Software Engineering - Sr Engineer

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 90+ 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.

Fair Isaac Corporation seeks a full-time Software Engineering - Senior Engineer at our offices in San Jose, CA. The primary duty is to provide technical advice, coaching, and direction on technical issues at infrastructure and application levels to software engineers. Other duties include:

1. Evaluate new design specifications and raise quality standards, address architectural concerns. Contribute and enhance Customer Lifecycle Management products' codebase with new features and functionality.
2. Collaborate with FICO architecture team in reviewing technical guidelines and ensure the approved technologies are utilized in software development.
3. Drive cloud-based technical architecture and design process that impact multiple software solutions at Business Unit level.
4. Collaborate with Product Managers, Project Managers, Professional Services, and Product Support teams to understand short-term and long-term issues and resolve them in a timely manner leveraging Jira/Service Now.
5. Integrate as a productive member of Scrum team(s), participating in poker planning, development, Release Planning, and acceptance meetings.
6. Evaluate stability, compatibility, scalability, interoperability, and performance of the software products.
7. Create and enhance automated testing to support our Continuous Integration processes and Continuous deployment process.
8. Conduct interviews to attract talent, set goals for the team, measure and reward team members' performance.
9. Identify and implement cloud infrastructure cost optimization measures across all cloud services.
10. Architect and design software solutions around large datasets and provide data modeling and reporting capabilities.

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or Computer Information Systems, or related field and seven (7) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience. Experience must include five (5) years of experience, which may be concurrent, in all of the following:

1. Software engineering applying a strong foundation of architecture designs and technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms.
2. Applying expertise in containerization and orchestration technology using Docker & Kubernetes.
3. Critical AWS services, including: EC2, ECS, RDS, CloudFormation, ELB, IAM, KMS, S3, EBS, EFS, EMR, DynamoDB, Redshift, and development tools like AWS CLI, and AWS Java and Python SDK.
4. Software development using each of the following: Programming Languages: Java/J2EE, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Python, Shell script; UI Technologies: ExtJS & JQuery; Version Control: Git, SVN; Database: MySql, Oracle, MongoDB; CI/CD: Maven, Ant, Jenkins; Application servers: Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere.
5. Application development using the following frameworks: Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and TestNG.
6. Working as an Agile Scrum Master during development release cycles and expertise in Agile development methodologies using Jira to create projects, Requirement Epics, User Stories, and defects. Conducting regular scrum stand-ups and releasing products on time.
7. Scalable cloud application and microservices architecture and design principles.
8. Design and implementation of large data processing and visualization with reports generation using Tableau.

All experience may have been gained concurrently. Experience must have been acquired after completion of the Bachelor’s Degree program. Please apply online at Must reference job code #28617 for consideration. Unrestricted right to work in US required. The targeted base pay range for this role is: $192,941 to $248,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills, and experience.

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, predictive and prescriptive modeling, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

• Credit Scoring — 150+ billion FICO Scores have been sold to date, making it the most used credit score in the world.
• Fraud Detection and Security — 2.6+ billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.
• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.
• Anti-Money Laundering — our solutions check more than half a billion transactions a day to prevent criminal schemes such as terrorist financing.

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 support 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!

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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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