About the Role
As Paze continues to grow, we're investing heavily in the next generation of our web platform. We're looking for a front-end engineering leader who has built modern applications from the ground up, understands the rapidly evolving front-end ecosystem, and can define a scalable architecture that delivers exceptional user experiences while enabling teams to move quickly. The Principal Front End Engineer is the highest-level front-end individual contributor and serves as the enterprise or product technical leader. This role is responsible for defining and advancing the organization’s front-end engineering vision, setting standards for technical excellence, and shaping major architectural and strategic initiatives across teams.
Responsibilities
- Defines and advances enterprise front-end engineering strategy, architecture, and standards across multiple teams and initiatives.
- Establishes principles and guardrails for quality, accessibility, maintainability, operational readiness, testing, and scalability.
- Owns technical product design and architecture for critical front-end platforms and strategic initiatives.
- Partners with product management, software engineering, UX, and architecture to shape engineering approaches and align with technology roadmaps.
- Building production-grade web SDKs for external partner or merchant integrations for secure browser-based flows
- Identifies and drives adoption of industry best practices, emerging technologies, and modernization opportunities.
- Provides enterprise-level guidance on cloud alignment, CI/CD, automated testing, and sustainable engineering practices.
- Acts as a senior point of expertise on difficult engineering issues and strategic technical decisions.
- Mentors engineers and technical leaders across the organization and serves as a role model for engineering excellence.
- Builds trusted relationships across functions and influences change that improves engineering outcomes, delivery capability, and organizational maturity.
- Represents the organization in high-impact technical discussions with senior stakeholders, customers, or executive leadership as appropriate.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Typically 15 or more years of progressive experience designing and developing complex software or web-based systems.
- Prior experience designing, building, and supporting production-grade web SDKs, including JavaScript/TypeScript API design, browser compatibility, versioning, backward compatibility, developer documentation, integration patterns, performance, security, and observability.
- Deep expertise in front-end architecture, web platform engineering, application design, and enterprise-scale delivery.
- Proven success leading cross-functional teams to create technical solutions and drive strategic initiatives.
- Advanced knowledge of SDLC best practices, software development methodologies, DevOps practices, and automated testing approaches.
- Strong experience with modern web technologies, front-end frameworks, API integration, CI/CD, source control, and cloud-aligned delivery models.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence all levels of the organization.
- Background and drug screen.
- Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Experience leading major modernization efforts involving cloud migration, platform transformation, or large-scale architecture redesign.
- Expertise in design systems, performance engineering, front-end observability, and enterprise web governance.
- Broad exposure to related technologies such as monitoring, orchestration, and cloud infrastructure, consistent with the Principal source profile’s preferred qualifications.
- 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.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Skills
- JavaScript/TypeScript API design
- Front-end architecture
- Web platform engineering
- Application design
- Enterprise-scale delivery
- SDLC best practices
- Software development methodologies
- DevOps practices
- Automated testing approaches
- Modern web technologies
- Front-end frameworks
- API integration
- CI/CD
- Source control
- Cloud-aligned delivery models
- Design systems
- Performance engineering
- Front-end observability
- Enterprise web governance
- Monitoring
- Orchestration
- Cloud infrastructure
Location
- Scottsdale
- San Francisco
- Chicago
- New York
- Phoenix, AZ
- Washington, DC
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Principal
- 15+ years progressive experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field.
Salary/Compensations
- $172,000 - $215,000 (Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL / Washington, DC)
- $206,000 - $258,000 (New York, NY/ San Francisco, CA)
Benefits
- Discretionary incentive plan
- Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
- 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.
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Early Warning Services 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.
