Senior Engineering Manager (Backend & Platform)

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Were Fiserv a global leader in Fintech and payments and we move money and information in a way that moves the world. We connect financial institutions corporations merchants and consumers to one another millions of times a day - quickly reliably and securely. Any time you swipe your credit card pay through a mobile app or withdraw money from the bank were involved. If you want to make an impact on a global scale come make a difference at Fiserv.

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About Your Role

Fiserv is a global leader in payments and financial technology delivering end-to-end merchant and point-of-sale platformssuch as Cloverthat power millions of businesses this role you will serve as a Senior Engineering Manager driving both the people strategy and technical execution behind core high-volume enterprise backend systems. You will lead grow and empower high-performing engineering teams responsible for building and operating resilient low-latency transactional platforms capable of processing thousands of operations per second with multi-nine availability.

What Youll Do

• Manage mentor and grow a team of Tech Leads Senior Software Engineers and Backend Developers across multiple Scrum teams fostering an inclusive high-accountability engineering culture.
• Lead engineering execution and software delivery across Agile teams partnering with Product and Business leadership to align roadmaps scope technical deliverables and manage cross-team dependencies.
• Drive the technical strategy and architectural execution for high-throughput Java microservices cloud-native systems and event-driven architectures processing financial transactions at scale.
• Establish operational excellence governance standards non-functional requirements (NFRs) and observability protocols to guarantee platform reliability zero-downtime deployments and fast incident recovery.
• Direct technology modernization roadmaps API contract standards and data architecture strategies across relational and NoSQL databases.
• Responsibilities listed are not intended to be all-inclusive and may be modified as necessary.

Experience Youll Need to Have

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related technical field
• 12 total years of progressive software engineering experience.
• 3 years of direct people management experience leading software engineering teams (including managing Tech Leads Senior Engineers and IC developers).
• Strong technical mastery within the Java ecosystem including Spring Boot microservices architecture RESTful API design and distributed message brokers (Kafka RabbitMQ or Google Pub/Sub).
• 3 years of experience with relational (MySQL PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB Cassandra Redis) databases including query optimization and data modeling.
• Proven experience building and deploying cloud-native applications (AWS GCP or Azure) using Docker Kubernetes and automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated understanding of JVM performance profiling memory management and scaling high-concurrency low-latency systems.

Experience That Would Be Great to Have

• Previous engineering leadership experience within Fintech payments processing merchant POS platforms or financial settlement pipelines.
• Familiarity with polyglot environments or secondary languages (Python Go ) for automation data pipelines or full-stack integration.
• Experience with reactive programming (Spring WebFlux) serverless infrastructure (GCP Functions AWS Lambda) or event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of payment security protocols and compliance standards including PCI-DSS tokenization and mTLS security.
• Familiarity with integrating Generative AI models LLMs or AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot Cursor) into software engineering workflows.

How youll work:

• This role is on-site Monday through Friday. Fiserv considers in-person collaboration to be an essential part of this role as in-person office experiences help you with your overall onboarding experience and leads to stronger productivity.
• This role requires use of a computer and audio equipment.

Benefits at Fiserv:

• Fuel Your Life program to support your physical financial social and emotional well-being
• Paid holidays and generous time away policies
• No-cost mental health support through Employee Assistance Programs
• Living Proof program to recognize your peers extra effort with points redeemable for rewards
• Eight Employee Resource Groups to foster a collaborative culture and expand your network
• Unparalleled professional growth with training development and internal mobility opportunities
• Medical dental vision life and disability insurance options available from day one
• Retirement planning and discounted shares with the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition assistance and reimbursement program
• Paid parental caregiver and military leave

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Salary Range

These pay ranges apply to employees in Sunnyvale California. Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.

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