Position Type:
Full time
Type Of Hire:
Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)
Travel Percentage:
10 - 15%
Job Description
As the world works and lives faster, FIS is leading the way. Our fintech solutions touch nearly every market, company, and person on the planet. Our teams are inclusive and diverse. Our colleagues work together and celebrate together. If you want to advance the world of fintech, we'd like to ask you: Are you FIS?
About the team:
We are the FIS Automated Finance team, and we build software to unlock intelligent cash management, Accounts Payable (AP), and Accounts Receivables (AR) for some of the largest companies in the world. We are recognized as an industry leader for Order-to-Cash, utilizing ML and AI for intelligent automation, and AP optimization using Virtual Cards. We are building new features for our customers, accelerating time-to-value, and unlocking AP & AR services for the larger FinTech platform.
About the role:
We are looking for a Sr. Director, Software Engineering to help us build a brand-new financial technology platform for the future. This is a true builder role, inventing solutions that meet our customer needs in a new space. We are looking for someone who will take a nascent product/service and help launch and scale it. If you're passionate about creating a culture of innovation, this role is for you.
What you will be doing:
- Invest in Brilliance: Champion a culture of learning and growth, attracting the industry's best minds with unparalleled benefits, career development programs, and a relentless pursuit of innovation.
- Grow Leaders, not Followers: Empower your team to own their decisions, embrace autonomy, and challenge the status quo.
- Influence, not Dictate: Your vision will be your compass, not your whip. Earn trust through collaboration, transparency, and a deep understanding of each engineer's strengths.
- Drive technical decisions through architectural reviews, design reviews, code reviews, post-mortems, and detailed software specifications.
- Manage a team of 10 to 40 software engineers and technical leads, unblocking maximum productivity for them.
- Drive software quality, implement observability, and comply with best practices for builds and deployment.
- Provide live on-call support by participating in the team on-call rotation and owning production issues from root cause analysis to resolution.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (product, program management, design, security, compliance, etc.) to bring ideas to life.
What you will need:
- At a minimum, a Bachelor's in CS or equivalent education, and a total of 7+ years of relevant professional experience.
- 3+ years of supervising technical employees, with experience in performance management.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, asynchronous architectures, and distributed algorithms.
- A demonstrable ability to lead and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Added bonus if you have:
- 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams.
- A history of leading significant technical initiatives and delivering impactful results.
- Experience in building and scaling high-performance engineering teams.
- Experience leading projects from architectural design to production.
- Expertise in at least one area relevant to our cloud-based financial platform (e.g., fintech, distributed systems, databases, security, or front-end).
What we offer you:
- Opportunities to innovate in fintech.
- Tools for personal and professional growth.
- Inclusive and diverse work environment.
- Competitive salary and benefits.
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