[Hiring] Lead Software Engineer @FICO

Role Description

We are seeking a lead software engineer to contribute to the technical development of an analytic decisioning platform. You will be part of a highly energetic team of software engineers to enhance FICO’s streaming platform. This role involves contributing on a frontend engineering team responsible for processing of high-volume, low latency decisioning and analytics execution. These capabilities embody patented and unique market value that drives critical business value in a high growth area. This opportunity offers a unique leadership role to work with cutting edge technology applied to one-of-a-kind business problems.

What You’ll Contribute

• Collaborate with product managers to understand priorities and usage scenarios of product features.
• Collaborate with architects to drive the design for your software platform capability.
• Collaborate within working groups of software engineers to follow software engineering standards, guidance, and processes.
• Continuously improve engineering practices for the software platform to support efficiency, reliability, and serviceability goals.
• Coach other software engineers on creating their UI designs.
• Collaborate with QA engineers to design and implement functional and non-functional tests.
• Participate in support activities for both cloud and on-premises implementations.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, deploying, and operating commercial software that provides a composable platform.
• Good understanding of software architecture and design principles, with a focus on building scalable and maintainable systems.
• 7+ years of experience in Java and Spring with hands-on experience in modern software design patterns and open-source technologies.
• Experience coaching/mentoring individuals and teams.
• Technical expertise across deployment models on public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and Docker for containerized application management.
• Experience with database technologies such as MySQL, Oracle, or similar enterprise databases.
• Skilled in Agile processes with outstanding communication abilities to articulate complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proficiency in one or more stream processing platforms such as Storm, Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, Kinesis, Dataflow, Pulsar, or Stream Analytics.
• Experienced in domain-driven, event-driven architecture, along with data flow concepts and hands-on implementation.
• Multi-cloud experience (AWS, Google, Azure) and familiarity with technologies like Cassandra, Zookeeper, Kustomize, and/or OpenSearch are preferred.
• Experience in JavaScript, Angular, Python, and generative AI tools is beneficial.

Benefits

• 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: $105,000 to $165,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.