1 day ago
Base Salary
$206k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve core banking capabilities for products, accounts, transactions, transfers, journals, balances, interest, workflows, and compliance.
- Define reliable APIs, events, and data contracts for a coherent and auditable banking platform.
- Own services across design, implementation, testing, deployment, operation, and continuous improvement.
- Participate in on-call and incident response across distributed services, data infrastructure, and event-driven workflows.
- Establish observability, alerting, operational controls, recovery procedures, capacity planning, and disaster recovery practices.
- Design systems for correctness, auditability, scalability, and resilience at Tier-1 banking scale.
- Improve automated testing, deployment safety, rollback, recovery, and production-engineering practices.
- Mentor and coach engineers while sharing knowledge and promoting engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Deep experience designing and building complex distributed systems at scale using a strongly typed, compiled language; Go is preferred, with comparable experience considered.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming technologies such as Kafka or equivalent platforms.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, consistency, invariants, idempotency, failure modes, and distributed-system trade-offs.
- Substantial experience operating and debugging critical production systems, including application, data, and infrastructure boundaries.
- Practical experience with observability, reliability engineering, capacity planning, deployment safety, disaster recovery, automated testing, GitOps, and modern production engineering.
- Ability to evaluate and clearly communicate architectural trade-offs and work across coding, architecture, operations, and cross-team delivery.
- Ability to use AI effectively while retaining human ownership of design, validation, security, and production outcomes.
Benefits
- Full-time employment with competitive compensation.
- In-person work every day in the company's NYC office; the role is not remote or hybrid.
- Opportunity to combine startup-level autonomy and technical depth with enterprise-scale resources and impact.
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About FIS
FIS builds financial technology for banks, merchants, and capital-markets firms, including core banking platforms, payment processing, fraud/risk tools, and investment/treasury systems. It sells enterprise software, cloud services, and outsourced processing via long-term contracts and transaction-based fees. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a Fortune 500 public company trading on the NYSE (FIS) with customers worldwide.