Senior Staff Engineer – Digital Assets

EEOC

Leading the technical strategy for complex cross-border and digital asset payment capabilities. Mentoring engineers and driving architectural design across multiple teams in a collaborative environment.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeSan Francisco • Arizona, California, Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $175,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGradleJavaKafkaMavenRabbitMQReactSDLCSpring

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own architectural design and technical patterns for cross-border money movement and digital asset settlement systems.
Resolve complex technical and scalability challenges across distributed, regulated payment platforms.
Mentor engineers and guide teams in building secure, resilient, and compliant global payment solutions.
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.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Education and/or experience typically obtained through a 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.
Hands-on Docker experience.
Two or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions.
Hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React).
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.
Background and drug screen.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 – 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.
And SO much more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

architectural designdistributed systemsSaaScloud solutionsmicroservicesDockerJavaSpringMavenGradle

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationinfluencingproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershipconflict resolutionplanningteamworkpresentation