Base Salary
$123k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate secure, scalable Java microservices for the myFICO.com platform.
- Ship production LLM-powered features including RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and tool-use patterns with observability, evaluations, and guardrails.
- Use Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot while reviewing, refactoring, and validating generated code.
- Lead design discussions and code reviews while improving code quality, test coverage, and architectural clarity.
- Partner with product management, InfoSec, and platform teams to translate business requirements into compliant technical solutions.
- Identify and resolve performance and scalability bottlenecks through profiling, refactoring, and architectural improvements.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience with core Java, Spring Boot, microservices architecture, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Production experience integrating Anthropic, Bedrock, or OpenAI LLM APIs into Java services.
- Working knowledge of SQL databases including PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL, and NoSQL databases including DynamoDB, MongoDB, and Cassandra.
- Strong application security foundation covering encryption, authentication, authorization, and secure API design.
- Experience tuning high-throughput, low-latency systems and working with event-driven architectures and asynchronous messaging patterns such as Kafka, SQS, or EventBridge.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated unit, integration, and contract testing.
- Experience with high-traffic consumer-facing platforms and a strong commitment to secure, clean, well-tested code.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain design tradeoffs to architects, engineers, and product partners.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent relevant industry experience; AWS certifications are a plus.
Benefits
- Inclusive, people-first culture focused on ownership, customer satisfaction, and respect.
- Professional development through learning experiences and opportunities to leverage individual strengths.
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and rewards programs.
- Work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events.
- Base pay range of $122,500 to $192,500 annually.
Tech Stack
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About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 200 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 4 billion payment cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, to increasing supply chain resiliency. The FICO® Score, used by 90% of top US lenders, is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the US and has been made available in over 40 other countries, improving risk management, credit access and transparency. Learn more at www.fico.com.