Senior Engineering Manager; Backend & Platform

Senior Engineering Manager (Backend & Platform)

Calling all innovators - find your future 're Fiserv, a global leader in Fintech and payments, and we move money and information in a way that moves the world. We connect financial institutions, corporations, merchants and consumers to one another millions of times a day - quickly, reliably, and securely. Any time you swipe your credit card, pay through a mobile app, or withdraw money from the bank, we're involved.

If you want to make an impact on a global scale, come make a difference at Fiserv.

About Your Role

Fiserv is a global leader in payments and financial technology, delivering end-to-end merchant and point-of-sale platforms—such as Clover—that power millions of businesses worldwide. In this role, you will serve as a Senior Engineering Manager driving both the people strategy and technical execution behind core, high-volume enterprise backend systems. You will lead, grow, and empower high-performing engineering teams responsible for building and operating resilient, low-latency transactional platforms capable of processing thousands of operations per second with multi-nine availability.

What You'll Do

• 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 No
  
  SQL databases.
• Responsibilities listed are not intended to be all-inclusive and may be modified as necessary.

Experience You'll Need to Have

• 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 No
  
  SQL (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.

Experience That Would Be Great to Have

• 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 Web Flux), 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., Git Hub Copilot, Cursor) into software engineering workflows.

How You'll Work

• 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…