The Opportunity
"Seeking a senior principal software engineer to lead the technical development for our analytic decisioning platform. If you are looking to join a highly energetic team of software engineers to create the next generation software platform for all FICO software products, we encourage you to apply." - VP, Software Engineering
What You'll Contribute
Work with stakeholders to comprehend and provide feedback on business requirements for your software platform capability.
Collaborate with product managers to understand priorities and usage scenarios of product features.
Collaborate with user experience personnel to understand personas within usage scenarios.
Collaborate with architects to drive the architecture for your software platform capability.
Collaborate with and lead working groups of software engineers to create software engineering standards, guidance, and processes.
Continuously improve engineering practices for the software platform to support efficiency, reliability, and serviceability goals.
Assist and potentially lead research, case studies and prototypes on technologies to ensure the software platform remains the leading analytic decisioning platform.
Participate in prospect/customer meetings on technology topics.
Collaborate with technology suppliers to address FICO’s technology needs.
Coach other software engineers on creating their domain designs.
What We're Seeking
Experience designing, building, deploying, and operating solutions that integrate sophisticated AI & ML stateful algorithms that execute in low milliseconds.
Experience with solutions that comprehend the entire lifecycle of intelligence execution, from authoring to execution to observing.
Ability to define and drive design transformation to an end state that is based on simplicity, modern software design patterns, open-source software, and cloud environments.
Technical expertise across all deployment models on public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.
Experience creating, documenting, and communicating software designs for complex products.
Experience with domain-driven, event-driven, and micro-service architectures.
Experience in building, tracking, and communicating plans within agile processes.
Experience coaching/mentoring individuals and teams.
Experience with supporting production software deployments.
Experience with commercial software product processes.
Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
Experience with multiple public cloud technologies, e.g., AWS, Google, Azure.
Experience with Kubernetes control plane and eco-system a plus.
Experience with decision, artificial intelligence, and machine learning tools, e.g., Jupyter, Sagemaker a plus.
Experience integrating decision and numerical programming technologies a plus.
Experience integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies a plus.
Our Offer To You
A culture and work environment strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
The opportunity to make a difference by leveraging your unique strengths.
Highly competitive compensation and rewards.
Flexible work options, opportunities to give back to your community, social events with colleagues and a comprehensive benefits program inclusive of progressive parental leave.
The targeted base pay range for this role is: $161,000 to $253,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
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San Jose, CA
FICO at a Glance
FICO’s groundbreaking use of Big Data and mathematical algorithms to predict consumer behavior has transformed entire industries. The company provides analytics software and tools used across multiple industries to manage risk, fight fraud, build more profitable customer relationships, optimize operations and meet strict government regulations. Many of our products reach industry-wide adoption — such as the FICO® Score, the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the United States. FICO solutions leverage open-source standards and cloud computing to maximize flexibility, speed deployment and reduce costs. The company also helps millions of people manage their personal credit health.
Founded in 1956, FICO introduced analytic solutions such as credit scoring that have made credit more widely available, not just in the United States but around the world. We have pioneered the development and application of critical technologies behind decision management. These include predictive analytics, business rules management and optimization. We use these technologies to help businesses improve the precision, consistency and agility of their complex, high–volume decisions.
A Global Presence
FICO has offices throughout the world serving industries including financial services, health care, insurance, automotive, public sector, retail, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, travel and hospitality, media and entertainment, high tech and utilities.
Fortune 500 Clients
FICO clients include more than half of the top 100 banks in the world, more than 600 personal and commercial line insurers in North America and Europe including the top 10 US personal lines insurers, 400+ retailers and general merchandisers, including one-third of the top 100 U.S. retailers, 95 of the 100 largest financial institutions in the U.S., and all the 100 largest U.S. credit card issuers and more.