FICO
Sr/Lead AI Backend Data Engineering - GenAI
Work from Home, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$140k-$220kDetected 30 days ago
PythonJavaGoNoSQLVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKafkaMachine LearningSparkData EngineeringLLMsRAGA/B TestingResearchCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingHadoop
About the role
- In this role, you will champion high data quality, system reliability, and stringent governance across all AI-driven initiatives, making a lasting impact on FICO's platform.
Responsibilities
- You will design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems and data pipelines that power critical functions across our platform - from fraud investigation and decision automation to process optimization.
- This is an opportunity to collaborate with a high-caliber team and drive meaningful innovation through your deep expertise in backend engineering and applied AI.
- Design and deploy scalable backend systems and data pipelines that seamlessly integrate applied AI capabilities into FICO's analytics and decision management platform.
- Build high-quality solutions for data ingestion, transformation, and storage, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data flow for real-time analytics.
- Design and implement LLM-powered solutions for decision automation, fraud investigation, and process automation within FICO's platform.
- Develop sophisticated prompting strategies and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures tailored to high-stakes, mission-critical applications.
- Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to develop microservices and APIs that enable intelligent, data-driven decision-making.
- Implement advanced monitoring, testing, and performance optimization techniques to ensure system reliability, security, and scalability.
- Define and evolve architectural patterns that support FICO's analytics and decisioning solutions at scale.
- Lead and mentor engineering team members, promoting best practices in software development, data engineering, AI integration, and systems design.
Requirements
- Solid experience with testing frameworks (including A/B testing), performance optimization, and production monitoring/observability practices.
Nice to have
- In-depth experience in backend or data engineering, with a demonstrated track record of delivering complex, large-scale production systems.
- Hands-on experience with big data frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) and a strong understanding of both relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Skills
- Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or equivalent languages, with a commitment to clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Compensation
- $140,000 to $220,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
Benefits
- The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
- 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.
Company info
- 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.
- An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
Visa & Work Authorization
- candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
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