Principal Backend Engineer (C++)

What You’ll Contribute

Work with stakeholders to comprehend and provide feedback on business requirements for your software platform capability.
Work closely with product managers to understand priorities and usage scenarios of product features.
Collaborate with user experience personnel to understand personas within usage scenarios.
Work with architects to drive the architecture for your software platform capability.
Collaborate within working groups of software engineers to create software engineering standards, guidance, and processes.
Continuously improve engineering practices for the software platform to support efficiency, reliability, and serviceability goals.
Assist research, case studies and prototypes on technologies to ensure the software platform remains the leading analytic decisioning platform.
Work closely with technology suppliers to address FICO’s technology needs.
Coach other software engineers on creating their domain designs.
Collaborate with QA engineers to design and implement non-functional tests.

What We’re Seeking

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science or related discipline.
Experience designing, building, deploying, and operating commercial software that provides a composable platform executing in low milliseconds.
Experience operating a critical runtime component that uses observability to diagnose root cause.
Experience building sophisticated, composable runtimes in C++.
Ability to define and drive design transformation to an end state that is based on simplicity, modern software design patterns, open-source software, and cloud environments.
Technical expertise across all deployment models on public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.
Experience creating, documenting, and communicating software designs for complex products.
Skilled with domain-driven, event-driven, and microservice architectures.
Proficient in building, tracking, and communicating plans within agile processes.
Capable of coaching/mentoring individuals and teams.
Experience with supporting production software deployments.
Proficient with commercial software product processes.
Experience with multiple public cloud technologies is a plus, e.g., AWS, Google, Azure.
Experience with Kubernetes control plane and ecosystem is nice to have.
Preferred experience integrating multiple languages into a C++ runtime.