Staff Engineer - Java/AWS, Zelle

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, documents, tests, debugs, and maintains software product applications.
• Acts as a technical leader on the team, collaborating closely with the Architecture team and other members to deliver on the team's backlog.
• Ensures that platform architecture meets growth, monitoring, and alerting goals.
• Leads deep, complex, and high-risk technical projects, managing communication around them.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and makes appropriate trade-off decisions.
• Mentors junior team members on techniques, tools, and best practices.
• Designs and develops features and capabilities to enhance the company's core products.
• Manages source code using Git and queries platform data with SQL-based databases.
• Works on complex Java Web Services using Spring Boot.
• Tracks sprint work in Jira, documents decisions in Confluence, and builds automated tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Submits pull requests and reviews feedback from team members.
• Troubleshoots complex bugs during development.
• Supports the company's risk management and data integrity efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 10 or more years of industry experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Java.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and low-level optimization skills.
• Proficient with Git source control.
• Familiarity with writing automated tests.
• Advanced proficiency with SQL.
• Advanced proficiency in RESTful service design.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and make informed trade-off decisions.
• Critical thinking skills and ability to influence decisions.
• Background and drug screening clearance.

Nice to Have

• Spring / Spring Boot framework experience.
• Strong understanding of event-based programming, multi-threading, memory management, fault tolerance, distributed systems.
• Experience with Cloud/AWS.
• Experience with SOAP services.
• Familiarity with data formats like XML, JSON, YAML.
• NoSQL experience (Redis, HBASE, AeroSpike, etc.).
• Experience with Kafka.
• Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes.
• FinTech industry experience.

Qualifications

• Educational background or experience equivalent to a bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.

Benefits & Perks

• Discretionary incentive plan and benefits.
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage with company contributions to HSA or FSA.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a 100% company match on the first 6% deferral.
• Unlimited paid time off for exempt employees, generous PTO for non-exempt employees, 11 paid holidays, and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Maven Family Planning support for parenting needs.
• Additional health and happiness benefits as detailed on the company's benefits page.