Senior Backend Engineer

The Opportunity “We are seeking a senior software engineer (skilled in back-end/C++) to contribute to the technical development of an analytic decisioning platform. You will be part of a highly energetic team of software engineers to create the next generation software platform for FICO’s feature management capabilities. This role involves contributing on a backend engineering team responsible for feature 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.” – Hiring Manager What You’ll Contribute 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 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. Assist research, case studies and prototypes on technologies to ensure the software platform remains the leading analytic decisioning platform. 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. 8+ years of experience in designing, building, deploying, and operating commercial software that integrates sophisticated AI & ML stateful algorithms executing in low milliseconds. Experience with commercial software that covers the entire life cycle of intelligence execution, from authoring to execution to observing. 8+ years of experience in building sophisticated 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 in domain-driven, event-driven, and microservice architectures. Proficient in building, tracking, and communicating plans within agile processes. Experience 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, including its control plane, ecosystem, and Docker is a plus. CMake experiences are beneficial. Preferred experience using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. 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.