Full Stack Python Engineer

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

“It is an exciting time to work for FICO. We have been named a leader in the growing market of digital decisioning platforms. In this role you will join a team of engineers implementing innovative solutions that enable simulating decisioning systems. Your contributions will enable fostering data to enable automated tuning of embedded business logic, allowing constant adaption of the system behaviour to rapidly evolving business goals. You will need to be an experienced Python engineer interested in developing data intensive, distributed applications. You will have the opportunity to convert business requirements into technical solutions, working in a team of high-profile developers. Your work will offer significant opportunities for cross team collaboration, and implementing development best practices, and exposure to the financial services business domain.” – Hiring Manager.  

What You’ll Contribute

• Development of a Python data processing engine, analysing large volumes of transactional data. 
• REST and gRPC based integration with other FICO Platform services.  
• Design and architecture of a service running in a cloud ecosystem of decisioning services. 
• Build in quality and automated testing at all stages of development and deployment. 
• Understand challenging business needs and convert them into technical solutions. 
• Adhere to the highest levels of agile development and quality practices. 
• Participate in the complete lifecycle of your software from inception to L3 customer support. 
• Leadership in engagements with other engineering teams to gather requirements from other products. 
• Embrace a team culture of excellence and work with colleagues to deliver as a pack. 

What We’re Seeking

• Extensive experience in a hands-on engineering role developing commercial software, ideally numerically intensive applications or transactional data processing.  
• Expert knowledge of the Python language and ecosystem. 
• Knowledge of container-based architectures. 
• Experience working as part of a development team using agile scrum methodologies. 
• Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science or related discipline. 
• Experience with JavaScript frontend or Java backend development would be an advantage. 

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values:  Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

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Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics.  You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

•    Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.

•    Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

•    Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career.  Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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