Western Alliance Bancorporation

Staff Engineer II - Digital Asset

Western Alliance Bancorporation$120K — $145K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in full-stack development, skilled in ReactJS and .NET.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field required.
  • Preferred previous leadership experience.
  • Intermediate to advanced understanding of Financial Services or Banking.
  • Advanced knowledge of regulatory compliance and industry standards.
  • Proven experience managing cross-functional teams and multiple projects.
  • Hands-on expertise with Azure Cosmos DB, focusing on query optimization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical solution design during project planning.
  • Implement reliability practices and recovery procedures in engineering.
  • Design application performance monitoring metrics for business partners.
  • Develop and maintain compliance-focused technical documentation.
  • Implement advanced .NET backend concepts and API optimizations.
  • Manage and design RESTful APIs with security considerations.
  • Develop microservices architecture and event-driven patterns.

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries and ownership stake in the company.
  • Comprehensive medical and dental insurance.
  • Generous time off policy and a robust 401k matching program.
  • Tuition assistance and employee volunteer programs.
  • Wellness program to support work-life balance.
  • Opportunity to learn about successful business operations in-depth.
Full Job Description

Job Title:

Staff Engineer II - Digital Asset

Location:

TX - Dallas/Irving

What you'll do:

As a Staff Engineer II 6 Digital Asset you'll provide expertise in designing, developing, and optimizing high-volume and high-performance applications. AS the Staff Engineer, II, you'll facilitate dialogue and activities to ensure team collaboration including teams outside of your domain. You'll develop effective presentations and narratives for their teams.

This role requires deep knowledge of front-end and back-end technologies, microservices architecture, APIs, and cloud-based database management. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing SQL and NoSQL Azure-managed databases (Azure SQL and Azure Cosmos DB) and will play a key role in ensuring application security, scalability, and reliability.
  • Lead the strategic planning of a project as it relates to technical solution design.
  • Design and implement engineering principles aimed at reliability practices and sound recovery procedures.
  • Design transaction specific application performance monitoring metrics that can be captured and passed to business partners.
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation, including system configurations and procedures while also ensuring compliance with IT policies, procedures, and industry standards. Develop desktop procedures when needed that others follow.
  • Implement advanced .NET backend development concepts, including asynchronous programming, multithreading, dependency injection, and API optimizations.
  • Design and manage RESTful APIs, ensuring rate limiting, authentication, authorization, observability, and efficient data processing.
  • Develop and manage microservices architecture, implementing event-driven patterns, API gateways, service discovery, and containerization.
  • Ensure application performance optimization, including caching strategies, database indexing, and load balancing.
  • Manage and optimize Azure Cosmos DB, ensuring efficient data modeling, partitioning strategies, and query performance tuning.
  • Implement DevSecOps best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated security testing, and infrastructure-as-code deployment.
  • Integrate advanced SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) practices to ensure high-quality code, test-driven development (TDD), and continuous integration.
  • Strengthen application security through OWASP best practices, API security mechanisms, secure coding principles, and identity management.
  • Work in a fast-paced, agile environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and deliver payment solutions.
  • Implement observability tools (such as AppDynamics, ELK, and Grafana) to monitor application performance and troubleshoot issues proactively.

What you'll need:

  • 7+ years of experience in full-stack development, with expertise in ReactJS and .NET.
  • Bachelor's degree in related field required.
  • Previous leadership experience preferred.
  • Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.
  • Advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
  • Advanced proven experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously. Additional experience with pipeline development and leveraging Azure DevOps while working on multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Advanced ability to see the big picture and align projects with organizational goals. Capable of leading and motivating cross-functional teams. Expertise in resolving conflicts and addressing challenges as well as skilled at identifying and mitigating risks at the project level. Proficient in governance patterns tied to intake, technical reviews and architectural compliance.
  • Proven experience in developing high-volume, high-performance applications for payment channels or financial services.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Azure Cosmos DB, including query optimization and partitioning strategies.
  • Expertise in designing and managing APIs and microservices architecture with advanced security and scalability considerations.
  • Deep understanding of application security, DevSecOps, and secure coding practices.
  • Experience with modern SDLC and Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment strategies.
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, with expertise in performance monitoring and tuning.
  • Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.
  • May require up to 25% travel.

Benefits you9ll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want 6 like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you9ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About Western Alliance Bancorporation

Western Alliance Bancorporation is a bank holding company that provides a range of banking and related services to businesses and individuals. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Western Alliance Bancorporation operates through its subsidiary banks, which include Western Alliance Bank, Bank of Nevada, and Bridge Bank. The company offers a variety of products and services, including commercial and industrial loans, real estate loans, treasury management, and wealth management. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to providing exceptional customer service and has received numerous awards and recognitions for its performance and growth.
Learn more about Western Alliance Bancorporation
Size
3,139 employees
Market Cap
$6.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$506.6 million
5 Year Trend
+18.8%
NASDAQ

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