FIS · 4 days ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$189K/yr - $318K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Translate user and business needs into clean, maintainable, scalable, and well-documented code.

Define the technical strategy, scope, and execution plan for major workstreams or highly technical problems with long-term impact.

Unravel ambiguous technical challenges, making them tractable and leading them through to successful solutions.

Champion innovation and identify new technologies and solutions to move the platform forward.

Provide technical leadership and guidance to team members, fostering knowledge sharing and growth.

Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate business needs into elegant, scalable, and secure technical architectures.

Influence design and planning decisions across multiple teams, even those with competing priorities.

Manage broad technical areas, requiring deep expertise and the ability to navigate complex relationships.

Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, security, scalability, and adherence to coding standards.

Provide live on-call support by participating in the team on-call rotation and owning production issues from root cause analysis to resolution to future prevention.

Qualification

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JavaPythonGoArchitectural DesignTechnical ExcellenceCloud-Based Financial PlatformFintechDistributed SystemsDatabasesSecurityFront-EndProblem-SolvingLeadershipEngineering Team LeadershipTechnical Initiative LeadershipScaling TeamsCloud Platforms AWSCloud Platforms AzureCloud Platforms GCPVersion Control Systems (Git)DevOps Practices (CI/CD)Security Best PracticesMentoringCollaborationInnovationCommunicationInfluence

Required

At a minimum, a Bachelor's in CS or equivalent education, and 5 + years of relevant professional experience.

Proficiency in at least one modern development framework / language (e.g., Java, Python, Go).

Ability to analyze complex problems, identify root causes, and architect effective solutions.

Experience leading projects from architectural design to production, while setting and maintaining high standards of technical excellence across your team.

Expertise in at least one area relevant to our cloud-based financial platform (e.g., fintech, distributed systems, databases, security, or front-end).