Senior Staff Software Development Engineer [Platform]

$222,830 - $374,350/Yr

FIS

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Staff Software Development Engineer will play a pivotal role in building a new financial technology platform at FIS. This position requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership, and innovation to guide the development of scalable and secure financial products. The ideal candidate will act as a domain expert, providing technical leadership, fostering collaboration, and driving significant technical initiatives from inception to production.

Responsibilities

• Act as the de facto authority for a major system or significant component, providing expert guidance and judgment.
• Unravel ambiguous technical challenges and lead them through to successful solutions.
• Champion innovation and identify new technologies and solutions to move the platform forward.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to team members, fostering knowledge sharing and growth.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate business needs into elegant, scalable, and secure technical architectures.
• Influence design and planning decisions across multiple teams with competing priorities.
• Manage broad technical areas, requiring deep expertise and the ability to navigate complex relationships.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, security, scalability, and adherence to coding standards.
• Provide live on-call support and drive projects to reduce operational burden and technical debt.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent education.
• 7+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Proficiency in at least one modern development framework/language (e.g., Java, Python, Go).
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience leading projects from architectural design to production.
• Experience in building and operating tier-1 production critical systems.

Nice-to-haves

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience or a combination of work experience and advanced education.
• Experience developing and nurturing strong relationships across organizational boundaries.
• Deep expertise in areas relevant to cloud-based financial platforms (e.g., fintech, AI/ML, distributed systems, databases, security, or front-end).
• Demonstrable ability to lead and mentor engineers.
• History of driving significant technical initiatives from inception to production operations at scale.
• Experience in building and scaling high-performance engineering teams.

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.