Sr. Distinguished Engineer - Digital Assets Security

At Early Warning, we've powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle, Paze, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose

As a Sr. Distinguished Engineer you will lead the technical design, development, and delivery of Early Warning's next-generation cross-border consumer money movement platform. This new solution will leverage a range of technologies, including stablecoins, to provide fast, secure, and compliant global transfers.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, you'll be both a visionary architect and an active builder. You will define the technical strategy and architecture for the platform, collaborate across product, risk, and compliance teams, and set the engineering standard for secure and scalable digital asset infrastructure.

Essential Functions

• Own the security architecture for Early Warning's cross-border money movement solution, designing for scalability, security, and regulatory compliance

• Design and implement key components, from wallet management and transaction orchestration to liquidity and settlement services

• Lead the technical evaluation and integration of blockchain technologies, stablecoin protocols, and digital asset service providers

• Influence the evolution of stablecoin and blockchain protocols by contributing technical thought leadership internally and externally

• Represent Early Warning in industry collaborations, standards groups, and regulatory/technical working groups related to blockchain, digital identity, and stablecoin settlement frameworks

• Continuously evaluate emerging protocols, digital asset custody models, and zero-knowledge technology for applicability to Early Warning's roadmap

• Collaborates closely with Engineering leaders, Architecture, Security, and external partners

• Build and advocate for engineering best practices around smart contract security, transaction traceability, and system observability

• Mentor and guide engineering teams, elevating technical standards and fostering a high-performance culture

• Identify opportunities to ship value to production quickly and in incremental chunks

• Builds and deliver well considered scaling solutions via strong relationships with key cross-functional stakeholders across the organization

• Partner with Product, Risk, Architecture, and Security teams to ensure end-to-end compliance (AML, KYC, OFAC, etc.) and operational integrity

• Defines technical patterns, governance, and operating models

• Serve as the final escalation point for complex technical decisions

• Prototype new settlement paths, wallet models, and interoperability mechanisms

• Rapidly test and validate hypotheses with proof of concepts and performance benchmarks

• Performs other related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience

• Minimum 15+ years of software engineering experience

• Minimum 10+ years of leading efforts or processes in a Technology organization, with deep experience architecting or scaling payment systems, digital asse

• Minimum 5+ years of experience dealing with large scale systems

• Minimum 5+ years of experience implementing application solutions/services in the Cloud using containerization, CI/CD, automated testing, and compliant security guidelines

• t infrastructure, or blockchain-based settlement solutions in regulated environments

• Expertise with blockchain consensus mechanisms, settlement models, cryptographic primitives, and tokenization

• Demonstrated experience with payment networks, FX, liquidity, and reconciliation systems

• Experience with smart contract design, auditing, threat models, and security best practices

• Experience building systems that meet ISO 20022, NACHA, MAS/TRM, PCI-DSS, or similar regulated frameworks

• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership through large scale system designs, upgrades, and releases

• Ability to resolve highly complex architectural debates and align diverse technical opinions

• Superior leadership and management skills combined with strong business acumen

• Proven ability to mentor and energize teams, showcasing technical and leadership skills

• Experience with state of the art technology, architecture, design concepts, open-source operating systems, database systems, computer networking, and security

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional groups and generate results

• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills; conveys competence with internal customers, staff, peers, senior management, and vendors

• Work experience demonstrating a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

• Background and drug screen required

Physical Requirements

Early Warning works together in a highly collaborative office environment. As such, working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office

equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.

The base pay scale for this position in:
Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $248,000 - $330,000.
New York, NY/ San Francisco, CA in USD per year is: $272,000 - $363,000.
Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.

This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate's education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers). The business actively supports and reviews wage equity to ensure that pay decisions are not based on gender, race, national origin, or any other protected classes.

Some of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness

• 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 -Unlimited 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.

AndSOmuch more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure tocheck our Benefits page here for the latest. Ourteamcan share more during the interview process!

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Early Warning Services, LLC ("Early Warning") considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.