Job Description

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!
The Opportunity
This is a critical engineering role on the Design System team at FICO, where youll help shape the future of our centralized design system. Building on the strong foundation of our Angular-based component library, youll work on both core system components and real-world product features for FICO Platform. As a lead engineer, youll collaborate with cross-functional teams across Product Design, Architecture, Marketing, and Engineering to deliver scalable, high-quality UI building blocks and micro-frontends. This is a chance to make a meaningful impact on the frontend ecosystem at a FICOxe2x80x94empowering teams to create modern, accessible, and consistent user experiences across the enterprise. Sr Director-Software Engineering
What Youll Contribute

• Build and maintain robust, scalable Angular components aligned with the FICO Design System.
• Push the boundaries of user experience for our Platform users, by helping to build out our modular, micro-frontend-based interfaces centered around an interactive canvas.
• Lead the development of pages and features for FICO Platform using Angular, HTML, CSS, and IRIS Angular components.
• Serve as a technical resource for teams implementing micro-frontends with IRIS, guiding best practices and ensuring quality.
• Collaborate closely with Product Design, Architecture, Engineering, Product Management, and Marketing teams to align components with business goals and design standards.
• Participate in IRIS office hours to provide hands-on support to developers and customers.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, ensuring consistent implementation of Angular best practices.
• Build tools and frameworks to enhance developer experience, including Nx generators and executors.
• Explore connecting micro-frontends to the backend using the Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) pattern with Node.js.
• Maintain and improve the performance and organization of the IRIS component library and frontend repository.
• Contribute to FICOs growth-oriented engineering culture by leading technical discussions, conducting code reviews, and advocating for clean, maintainable code.

What Were Seeking

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Deep knowledge of Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and modern web technologies, including state management (e.g. NgRx or Redux) and asynchronous programming.
• Ability to build, extend, and maintain component libraries for design systems in complex enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams, mentor developers, and present technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• A strong focus on empowering engineers with tools, patterns, and best practices for building micro-frontends and scalable UIs.
• Experience contributing to or leading the technical direction of large repositories, including organizational structure, performance optimizations, and version upgrades.
• Strong understanding of performance optimization techniques for web applications, including lazy loading, tree shaking, and efficient DOM manipulation.
• Stay updated on emerging frontend technologies, driving continuous improvements in the stack through research, experimentation, and community engagement with a focus on efficiency, performance, and scalability.
• Experience with Git and Git-based workflows, Nx, Node.js, Bootstrap, and modern build tools.
• Experience working with product designers, architects, and knowledge of accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG) is beneficial.
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Jest, and Cypress or Playwright is nice to have.
• Preferred experience with HTML Canvas and GoJS for building interactive, accessible visualizations and diagramming tools.
• Understanding of modern CSS, including Flexbox, Grid, CSS animations, and pre-processors like SCSS is advantageous.

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

Why Make a Move to FICO?
At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today Big Data analytics. Youll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.
FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

• Credit Scoring xe2x80x94 FICOxc2xae Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.

• Fraud Detection and Security xe2x80x94 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

• Lending xe2x80x94 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICOs solutions, placing us among the worlds top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the worlds largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people just like you who thrive on the collaboration and innovation thats nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. Well provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career. Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!
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FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and were proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they dont meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidates profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.
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