Senior Manager, Software Development - Paze

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

At Paze, we’re building a next-generation digital wallet from the ground up — not iterating on legacy systems, but rethinking how payments should work across banks, merchants, and consumers. This is a rare opportunity to operate in a startup-like environment backed by major financial institutions, where decisions you make directly shape the product, the platform, and how we scale.

We’re tackling hard problems across consumer experiences, fraud, and merchant integrations — building an ecosystem that is truly seamless and highly secure. We’re competing with some of the most established players in the digital payments space — which means the bar is high and the opportunity to innovate is real.

If you’re excited about building foundational systems, moving fast, and having outsized impact on a product that’s still being defined, this is the kind of role where you can truly make a mark.

Essential Functions:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of product engineering components through production.
• Oversee team operations, including cost management, delivery methods, and staffing.
• Manage and mentor two or more engineering teams, including team leads and/or supervisors.
• Provide technical leadership by guiding architecture, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Drive the identification, enhancement, and automation of applications and systems.
• Define and drive AI strategy by exploring emerging tools and embedding AI across product delivery, planning, and execution.
• Ensure adherence to testing standards, policies, and quality assurance practices.
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development to meet department goals and SLAs.
• Play an active role in shaping the vision, structure, and leadership of the engineering organization.
• Advance and mature Agile software development practices using industry best standards.
• Communicate team progress, risks, and solutions effectively to senior management.
• Support and participate in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning initiatives.
• Act as a key liaison between Engineering and cross-functional partners across the organization.
• Champion DevOps principles and foster collaboration across teams.
• Ensure strong commitment to data security, integrity, confidentiality, and risk management.
• Contribute to the development, refinement, and execution of operational policies, with potential organization-wide impact.
• Establish and ensure adherence to budgets, timelines, work plans, and performance expectations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Three or more years of experience managing the development in the following:

• Full Stack development/ development management (Technologies: Java, Spring, AWS Cloud)

• system automation, scripting, Chef, Puppet or similar

• Cloud technologies, VMWare, AWS, or similar

• Automated testing, continuous integration and delivery

• Demonstrated experience with state of the art technology, architecture and design concepts, operating systems, database systems, computer networking, and security.

• Experience with open source frameworks and tools.

• Proven experience in Agile and DevOps software development philosophy, methodologies, practices, and procedures.

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

• Must be able to excel in a fast paced environment with multiple priorities.

• Work experience that demonstrates a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

• Ability to envision project goals, product architectural solutions, and focus on details and tasks to ensure successful implementation.

• Ability to work independently and handle multiple deadline-driven projects simultaneously.

• Proven prior leadership experience.

• Proven leadership skills in leading DevOps teams and their interaction across an organization.

• Background and drug screen.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

Physical Requirements

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.
 

The base pay scale for this position in:
Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL in USD per year is: $150,000 - $200,000.
San Francisco, CA in USD per year is: $180,000 - $240,000.
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!

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.