What does a successful Director of Software Engineering do at Fiserv?

You‘ll be a key leader of success of our Core Acquiring Front End engineering group
within the Fiserv Global Business 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.

What you will do:

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
Drive modernization and migration of several real-time applications to AWS that are
low-latency, high-volume APIs that run 24x7 supporting critical business processes
Reengineer on-premise applications to highly resilient, highly available, low-latency
applications running on AWS
Develop and document high-quality code to solve strategically important problems
Provide high-quality code and design review feedback to other 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 in one or more general-purpose programming language such as Java and
Python
5+ years in a leadership role with a focus on continuous improvement initiatives and setting
priorities and plans to meet business goals and objectives
5+ years of practical cloud-native experience, including AWS
5+ years of experience with distributed systems and microservices architectures
2+ years of experience leading cloud transformation in a payments or financial services
environment
Bachelor‘s degree in computer science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination
of education, military.