Senior/Lead Software Engineer

The Opportunity

“As a Senior software engineer you will work on the development of an analytic decisioning platform. You will be part of a highly energetic team of software engineers to build FICO’s next generation platform for transaction analytics capabilities. You will lead the development of transactional processing of high-volume, low latency decisioning and backend analytic applications. These capabilities embody patented and unique market value that drives critical business value in a high growth area. This opportunity offers a unique development role to work with cutting edge technology applied to one-of-a-kind business problems.” – Director, Software Engineering

What You’ll Contribute

Integrate with an Agile Team to rapidly develop and deploy features, with emphasis on teamwork, feedback, and information sharing. 
Work with stakeholders to comprehend and provide feedback on the business requirements of the 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 the 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. 
Collaborate with QA engineers to design and implement tests.

What We’re Seeking

Extensive experience creating, documenting, and communicating software designs for complex products. 
In-depth 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 supporting production software deployments. 
Strong hands-on coding experience in C/C++ and Java. Python experience preferred. 
Experience with Linux Operating Systems and Unix scripting.
Hands on experience deploying cloud infrastructure like AWS or similar.
Skilled with domain-driven, event-driven, microservices architecture.
Proficient in building, tracking, and communicating progress within Agile processes. 
Experience with managing containers like Docker & Kubernetes control planes ecosystem is highly desirable. 
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Git, Maven, Jenkins.
Experience with both relational and non-relational databases like Oracle and Couchbase.
Experience with Data transfer and service protocols like JSON, XML, gRPC, REST, TCP.
Experience with caching technologies highly desired. 
Mentoring and coaching developing engineers.

Our Offer to You

An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.
The targeted base pay range for this role is: $123,000 to $193,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.