Staff Software Development Engineer Platform

$189,100 - $317,690/Yr

FIS - Bellevue, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Bellevue, WA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Staff Software Development Engineer will play a crucial role in building a new financial technology platform at FIS. This position requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership, and innovation to transform the way financial products are developed and offered. The ideal candidate will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to create scalable and secure solutions, while also providing guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Translate user and business needs into clean, maintainable, scalable, and well documented code.
• Define the technical strategy, scope, and execution plan for major workstreams or highly technical problems with long-term impact.
• Unravel ambiguous technical challenges, making them tractable and leading them through to successful solutions.
• Champion innovation and identify new technologies and solutions to move our 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, even those 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 by participating in the team on-call rotation and owning production issues from root cause analysis to resolution to future prevention.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent education.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Proficiency in at least one modern development framework/language (e.g., Java, Python, Go).
• Ability to analyze complex problems, identify root causes, and architect effective solutions.
• 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).

Nice-to-haves

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience or a combination of work experience and advanced education.
• Demonstrable ability to lead and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• 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.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with version control systems (Git), and DevOps practices like continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
• 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.