Software Engineer - Lead Engineer (SpringBoot, gRPC, K8s, Dockers, Helm charts, GitOps, AWS)
FICOBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted March 5, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 200 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 4 billion payment cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, to increasing supply chain resiliency. The FICO® Score, used by 90% of top US lenders, is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the US and has been made available in over 40 other countries, improving risk management, credit access and transparency. Learn more at www.fico.com.
Job Description
Join our world-class team at FICO as a Lead Software Engineer, developing a deep understanding of our business and working closely with professional services and product management. You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying modules of large-scale enterprise-level products, and mentoring junior and mid-level engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in software development, building scalable, robust, and high-performance distributed systems
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related disciplines
- Strong expertise in Java (Java 11/17+) with deep hands-on experience in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and the broader Spring ecosystem
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating microservices-based architectures at scale
- Extensive experience building and consuming REST APIs and gRPC APIs with a strong understanding of API design principles, versioning, security, and contract-first development
- Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services including EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS/RDBMS, and cloud-native design patterns for resilience, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Strong proficiency with Docker containerization and Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration
- Experience with Helm Charts for Kubernetes package management
- Proficiency in GitOps-based deployment workflows and GitOps CI/CD pipelines (e.g., ArgoCD)
- Strong knowledge of database concepts, programming, and optimization with experience in RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar)
- Strong foundation in software design principles including design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and database structures
- Experience in writing product specifications and technical documentation
- Excellent communication skills
- Business domain knowledge
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor engineering teams
- Ability to drive scrum processes and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery within agile teams
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation
- Benefits and rewards programs
- Inclusive culture
- Opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally
- Work/life balance
- Employee resource groups
- Social events