Senior Engineer – Payments Modernization

Role Overview

• Defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes.
• Delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations.
• Applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies.
• Accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.
• Ensuring that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution.
• Defining the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluating and adapting new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s).
• Enabling team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engaging with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline.
• Guiding and influencing team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance – e.g. pairing, code reviews.
• Providing end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level.
• Conducting research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features.
• Working with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements.
• Designing and implementing cloud-native architectures leveraging AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and API Gateway.
• Ensuring security and compliance in cloud deployments using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), encryption, and monitoring best practices.
• Optimizing cloud infrastructure for scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency using AWS Auto Scaling, Load Balancer, and Cost Explorer.
• Implementing observability and monitoring with AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray, and integrating with existing tools like Splunk or Prometheus.
• Enabling Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform for automated provisioning and environment consistency.
• Integrating CI/CD pipelines with AWS services (e.g., CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy) for seamless deployments.
• Designing disaster recovery and backup strategies using AWS Backup and multi-region architecture.
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements for cloud-based financial application.

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience with strong payment platform experience
• Domain expertise in payment systems including Wire, ACH, RTP.
• Knowledge of ISO 20022 messaging standards.
• Ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations
• Collaborating with clients and internal teams to gather requirements and develop solutions
• Optimizing existing cloud infrastructures for performance and cost-efficiency
• Hands-on experience deploying applications on AWS cloud using native services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and API Gateway.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines with AWS services (e.g., CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy).
• Ability to design secure and compliant cloud architectures leveraging AWS IAM, encryption, and monitoring best practices.
• Proven experience in optimizing cloud infrastructure for scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
• Providing technical leadership and mentoring to team members
• Recent experience tackling complex challenges in distributed data systems using Java (Enterprise Edition), Oracle SQL, and Python.
• Experience using Java/J2EE technologies to develop scalable enterprise-grade applications, libraries, and frameworks.
• Designed and developed solution architecture to scale backend systems with Spring framework, Spring MVC, and RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience with messaging systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ.
• Utilized DevOps technologies for CI/CD including Ansible, Jenkins, JFrog, and Git.
• Designed and implemented database development on Oracle Exadata.
• Proven experience in leading and mentoring a team of engineers.
• Strong understanding of software development, testing, deployment, and support using agile methodologies.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java Enterprise Edition and related frameworks (e.g., Spring, Hibernate) and advanced SQL.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to write specifications and design documents.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Cloud
• DynamoDB
• EC2
• Hibernate
• J2EE
• Java
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Oracle
• Prometheus
• Python
• RabbitMQ
• Ray
• Splunk
• Spring
• SQL
• Terraform

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Discretionary incentive eligible