Who We Are

Join a team that puts its People First! Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eleven consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.

What We Do

First American is seeking a Senior SailPoint Software Engineer. An ideal
candidate has strong technical expertise, a product mindset, and takes a hands-on approach to building high-quality and sustainable software products. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead projects as part of small, focused engineering delivery teams, to build fast, clean, reliable code that drives business value for our customers.

What You’ll Do:
Code: You will be an active contributor to the codebase, designing, developing,
testing, and deploying code supporting our most complex functional areas. You
will architect and implement modern world-class services that are scalable,
highly available, and fault-tolerant.

Shape Technical Strategy: Have a clear vision for SailPoint platform and can
develop a long-term strategy to achieve the goals. Provides technical expertise in software development and makes informed decisions about the technical
architecture and design to deliver for the business. Champion technology and
architecture-related investments, advocating for the priority of this work.

Collaborate/Partner: Partner with product management to envision future
features and help plan product roadmaps. Define solution architectures that align with business needs in collaboration with product management and engineering. Facilitate collaborative design discussions and drive design reviews.

Operational Excellence: Implement solutions that are high-quality, secure, and
observable. Be an active member of the team contributing to reviews of design,
code, artifacts and metrics.

Continuous Improvement: Determined to achieve ambitious goals, providing
regular feedback, and driving continuous improvement. Assist with improving
architectural standards & best practices. Build proof-of-concepts to validate
architectural approaches and assess emerging technologies

What You’ll Bring:
o 8+ years in software engineering, with experience in large- scale
distributed system development including hands-on operational
experience.
o Experience driving engineering best practices for high-functioning
software engineering teams through effective use of tools and
automation.
o Passion and expertise for building large-scale, back-end services and
APIs, using modern architectures (Macro / Mini / Micro Services).
o Demonstrable knowledge of data structures, asynchronous
architectures and distributed algorithms.
o A strong understanding of software engineering principles and
modern infrastructure operations.
o Ability to build robust, high-scale, generic, and reusable solutions.
o Experience mentoring and training an engineering community on
development best practices.
o Familiarity with deployment and observability strategies that
support continuous delivery and high availability in a cloud-native
environment.
o An outcome-oriented approach using metrics and data to understand
development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, test
coverage, etc.) that inform areas for continuous improvement.
o Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong
relationship, collaborative, and organizational skills.
Ideally, you will also have experience with:
o Proficiency in Java, Beanshell,/JavaScript, and PowerShell.
Experience with HTML, CSS, and AngularJS is a plus.
o Strong knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and
experience with database design and optimization
o Experience with REST/SOAP API integrations and web services, XML,
JSON, and other integration technologies.
o Strong knowledge of SailPoint best practices
o Automated software testing (unit, integration, contract)
o Certifications: SailPoint Identity Security Engineer Certification or
Identity Security Professional Credential are highly desirable

Pay Range: $129,300.00 -