Staff Software Engineer – Digital Assets

EEOC

Staff Software Engineer providing technical leadership in developing cross-border payment platforms at Early Warning. Collaborating across teams to influence solutions for regulatory and operational requirements.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeSan Francisco • Arizona, California, Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $124,000 - $165,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGradleJavaKafkaMavenRabbitMQReactSDLCSpring

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead design and implementation of core services supporting cross-border payments, including transaction orchestration, reconciliation, and settlement components.
Partner with Product, Architecture, and Security teams to ensure solutions meet regulatory, fraud, and operational requirements.
Influence technical direction and standards for scalable, event-driven payment systems operating across regions and partners.
Build 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.
Participate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs.
Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy.
Provide leadership and technical expertise in support of building a technical plan and backlog of stories, and then follow through on execution of design and build process through to production delivery.
Collaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize and 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
Eight or more years of relevant related experience
Seven 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)
Six or more years of work experience with Java/Spring.
Proficiency in Maven/Gradle.
Strong understanding of blockchain architectures, cross-border payments, and distributed ledger technologies, including smart contracts, tokenized systems, and modern approaches to transaction settlement.
Demonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market.
Ability to influence and work in a collaborative team environment.
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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaSpringDockerAngularReactMavenGradleevent-driven architectureblockchain architecturesdistributed systems

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationinfluenceproblem-solvingcommunication