Software Principal Engineer

What You’ll Contribute

Work with stakeholders to comprehend and provide feedback on business requirements for your software platform capability.
Collaborate with product managers to understand priorities and usage scenarios of product features.
Collaborate with user experience personnel to understand personas within usage scenarios.
Collaborate 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.
Collaborate 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 in Computer Science or related disciplines, or relevant experience in software architecture, design, development and testing.
Experience designing, building, deploying, and operating commercial software that integrates sophisticated AI & ML stateful algorithms leveraging real-time aggregations (such as time windows) executing in low milliseconds.
Experience building sophisticated persistence layers in C++ for low-latency, real-time aggregations.
Experience deploying and operating persistence layers for multi-region, high-available use cases.
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.
Experience with domain-driven, event-driven, and microservice architectures.
Experience in building, tracking, and communicating plans within agile processes.
Experience coaching/mentoring individuals and teams.
Experience with supporting production software deployments.
Experience with commercial software product processes.
Experience with multiple public cloud technologies, e.g., AWS, Google, Azure desired.
Experience with Kubernetes control plane and ecosystem desired.
Experience with numerous caching technologies desired.
Experience with distributed synchronization algorithms desired.
Experience with numerous database technologies that leverage multiple types of indices desired.

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: $147000 to $231000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.