Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

As the world accelerates, FIS is at the forefront of fintech innovation. Our solutions impact nearly every market, business, and individual globally. Our inclusive and diverse teams work cohesively, celebrating milestones together. If you’re passionate about advancing the world of fintech, we’d like to ask you: Are you ready to join FIS?

About the Team

Our FIS Automated Finance team develops cutting-edge software for intelligent cash management, Accounts Payable (AP), and Accounts Receivables (AR) for some of the world's largest companies. Recognized as leaders in Order-to-Cash through Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), we’re innovating continuously. We’re enhancing features for our clients, reducing time-to-value, and expanding AP & AR services across the broader FinTech platform to support developers across all verticals. .

About the Role

We’re seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to develop a state-of-the-art financial technology platform. We value individuals who act like owners, are eager to learn, resilient, and uphold integrity and empathy. Even if your background doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, your skills and enthusiasm will make you stand out. We embrace diverse perspectives and ideas that challenge conventional thinking.

Note: The role has a hybrid work environment in our Seattle/Bellevue office unless business needs dictate otherwise.

What You Will Be Doing

• Translate user and business requirements into clean, maintainable, scalable, and well-documented code.
• Define the technical strategy, scope, and execution plan for major initiatives with long-term impact.
• Address ambiguous technical challenges, guiding them to successful solutions.
• Champion innovation by identifying new technologies and solutions to advance our platform.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, fostering knowledge sharing and professional growth.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create scalable, secure technical architectures.
• Influence design and planning decisions across multiple teams with competing priorities.
• Manage broad technical areas, requiring deep expertise and complex relationship navigation.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure quality, maintainability, security, scalability, and adherence to coding standards.
• Provide live on-call support, addressing production issues from root cause analysis to resolution and future prevention.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent education and at least 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 solutions.
• Experience leading projects from architectural design to production, maintaining high technical standards across teams.
• Expertise in at least one area relevant to cloud-based financial platforms (e.g., fintech, distributed systems, databases, security, or front-end).

Added Bonus If You Have

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience or a combination of work experience and advanced education.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• A history of successfully 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).
• A strong understanding of security best practices for building enterprise applications.

What We Offer You

• Opportunities to innovate in fintech.
• Tools for personal and professional growth.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment.
• Resources to invest in your community.
• Competitive salary and benefits.

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