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
“Come join our product development team in a hands-on technical role where you’ll be involved in the end-to-end lifecycle of software development and methodologies. This role provides the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of our business, and work closely with professional services and product management to develop a highly feature rich product.” – VP, Software Engineering.
What You’ll Contribute
- Design, develop, deploy, and support modules of large, world-class, enterprise-level products.
- Take full ownership of one or more services/domains, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Participate in architectural design of the product, providing technical solutions and guidance for complex business problems while ensuring alignment with the overall system architecture.
- Drive technical design reviews, code reviews, and ensure engineering best practices across the team.
- Evaluate new design specifications, raise quality standards, and address architectural concerns proactively.
- Develop high-level development timelines based on project scope and deep understanding of the existing application codebase.
- Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and accountability.
- Champion DevOps and CI/CD best practices, ensuring rapid, reliable, and repeatable deployments.
- Maintain and upgrade product source codes, proactively identifying technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and system risks — and driving resolution.
- Articulate design decisions and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
What We’re Seeking
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in software development, building scalable, robust, and high-performance distributed systems.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related disciplines — or equivalent relevant experience in software architecture, design, development, and testing.
- Strong expertise in Java (Java 11/17+) with deep hands-on experience in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and the broader Spring ecosystem.
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating microservices-based architectures at scale.
- Extensive experience building and consuming REST APIs and gRPC APIs with a strong understanding of API design principles, versioning, security, and contract-first development.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services including EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS/RDBMS, and cloud-native design patterns for resilience, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Strong proficiency with Docker containerization and Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration.
- Experience with Helm Charts for Kubernetes package management.
- Proficiency in GitOps-based deployment workflows and GitOps CI/CD pipelines (e.g., ArgoCD).
- Strong knowledge of database concepts, programming, and optimization with experience in RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar) including schema design, query tuning, and data modeling.
- Strong foundation in software design principles including design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and database structures.
- Experience in writing product specifications and technical documentation to present features, designs, and solutions to a wider audience.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate design decisions with architects and discuss strategy/requirements with cross-functional teams.
- Business domain knowledge — ability to understand the business context and translate it into effective technical solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor engineering teams, providing technical guidance, conducting code reviews, and driving best practices.
- Ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders including Architect teams, Engineering Leaders, and cross-functional partners to drive alignment and delivery.
- Quick learner with a growth mindset and willingness to take full ownership of services, systems, and end-to-end deliverables.
- Ability to drive scrum processes and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery within agile teams.
- Ability to provide product demonstrations to stakeholders, customers, or leadership teams is an advantage.
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.
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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