Director of Software Engineering

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Were Fiserv a global leader in Fintech and payments and we move money and information in a way that moves the world. We connect financial institutions corporations merchants and consumers to one another millions of times a day - quickly reliably and securely. Any time you swipe your credit card pay through a mobile app or withdraw money from the bank were involved. If you want to make an impact on a global scale come make a difference at Fiserv.

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About your role:

As a Director of Software Engineering youll be a key leader of success of our Core Acquiring Authorization engineering group within the Fiserv Merchant Solutions (Payment Acceptance) business. We process over 350 million payment transactions per day with a peak throughput of over 8000 transactions per second while maintaining millisecond-fast response time; all of this is done for some of the largest merchants in the U.S. In this fast-paced online transaction processing environment youll be a passionate critical problem-solver who can balance platform stability and resiliency along with modern engineering practices and solutions.

What youll do:

• Lead manage mentor and inspire a team of software engineers.
• Set clear performance expectations and KPIs conduct performance reviews and support career development for all the team members.
• Build operate and modernize an online transaction processing application that underpins a 24x7 critical business processes.
• Reengineer on-premises applications to highly resilient highly available low-latency applications running on AWS.
• Develop and document high-quality code to solve strategically important problems.
• Provide high-quality code and design review feedback to other engineers while defining and leading the adoption of standards and best practices.

Experience youll need to have:

• 15 years of experience in software engineering or similar roles.
• 10 years of experience in one or more general-purpose programming language such as C or Java.
• 5 years of hands-on leadership experience with Payments Processing at large scale.
• 5 years in a leadership role with a focus on continuous improvement initiatives and setting priorities and plans to meet business goals and objectives.
• 5 years of experience with distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Bachelors degree in computer science or a related field or an equivalent combination of education military and work experience.

Experience that would be great to have:

• Experience leading and/or supporting platforms running on HPE NonStop (Tandem).
• Practical cloud-native experience including AWS.
• Knowledge of international payment systems and cross-border transactions.
• Experience with cloud-based payment solutions and infrastructure.
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration tools.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies such as blockchain AI and machine learning.
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like Jenkins GitLab and SonarQube.

Important information about this role:

• This role is on-site Monday through Friday. Fiserv considers in-person collaboration to be an essential part of this role as in-person office experiences help you with your overall onboarding experience and leads to stronger productivity.
• You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role. Individuals with temporary visas including but not limited to F-1 (OPT CPT STEM) H-1B H-2 or TN or any candidate requiring sponsorship now or in the future will not be considered for this role.
• This is a full-time direct-hire position and no contract options for unsolicited agency submissions will be considered.
• All offers of employment are contingent on standard background checks. Fiserv and certain of its affiliated companies are federal state and/or local government contractors. Should this position support a Federal Government contract now or in the future the successful candidate will be subject to a background check conducted by the U.S. Government to determine eligibility and suitability for federal contract employment for public trust or sensitive positions. Positions that support state and/or local contracts also may require additional background checks to determine eligibility and suitability.

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