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
This position has an important role in the development, test, and deployment of Mobile Solutions for Paze.
Essential Functions
Define and champion the overall mobile technical strategy across iOS and Android, including frameworks, tooling, and best practices. Act as a domain expert, influencing system design across mobile and backend teams to ensure scalable and efficient solutions.
Architect and implement secure mobile payment solutions using NFC and EMV Co Standards.
Drive the long-term mobile platform vision for both iOS and Android. Establish and evolve the core mobile architecture, design patterns, and engineering standards for both platforms. Ensure consistency, performance, and maintainability by setting precedents for dependency injection, module management, and reactive programming across Android (Kotlin) and iOS (Swift).
Lead high-level architectural and code reviews for key features and platform components across multiple mobile teams. Define and enforce a high bar for engineering quality, performance, and reliability through mentorship and process improvements.
Use a deep understanding of mobile systems and strategic goals to resolve architectural disagreements and align teams in a single, coherent direction. Act as a neutral technical voice to facilitate decisions on shared libraries, build systems, or cross-platform code.
Lead the research and prototyping of complex mobile solutions, such as new SDK integrations, or performance optimizations, validating their technical feasibility and alignment with the overall product roadmap.
Act as the mobile expert in product and design discussions, providing a technical perspective on tradeoffs and risks. Influence product teams to prioritize platform health, accessibility (for both iOS and Android), and technical debt reduction alongside new feature work.
Guide the technical planning and execution for major mobile-specific initiatives, such as a full app redesign, a modularization effort, or a large-scale performance overhaul. Directly influence the roadmaps of multiple mobile teams to ensure they are building toward a cohesive architectural vision.
Establish department-wide mobile testing strategies, including unit, integration, and UI automation tests (like XCUITest for iOS or Espresso for Android). BrowserStack and Appium experience. Drive adoption of advanced performance monitoring tools and testing practices within the CI/CD pipeline.
Formally mentor other senior and staff-level engineers on mobile architecture, and design. Lead critical, cross-functional mobile projects from a technical perspective, mobilizing engineers from different teams to achieve a common goal.
Stay up to date on the latest Android and iOS tooling and SDKs to proactively identify opportunities for process and efficiency improvements. Champion and lead the development of internal libraries and tooling that improves developer productivity across all mobile teams.
Architect and enforce best-in-class mobile security practices, such as code obfuscation, certificate pinning, and secure API integration. Collaborate with security and legal teams to ensure the mobile platform adheres to all data privacy and confidentiality standards (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
Supporting the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Minimum Qualifications
Education and/or experience typically obtained through a master’s/bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field.
Twelve or more years of relevant related experience.
Nine or more years of overall professional software engineering experience, with at least five to seven years of native mobile application development (Android and/or iOS). Expertise on both native platforms is critical for a senior staff role that influences across an entire mobile organization.
Experience with mobile payments and understanding of EMV Co standards as necessary.
Deep proficiency in modern mobile development ecosystems:
iOS: Mastery of Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, and Combine.
Android: Mastery of Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and the Android SDK.
Demonstrated experience in shipping and maintaining large-scale, business-critical mobile applications available on the App Store or Google Play.
Expert knowledge of mobile application architecture and design patterns (e.g., MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture). A senior staff engineer must set architectural standards for multiple teams.
Experience in designing and developing reusable mobile platform components, frameworks, and SDKs that can be leveraged across multiple product teams to enhance scalability, consistency, and maintainability.
Experience in the development of scalable, distributed systems is essential, but with a mobile-centric perspective. This includes designing robust APIs and understanding the complexities of mobile-to-backend communication, including offline-first and event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub, Kafka).
Strong working experience with mobile infrastructure and developer tooling, including modern CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Fastlane, Bitrise, GitHub Actions), automated testing, and build/release systems.
Working knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure, particularly as it pertains to mobile services like push notifications, authentication, and backend-as-a-service.
Experience with mobile security principles, secure coding, and vulnerability mitigation. A senior staff engineer is accountable for protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and user data.
Exceptional ability to influence and lead technical direction within and between multiple engineering teams. This includes mentoring senior and staff-level engineers and resolving cross-organizational technical conflicts.
Active ownership of the long-term health of mobile platforms, including performance, security, and scalability. A senior staff engineer drives improvements beyond their immediate scope.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to build consensus and persuade both technical and non-technical stakeholders on architectural decisions.
Expert knowledge of fundamental software engineering principles: data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and secure coding practices.
Expertise in evaluating and implementing new mobile technologies, libraries, and frameworks to keep the platform modern and competitive.
Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc) and DevOps practices.
Background and drug screen.
Preferred Qualifications
MS or PHD
JavaScript and scripting frameworks experience (JQuery, AngularJS)
Monitoring and Alerting systems experience (AppDynamics)
Computer language experience (C/C++, Python)
Knowledge of
FinTech experience
Kubernetes experience
The base pay scale for this position in:
Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $158,000 - $210,000.
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 – 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.
And SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!
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.
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