Senior/Lead Software Engineer - Analytic Decisioning Platform - C/C++

San Diego, CA, United States

FICO (NYSE: FICO)  is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 90+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

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.

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Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics.  You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive and prescriptive modeling, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

Credit Scoring — 150+ billion FICO Scores have been sold to date, making it the most used credit score in the world.

Fraud Detection and Security — 2.6+ billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Anti-Money Laundering — our solutions check more than half a billion transactions a day to prevent criminal schemes such as terrorist financing

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We support many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success.

Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career.  Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfill your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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