Senior Engineering Manager (Backend & Platform)

- 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.

- Bachelor's or Master's 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.

- Previous engineering leadership experience within Fintech, payments processing, merchant POS platforms, or financial settlement pipelines. - Familiarity with polyglot environments or secondary languages (Python, Go, Node.js) 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.

- 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.

- 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

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

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.