What does a successful Senior Director of Software Engineering do at Fiserv?
You'll 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 8,000 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, you'll be a passionate critical problem-solver who can balance platform stability and resiliency along with modern engineering practices and solutions.
What you will do:
- Act as a platform owner and engineering leader for a collection of OLTP Payment platforms (stack: C, AIX).
- 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.
- Engineer solutions to be highly resilient, highly available, and low-latency performance.
- Develop and document high-quality code to solve strategically important problems.
- Provide high-quality code and design review feedback to engineers while defining and leading the adoption of standards and best practices.
What you will need to have:
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering or similar roles.
- 10+ years of experience engineering in C.
- 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.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, military, and work experience.
What would be great to have:
- Knowledge of international payment systems and cross-border transactions.
- Experience with AIX / UNIX environments.
- 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 info about this role:
- We’re better together! This role is fully on-site.
- This is a full-time, direct-hire position, and no contract options or unsolicited agency submissions will be considered
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