Hybrid Lead Software Engineer

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About the role

  • Lead Engineer developing AI-powered features for FIS’s cloud-based financial platform, collaborating with teams and mentoring junior engineers for architectural excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Translate complex or ambiguous requirements into clean, maintainable, scalable, and well documented code.
  • Design, develop, and maintain software applications and systems that provide value to end-users.
  • Implement AI-powered capabilities in collaboration with product and principal engineers.
  • Implement and optimize algorithms, data usage, and cloud services for latency, availability, and cost.
  • Debug and troubleshoot software issues to ensure business continuity, and a high bar for end-user experience.
  • Raise the engineering bar via rigorous code and design reviews that enforce maintainability, security, performance, and AI safety
  • Write unit & integration tests, implement observability, and comply with best practices for builds and deployment to ensure the quality and reliability of our platform.
  • 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.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, design, security, compliance etc.) to bring ideas to life
  • Mentor junior engineers; contribute to team knowledge sharing and AI upskilling.

Requirements

  • At a minimum, a Bachelor's in CS or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of relevant professional experience or a combination of work experience and advanced education.
  • Proven experience shipping AI-enabled features in production: model-driven decisions, anomaly detection, forecasting/optimization, or LLM-powered experiences—plus MLOps practices
  • Proficiency in at least one modern development framework / language (e.g., Java).
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • 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).
  • Security, privacy, and compliance acumen for financial data (encryption, least-privilege, secrets management, auditability) and AI safety
  • Experience with version control systems (Git), and DevOps practices like continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
  • Leadership and communication. Track record leading projects from architecture to production, influencing cross-functional stakeholders, and mentoring engineers to raise the bar.

Benefits

  • Flexible and creative work environment
  • Diverse and collaborative atmosphere
  • Professional and personal development resources
  • Opportunities to volunteer and support charities
  • Competitive salary and benefits

Job title

Lead Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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