Sr. Software Engineer (C++)

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 senior 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 closely with product managers to understand priorities and usage scenarios of product features.

• Collaborate with user experience personnel to understand personas within usage scenarios.

• Work with architects to drive the design for your software platform capability.

• Collaborate within working groups of software engineers to follow software engineering standards, guidance, and processes.

• Continuously improve engineering practices for the software platform to support efficiency, reliability, and serviceability goals.

• Assist research, case studies and prototypes on technologies to ensure the software platform remains the leading analytic decisioning platform.

• Coach other software engineers on creating their domain designs.

• Collaborate with QA engineers to design and implement non-functional tests.

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

• 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 life cycle of intelligence execution, from authoring to execution to observing.

• Experience building sophisticated 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 expertise across all deployment models on public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.

• Experience creating, documenting, and communicating software designs for complex products.

• Skilled in domain-driven, event-driven, and microservice architectures.

• Proficient in building, tracking, and communicating plans within agile processes.

• Experience 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, including its control plane, ecosystem, and Docker is a plus.

• Python and CMake experience are beneficial.

• 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: $123,000 to $193,000 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 advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much