Senior Director of Software Engineering

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Job Title

Senior Director of Software Engineering

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 multiple teams 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/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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Salary Range

$167,200.00 - $276,100.00

These pay ranges apply to employees in New Jersey, New York and California. Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.

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For incentive eligible associates, the successful candidate is eligible for an annual incentive opportunity which may be delivered as a mix of cash bonus and equity awards in the Company's sole discretion.

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• Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).

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