FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!
The Opportunity
“We are seeking a lead 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 with product managers to understand priorities and usage scenarios of product features.
- Collaborate with user experience personnel to understand personas within usage scenarios.
- Participate in designing software platform capabilities in collaboration with architects.
- Work within software engineering teams to follow established software engineering standards, guidance, and processes.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering practices to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and serviceability of the software platform.
- Assist in research, case studies, and prototypes on technologies to ensure the software platform remains at the forefront of analytic decisioning.
- Provide support and guidance to fellow software engineers on domain designs.
- Work with QA engineers to design and implement non-functional tests.
What We’re Seeking
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline.
- 7+ years of IT experience with an emphasis on software engineering.
- Experience 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 lifecycle of intelligence execution, from authoring to execution to observing.
- Proficient with integrating model development tools within AI & ML tools such as Jupyter and SageMaker.
- Experience building runtimes in C++ that integrate various other languages such as Python.
- 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 proficiency across all deployment models on public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.
- Experience creating, documenting, and communicating software designs for complex products.
- Skilled with domain-driven, event-driven, and microservice architectures.
- Proficient with build systems.
- Proficient in building, tracking, and communicating plans within agile processes.
- Experience with supporting production software deployments.
- Proficient with commercial software product processes.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines is a plus, ideally Github Actions.
- Experience with multiple public cloud technologies is a plus, e.g., AWS, Google, Azure.
- Experience with Kubernetes control plane and ecosystem is nice to have.
- 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.
- 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.
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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, optimization, and much more.
FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:
• Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.
• Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.
• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.
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 help 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 fulfil 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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