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 As a Senior or Lead Backend Engineer on our Applied AI team, you will be at the forefront of integrating robust data engineering with next-generation AI capabilities. You will design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems and data pipelines that power critical functions across our platform — from fraud investigation and decision automation to process optimization. In this role, you will champion high data quality, system reliability, and stringent governance across all AI-driven initiatives, making a lasting impact on FICO 's platform. This is an opportunity to collaborate with a high-caliber team and drive meaningful innovation through your deep expertise in backend engineering and applied AI. What You'll Contribute Design and deploy scalable backend systems and data pipelines that seamlessly integrate applied AI capabilities into FICO 's analytics and decision management platform. Build high-quality solutions for data ingestion, transformation, and storage, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data flow for real-time analytics. Design and implement LLM-powered solutions for decision automation, fraud investigation, and process automation within FICO 's platform. Develop sophisticated prompting strategies and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures tailored to high-stakes, mission-critical applications. Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to develop microservices and APIs that enable intelligent, data-driven decision-making. Optimize distributed architectures and implement real-time processing frameworks to support high-volume, low-latency workloads. Implement advanced monitoring, testing, and performance optimization techniques to ensure system reliability, security, and scalability. Define and evolve architectural p
