We’re seeking a future team member for the role Senior Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer to join our applications & payments processing team. This role is located in Pittsburgh, PA.
In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:
- Architect and deliver high-throughput sanctions screening platforms — static screening (Bridger, Actimize, ForCom) and transaction screening (Fircosoft) — with sub-second SLAs at enterprise scale
- Own end-to-end delivery — requirements through architecture, development, testing, CI/CD, deployment, observability, and production support
- Build full-stack applications — Java/Spring Boot backend, Angular/TypeScript frontend, Python for data pipelines and ML integration
- Engineer for resilience and availability — 99.99%+ uptime, active-active failover, circuit breakers, chaos engineering, disaster recovery
- Establish data contracts — schema versioning, contract testing, compatibility guarantees across screening engines and downstream consumers
- Drive data lineage and data mesh — end-to-end traceability for audit and regulatory reporting; domain-oriented data ownership
- Lead AI transformation — integrate AI/ML into screening workflows; build agentic AI systems; drive adoption of Windsurf, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI across the team
- Champion engineering excellence — code reviews, static analysis, test coverage, rapid deployment (trunk-based dev, feature flags, blue-green releases)
To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:
Sanctions Domain
- 8+ years building or integrating sanctions/AML screening platforms
- Deep knowledge of static screening (Bridger, Actimize, ForCom) and transaction screening (Fircosoft)
- Understanding of OFAC, EU, UN, HMT sanctions regimes; screening workflows including alert generation, case management, disposition, and regulatory reporting
Full-Stack Engineering
- 12+ years full-stack development with end-to-end delivery ownership
- Java 17+/ Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, Kafka
- Angular 14 / TypeScript, modern UI patterns
- Python for data pipelines, automation, ML integration
- Strong SQL (Oracle/PostgreSQL), caching (Redis) is a plus
Systems
- Proven experience with high-throughput (hundreds of millions of transactions/day), high availability, and high resiliency systems
- Distributed systems patterns, capacity planning, incident management
Data
- Data contracts — schema registries, contract testing, backward/forward compatibility
- Data lineage — source-to-outcome traceability
- Data mesh — domain ownership, data-as-a-product, federated governance
AI & Agentic Platforms
- Proficient with AI-assisted dev tools (Windsurf, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Copilot) - MUST HAVE
- Experience building or using agentic AI platforms for code generation, testing, or automation
- LLM integration: prompt engineering, RAG, tool-use, guardrails
DevOps & Delivery
- Git/GitLab, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes
- Trunk-based development, feature flags, blue-green/canary deployments
- Observability: Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana
Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience; Master's degree preferred
Preferred
- Engineering leadership experience — managing teams, mentoring, hiring, succession planning
- SWIFT MT/MX and ISO 20022 experience
- Rules engines (Drools, decision-tree frameworks)
- Experience in a globally regulated financial institution (G-SIB)
- Patent filings, publications, or conference speaking
Languages: Java, Python, TypeScript | Frontend: Angular | Messaging: Kafka, IBM MQ | Data: Oracle, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis | Screening: Bridger, Actimize, Fircosoft | CI/CD: GitLab, Docker, K8s | AI: Windsurf, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI | Methodology: Agile, trunk-based dev, full lifecycle ownership
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