Manager, Software Development Engineering

$136,190 - $228,790/Yr

Disability Solutions - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Manager

Seattle, WA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

We are the FIS Embedded Finance team, and our mission is to enable developers across all verticals to imagine, create and monetize financial products to profoundly transform the way the entire financial industry consumes services. Today, it's difficult for many businesses to build the financial products they imagine. Whether that's launching a new credit or debit card, a savings account, a lending business, or anything else - there are barriers in the way that require excessive time and effort. We make it trivially easy for businesses to compliantly offer financial products and innovate on their key differentiators rather than spend all their time building and maintaining financial infrastructure. We are looking for a Manager, Software Development Engineering to help us build a brand-new financial technology platform for the future. This is a true builder role, inventing solutions that meet our customer needs in a new space. We are looking for someone who will take a nascent product/service and help launch and scale it. If you're passionate about creating a culture of innovation, this role is for you. Whether it's driving architecture, organizational changes, or deconstructing a complex process to find a straightforward solution - you're a dedicated problem solver. And behind every action you take, is a desire to create positive impact for customers, business, or technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Driving technical decisions through architectural reviews, design reviews, code reviews, post-mortems, and detailed software specifications.
• Managing a team of 3 to 10 software engineers, unblocking maximum productivity for them, and growing their careers to the next level.
• Hiring, mentoring, and establishing a strong bar for performance and engineering excellence.
• Translating complex or ambiguous requirements into technical artifacts that teams can use to build mission critical software.
• Debugging and troubleshooting software issues to ensure business continuity, and a high bar for end-user experience.
• Participating in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, security, scalability, and adherence to coding standards.
• Driving software quality, implementing observability, and complying with best practices for builds and deployment to ensure the quality and reliability of our platform.
• Providing live on-call support by participating in the team on-call rotation and owning production issues from root cause analysis to resolution to future prevention.
• Partnering with cross-functional teams (product, program management, design, security, compliance, etc.) to bring ideas to life.

Requirements

• At a minimum, a Bachelor's in CS or equivalent education, and either 5+ years of relevant professional experience or advanced degree such as a master's or PhD.
• Past experience as a software developer.
• A demonstrable ability to lead and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Solid computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and performance optimization.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Typical qualifications for the role are 1+ years of managing technical employees in a supervisory capacity.
• A history of leading significant technical initiatives and delivering impactful results.
• Experience in building and scaling high-performance engineering teams.
• Experience with live on-call and 24/7 operation of production services.
• Experience leading projects from architectural design to production, while setting and maintaining high standards of technical excellence across your team.
• Expertise in at least one area relevant to our cloud-based financial platform (e.g., fintech, distributed systems, databases, security, or front-end).
• Experience with version control systems (Git), and DevOps practices like continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
• A strong understanding of security best practices for building enterprise applications.

Benefits

• Opportunities to innovate in fintech.
• Tools for personal and professional growth.
• Inclusive and diverse work environment.
• Resources to invest in your community.
• Competitive salary and benefits.