Senior Staff Engineer

Senior Staff Software Engineer (L3) – Digital Banking 

Position Overview 

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer (L3) for Digital Banking, you are a hands-on technical leader who designs and delivers mission-critical payment and cash management capabilities.  You will lead and work with other developers and collaborate with Enterprise Support Account Managers and Product Owners to analyze application issues, perform code changes/enhancements, drive issue remediation and improve overall availability, scalability, and resiliency of the platform.   

The ideal candidate should have 8 to 10 years of experience working with Java and J2EE frameworks, with a strong understanding of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms. Proficiency in observability tools such as Loki/ELK, ElastAlert, Grafana, and Loki is essential for monitoring and optimizing system performance.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead initiatives; own technical strategy for a problem space. 

• Partner with Account Managers, Product, SRE, Security and Compliance to influence roadmap decisions and design, develop, and implement high-quality, scalable solutions using Java/J2EE (including modern frameworks and libraries).  

• Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, documentation, and operational readiness; conduct design and code reviews. 

• Establish robust observability and SRE practices (logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts) leveraging tools such as ELK, Loki, ElastAlert, and Grafana. 

• Model secure-by-design principles and ensure adherence to regulatory and industry standards for banking systems. 

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; provide technical coaching, unblock delivery, and develop expertise across the domain. 

• Lead incident response and post-incident learning; drive reliability improvements via root cause analysis and corrective actions. 

• Contribute reusable patterns, reference implementations, and internal documentation to accelerate delivery. 

• Drive improvement in reliability, performance, developer velocity, and customer experience. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent practical experience. 

• 8–10 years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrable impact at scale, including technical leadership responsibilities. 

• Expertise in Java and J2EE, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns; strong hands-on coding skills. 

• Proficiency with observability stacks (Kibana, LOKI, Grafana) and modern CI/CD pipelines. 

• Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to influence across teams and present technical strategies to non-technical stakeholders.   

• Ability to operate effectively under pressure during incident responses.  

• Track record of mentoring and elevating engineering team members, commitment to continuous improvement. 

• Experience designing and operating services on public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) or hybrid environments. 

Nice to Have 

• Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging (e.g., MQ), and streaming (e.g., Kafka). 

• Hands-on security experience (threat modeling, secure coding, mTLS, OWASP Top 10) and regulated environments. 

• Background in payments, cash management, or core banking integrations.