Principal Software Engineer (Java, Event-Driven)

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity 

“As a Principal Engineer, you will lead one of the crucial foundational services powering the FICO Platform. You'll guide and mentor a team of software developers while driving architectural decisions and technical strategy for our cloud-native SaaS platform. In this hands-on leader role, you'll deliver high-impact software solutions while championing engineering excellence. You'll be accountable for your scrum team's success, responsible for critical technical decisions, defining architectural standards, and ensuring best practices across the development lifecycle. You'll balance technical leadership, from sprint planning and code design to mentoring developers with strategic responsibilities including roadmap planning, dependency management, and cross-functional collaboration.” - VP, Software Engineering 

What You'll Contribute 

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support capabilities for a world-class enterprise platform.

• Create scalable, high-performance microservices with exceptional availability, interoperability, and reliability.

• Contribute architectural designs and technical proof-of-concepts while adhering to established standards and architectural guidance.

• Foster software development best practices including pair programming, code formatting standards, secure coding practices, and peer code reviews.

• Champion and implement process improvements across the development lifecycle.

• Provide hands-on technical guidance and mentor team members to enhance their technical capabilities. 

• Take accountability for scrum team success and delivery outcomes. 

• Execute scrum processes while maintaining focus on technical excellence.

• Collaborate with senior engineers and product management to create epics and user stories, defining technical acceptance criteria.

• Work with enterprise architectural models and distributed software design patterns. 

• Serve as a technical expert, mentoring junior engineers and elevating quality standards. 

• Navigate ambiguity and moderate complexity while proactively identifying and resolving issues.

• Share ownership of quality assurance, test automation, continuous integration/delivery, and production operations. 

• Escalate challenges and risks promptly to ensure timely resolution. 

What We're Seeking 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, plus 12+ years of relevant experience.

• Deep expertise in Java; proficiency in Python/Go is advantageous. 

• Strong backend/server-side development experience.

• Proven experience with large-scale platform engineering and distributed systems.

• Demonstrated leadership of technical initiatives with a track record of successful delivery despite complex technical challenges, organizational dynamics, and ambiguity.

• Experience with Spring Framework, Spring Boot Microservices, and Spring Cloud Stream preferred. 

• Proficiency with gRPC services.

• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems (Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ). Preferable experience working with Dapr. 

• Full-stack development experience with JavaScript and Angular is beneficial.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) experience required; Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience preferred.

• AWS certifications (Cloud Practitioner, Developer, Solutions Architect) are advantageous.

• Strong knowledge of relational databases, SQL, and object-relational mapping (Hibernate).

• Demonstrated expertise in unit testing, functional testing, automated regression testing, and test integration.

• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker/Kubernetes). 

• Familiarity with Helm, Amazon EKS/OpenShift, and Terraform for cloud provisioning preferred.

• Proficiency with Git, Maven, Gradle, and CI/CD tools. 

• Strong understanding of Scrum methodology.

• Ability to collaborate effectively within geographically distributed teams. 

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