Lead Software Engineer (Backend/C++, AI/ML)

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

“We are seeking a lead software engineer (skilled in back-end/C++) to contribute to the technical development of an analytic decisioning platform.  You will be part of a highly energetic team of software engineers to create the next generation software platform for FICO’s feature management capabilities. This role involves contributing on a backend engineering team responsible for feature processing of high-volume low latency decisioning and analytics execution. These capabilities embody patented and unique market value that drives critical business value in a high growth area. This opportunity offers a unique leadership role to work with cutting edge technology applied to one-of-a-kind business problems.” – Hiring Manager

What You’ll Contribute

• Work with product managers to understand priorities and usage scenarios of product features.
• Collaborate with user experience personnel to understand personas within usage scenarios.
• Participate in designing software platform capabilities in collaboration with architects.
• Work within software engineering teams to follow established software engineering standards, guidance, and processes.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering practices to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and serviceability of the software platform.
• Assist in research, case studies, and prototypes on technologies to ensure the software platform remains at the forefront of analytic decisioning.
• Provide support and guidance to fellow software engineers on domain designs.
• Work with QA engineers to design and implement non-functional tests.

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline.
• 7+ years of IT experience with an emphasis on software engineering.
• Experience designing, building, deploying, and operating commercial software that integrates sophisticated AI & ML stateful algorithms executing in low milliseconds.
• Experience with commercial software that covers the entire lifecycle of intelligence execution, from authoring to execution to observing.
• Proficient with integrating model development tools within AI & ML tools such as Jupyter and SageMaker.
• Experience building runtimes in C++ that integrate various other languages such as Python.
• 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 proficiency across all deployment models on public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.
• Experience creating, documenting, and communicating software designs for complex products.
• Skilled with domain-driven, event-driven, and microservice architectures.
• Proficient in building, tracking, and communicating plans within agile processes.
• Experience with supporting production software deployments.
• Proficient with commercial software product processes.
• Experience with multiple public cloud technologies is a plus, e.g., AWS, Google, Azure.
• Experience with Kubernetes control plane and ecosystem is nice to have.
• Preferred experience using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values:  Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.
• The targeted base pay range for this role is: $105,000 to $165,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
   

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Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics.  You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using