Software Development Engineering Manager

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Job Description

We are FIS. Our technology powers the world's economy and our teams bring innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities. If you're ready to start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we'd like to know: Are you FIS?

NOTE:

• This position is hybrid (3 days onsite) in our FIS Office locations in Chicago (Illinois), Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Atlanta (Georgia) and Jacksonville (Florida).
• Current and future sponsorship not available for this position

About the Team:

We are the premiere digital transformation partner for financial institutions committed to the future of banking and to creating safe and personalized customer experiences that help people better manage their financial lives. Our fully integrated and flexible platform is built on years of digital lending experience, enabling digital agility within months and a full suite of end-to-end consumer, small business and embedded finance solutions that fit the way people want to bank.

FIS technology powers the world's economy and our teams bring innovation to life. If you are ready to start learning, growing, and making an impact with a career in fintech, we encourage you to apply. Are you FIS?

About the Role:

As an Engineering Team Lead with strong back-end expertise, you'll spend your days guiding the design and delivery of Java and Spring Boot-based services, APIs, and integrations that power scalable fintech applications. You'll balance hands-on coding with setting technical direction, reviewing designs, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Alongside your technical leadership, you'll facilitate grooming sessions, assign and unblock work, ensure test coverage, and coordinate across teams on releases and dependencies. You'll mentor engineers through code reviews and day-to-day guidance, raising the technical bar for the team. You'll also drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, setting the tone for how your team leverages AI for code quality, reviews, and system design.

What You Will Be Doing:

Back-End Technical Leadership

• Drive service and API design using Java, Spring Boot, and related technologies
• Assess and balance feature work vs. tech debt; provide high-level LOEs
• Ensure robust test coverage and technical documentation

Hands-On Development

• Write, review, and maintain scalable back-end code for microservices and integrations
• Troubleshoot issues across distributed systems, environments, and configs
• Collaborate with QA on feature test plans

Team Execution & Quality

• Assign and unblock work across sprints, ensuring progress against priorities
• Conduct and coordinate code reviews for complex PRs
• Mentor engineers, fostering technical growth and accountability
• Champion AI-forward best practices, mentoring engineers on integrating AI tools into their workflow

Cross-Team & Stakeholder Coordination

• Partner with product managers and architects on release scope and dependencies
• Support release deployments, tenant configs, and environment setup
• Lead post-mortem reviews and continuous improvement efforts
• Communicate technical scope and project status to stakeholders

Growth into People Management

• Take on performance management, career development, and hiring decisions as the role evolves
• Lead onboarding of new engineers and run daily standups and team rituals
• Drive backlog prioritization and ensure the team remains unblocked and focused

What you Bring:

• 8+ years of software development experience, with deep back-end expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs/microservices
• Experience with several of the following present in the environment; Java, Spring Boot, Micronaut, Temporal, ActiveMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Git, ReactJS
• Experience designing and integrating large-scale, service-oriented architecture
• Experience adopting or guiding teams in AI-driven development workflows
• Familiarity with event-driven systems (ActiveMQ, Temporal) and data stores (PostgreSQL, Redis)
• Some front-end exposure (JavaScript/TypeScript, React) to support end-to-end coordination
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical strategy, with an interest in growing into people management
• Strong understanding of performance tuning, scalability, and distributed system challenges
• Comfortable in agile environments with tools like Jira, Confluence, and Git

What We Offer You:

• A voice in the future of fintech.
• Continuous learning and development.
• Collaborative work environment.
• Opportunities to give back.
• Competitive salary and benefits.

Privacy Statement

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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