Full-Time

Staff Software Development Engineer

Posted on 5/8/2025

Fidelity National Information Services

Fidelity National Information Services

10,001+ employees

Provides financial technology solutions globally

Compensation Overview

$192.2k - $322.9k/yr

Senior, Expert

Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship

Bellevue, WA, USA

Hybrid work environment in Seattle/Bellevue office.

Category
FinTech Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Python
Java
Go
Requirements
  • At a minimum, a Bachelor's in CS or equivalent education, and 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
  • Proficiency in at least one modern development framework / language (e.g., Java, Python, Go).
  • Ability to analyze complex problems, identify root causes, and architect effective solutions.
  • Experience leading projects from architectural design to production, while setting and maintaining high standards of technical excellence across your team.
  • Expertise in at least one area relevant to our cloud-based financial platform (e.g., fintech, distributed systems, databases, security, or front-end).
Responsibilities
  • Translate user and business needs into clean, maintainable, scalable, and well documented code.
  • Define the technical strategy, scope, and execution plan for major workstreams or highly technical problems with long-term impact.
  • Unravel ambiguous technical challenges, making them tractable and leading them through to successful solutions.
  • Champion innovation and identify new technologies and solutions to move our platform forward.
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to team members, fostering knowledge sharing and growth.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate business needs into elegant, scalable, and secure technical architectures.
  • Influence design and planning decisions across multiple teams, even those with competing priorities.
  • Manage broad technical areas, requiring deep expertise and the ability to navigate complex relationships.
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, security, scalability, and adherence to coding standards.
  • Provide live on-call support by participating in the team on-call rotation and owning production issues from root cause analysis to resolution to future prevention.
Desired Qualifications
  • Typical qualifications for the role are 10+ years of relevant professional experience or a combination of work experience and advanced education.
  • A demonstrable ability to lead and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
  • A history of leading significant technical initiatives and delivering impactful results.
  • Experience in building and scaling high-performance engineering teams.
  • Experience with live on-call and 24/7 operation of production services.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Experience with version control systems (Git), and DevOps practices like continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
  • A strong understanding of security best practices for building enterprise applications.
Fidelity National Information Services

Fidelity National Information Services

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Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) provides financial technology solutions that help financial institutions, businesses, and developers manage payments, banking, and investment processes. Their products streamline transactions and improve the efficiency of financial operations. FIS stands out from competitors by leveraging decades of industry experience and a wide range of services tailored to meet the specific needs of their clients. The company's goal is to enhance the way money is managed globally, ensuring that financial systems work in harmony.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Jacksonville, Florida

Founded

1968

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Acquisition of Global Payments' unit enhances cross-selling opportunities with banks.
  • Cloud-native platforms enable real-time data integration and improved decision-making.
  • AI integration enhances customer experience and satisfaction in financial services.

What critics are saying

  • Integration challenges with Global Payments' unit may disrupt operations.
  • Reliance on cloud solutions exposes FIS to potential outages and data breaches.
  • Increased competition from fintech startups could erode FIS's market share.

What makes Fidelity National Information Services unique

  • FIS's Money Movement Hub simplifies payment processing for financial institutions.
  • The Quantum Cloud Edition enhances risk visibility and data-driven decision-making for treasurers.
  • FIS's 'show-tell-show' approach improves client understanding and system implementation.

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Company News

PYMNTS
May 8th, 2025
From Nice-To-Have To Nonnegotiable: How Genai Is Redefining The Office Of The Cfo

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the new electricity powering financial operations, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the office of the CFO. “It’s no longer a nice-to-have,” Steve Wiley, VP of product management at FIS, told PYMNTS. “Artificial intelligence is a must-have, and that’s happened very, very quickly.” Even as recently as a [] The post From Nice-to-Have to Nonnegotiable: How GenAI Is Redefining the Office of the CFO appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

PYMNTS
May 7th, 2025
Cfos Move From Ledgers To Leaders As Back Offices Become Command Centers

First comes disruption, then comes transformation. That’s something enterprise CFOs and treasurers are finding out in real time. At the heart of this transformation is real-time data’s impact across the back office. Traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, often siloed and batch-oriented, are giving way to cloud-native platforms that offer continuous, integrated data flows; while [] The post CFOs Move From Ledgers to Leaders as Back Offices Become Command Centers appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

PYMNTS
May 6th, 2025
Fis Goes All In On The Issuer

Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) said during a Tuesday (May 6) first-quarter earnings report that it continues to see strong demand from banks to modernize their core banking systems. Executives pointed to the company’s pending acquisition of Global Payments’ issuing solutions unit as an event that is expected to add cross-selling opportunities to those banks. [] The post FIS Goes All in on the Issuer appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

PYMNTS
May 1st, 2025
Fis Debuts Money Movement Hub To Ease Payment Friction

FIS debuted a tool to help financial institutions link to payment networks and process payments in one place. The FinTech’s Money Movement Hub is designed for institutions ranging from “super regional” banks to community lenders, according to a Thursday (May 1) press release. “While consumers’ expectations for payment ease and efficiency have increased, many institutions are struggling to meet these demands using dated and disparate technology, leaving them exposed to settlement delays and security vulnerabilities,” the release said

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May 1st, 2025
FIS Harmonizes Payments With Launch of Unified Money Movement Hub

FIS harmonizes payments with launch of unified Money Movement Hub.

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