CareerPlan

Full-Stack Engineer 5 (Java, AWS, Kafka)

Riverwoods, IL, USFull-time$230k2026-10-06 → 2026-11-11
Visa sponsorship offered

Core

Design and scale resilient, low-latency global payment architectures supporting high-volume, cross-border transaction processing and multi-currency financial workflows.

Role type

Senior IC full-stack software engineer (Java, AWS, Kafka)

Builds

Cloud-based solutions for digital product managers to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment

Domain

Financial services / Payments / Cloud-native distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Java, AWS, Kafka, distributed microservices, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), API design, observability, technical leadership

Preferred skills

Scala, Python, Go, TypeScript, open source frameworks, AI-powered coding assistants, mentoring senior engineers, architectural design reviews

Technologies

Java, Scala, Python, Go, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Open Source RDBMS, NoSQL

Responsibilities

Design and scale resilient, low-latency global payment architectures; Leverage AI-powered coding assistants to accelerate software delivery; Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers; Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, shaping system architecture; Drive end-to-end design and implementation of large-scale, distributed, or cloud-native systems

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities