Lead Platform Engineer

Fair Isaac Corporation

Job Overview

Location

Work from Home, United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Lead Platform Engineer at FICO, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the architecture and evolution of enterprise-grade analytics software used by global financial institutions, insurers, and retailers to make data-driven decisions that impact millions of lives.
• You will contribute directly to FICO’s mission of empowering businesses with AI, machine learning, and optimization technologies, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and innovation of core products that underpin critical financial operations worldwide.
• Design, develop, deploy, and support modules of large-scale enterprise-level products, ensuring seamless integration across complex systems while maintaining the highest standards of performance and reliability.
• Participate in architectural design discussions, influencing long-term technical direction and evaluating trade-offs between scalability, security, interoperability, and maintainability of software components.
• Develop high-level development timelines by analyzing project scope, existing codebases, and technical dependencies, enabling accurate planning and cross-team alignment.
• Evaluate new design specifications against quality benchmarks, proactively identifying architectural risks and advocating for improvements that enhance system resilience and future extensibility.
• Assess and optimize software for stability, compatibility, scalability, interoperability, and performance under real-world workloads, leveraging profiling tools and benchmarking methodologies.
• Maintain and upgrade product source codebases, applying patches, refactoring legacy components, and ensuring compatibility with evolving platforms and dependencies.
• Demonstrate technical leadership through internal and external knowledge sharing — including publishing white papers, delivering presentations at tech conferences, and contributing to engineering blogs.
• Continuously learn and evaluate emerging technologies in areas such as cloud-native architectures, containerization, microservices, and data processing frameworks to inform platform evolution.
• Serve as a trusted technical mentor to junior engineers, guiding best practices in coding, design patterns, debugging, and documentation while fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Collaborate closely with product management, professional services, and QA teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions that meet customer needs and regulatory expectations.
• Contribute to an inclusive, innovative engineering culture where ownership, customer focus, and mutual respect are core values, and where your ideas directly influence product strategy and team growth.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience in software architecture, design, development, and testing.
• Proven experience in software design with a strong grasp of design patterns, database modeling (relational and/or NoSQL), and data structure optimization.
• Deep proficiency in programming languages and database concepts, including SQL, transaction management, indexing strategies, and data integrity principles.
• Demonstrated ability to write clear product specifications and document features for technical and non-technical audiences, including architects, product managers, and customers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical designs to architects and align cross-functional teams on strategy and requirements.
• Familiarity with the business domains FICO serves (e.g., credit risk, fraud detection, lending, insurance) to better contextualize technical decisions and anticipate user needs.
• Experience delivering product demonstrations or technical walkthroughs is considered a strong advantage for engaging stakeholders and showcasing platform capabilities.

🏖️ Benefits

• Inclusive culture rooted in FICO’s core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers, and Earn the Respect of Others — fostering psychological safety, collaboration, and innovation.
• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact while growing professionally through access to challenging projects, mentorship, and continuous learning initiatives.
• Highly competitive total compensation package, including base salary ($105,000–$165,000), performance bonuses, equity awards, and comprehensive benefits that reward excellence and long-term contribution.
• People-first work environment with flexible remote work options, employee resource groups, wellness programs, and social events designed to support work-life balance and community building.
• Access to cutting-edge technology stacks and opportunities to work on big data analytics, AI/ML platforms, and optimization engines used by Global 1000 enterprises.

Skills & Technologies

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Remote

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About Fair Isaac Corporation

Fair Isaac Corporation, commonly known as FICO, is a global data analytics and decision management software company. FICO provides analytics and decision management software for financial services, telecommunications, health and government, and other industries. The company is best known for its FICO Score, a credit score widely used by lenders to assess credit risk. FICO's solutions help businesses make better decisions, improve operational efficiency, and increase profitability by leveraging data and advanced analytics. Their offerings include credit scoring, fraud detection, debt collection, and customer management tools, enabling clients to manage risk and drive growth.

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