or make coding changes to resolve critical issues in the existing application code base
- Build and deliver well-considered scaling solutions via strong relationships with key stakeholders
- Ensure software development follows effective quality guidelines and best practices
- Ensure accurate and reliable information is provided within company standards, including all service level agreements and audit regulations
- Ensure solutions are built following our Engineering best practices
- Keep executive-level leaders informed of progress and problems
- Comply with all security policies and procedures
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience
- Minimum 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience; recognized as a technical expert with experience mentoring and leading large-scale deliverables
- Minimum 10+ years of leading efforts 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+ years of software engineering experience dealing with large scale systems in the cloud
- Minimum 5+ 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 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
- Superior leadership presence with strong business acumen
- Successful background and drug screen
Nice to Have
- Master’s Degree; additional related education and/or related work experience
- Industry-authored content around applicable area of expertise
- Experience with large-scale enterprises scaling out operations in Amazon Web Services
- Ability to 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, or designing massive global networks
Technical Stack
- Cloud
- Containerization
- CI/CD
- Automated testing
- Blockchain technologies
- Stablecoin protocols
- Digital asset service providers
Team & Environment
You will collaborate closely with Engineering leaders, Architecture, Security, and external partners.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
- Company contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on first 6% deferral
- Unlimited Time Off for Exempt employees, generous PTO for Non-Exempt employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day
- 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
- Maven Family Planning support (egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, returning to work)
- Compensation: Phoenix, AZ/Chicago, IL: $241,000 - $310,000; New York, NY/San Francisco, CA: $289,000 - $372,000
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York.
Early 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.
