Java Lead Developer

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

“Come join our product development team to provide thought leadership and innovation. This role provides the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of our business, work closely with product management to architect, design and develop a highly feature rich product.” – VP, Software Engineering.

What You’ll Contribute

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support the capabilities of a large world-class enterprise-level platform. 

• Create scalable microservices of high performance, high availability, interoperability, and reliability. 

• Contribute designs and technical proof of concepts and adhere to standards and guidance from architecture team members. 

• Participate with Senior engineers and Product Management to create epics and stories and define their technical acceptance criteria. 

• Experienced with enterprise architectural models and distributed software design. 

• Serve as source of technical expertise, mentor junior engineers, and raise quality standards.

• Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers in the technical areas.

• Do code reviews and enforce that the team follows coding standards and best practices

• Manage ambiguity and moderate levels of complexity and proactively discover and attack issues. 

• Share ownership in quality, test automation, continuous integration and delivery, and production operation 

• Quickly escalate challenges and risks incurred during projects. 

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelor’s/master’s in computer science or related disciplines, with minimum 7 years in software architecture, design, development and testing.

• Expert in Java (Java 17 and above), Spring, Spring Boot, Maven/Gradle, Docker, Git, GitHub is a must.

• Experienced with Data Structure, Algorithm, Multi threading, Memory Management etc.

• Strong in High level and Low level System Design.

• Prior experience of Creating and Presenting Architecture diagrams like C4, System Landscape, etc.

• Strong understanding of Microservices Architecture, Principles, and Patterns.

• Experience of implementing RESTful and gRPC APIs.

• Strong in Cloud engineering areas like Kubernetes, and AWS/Azure/GCP.

• Knowledge of databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Cassandra.

• Experience with Agile or Scaled Agile software development.

• Experience with data engineering services such as Data Lakehouse, ETL, Data Pipelines, or Business Intelligence is highly desirable.

• Experience in software design with strong foundation of design models and database structures.

• Good documentation skills. Exposure to Confluence.

• Experience in developing scalable, highly available and high performing applications for Cloud.

• Understand the design and development approaches required to build a scalable and resilient service

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to present and discuss the design with architects and conduct technical discussions with teams.

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.

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 more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

•    Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.

•    Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

•    Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career.  Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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