Software Engineer Senior Lead
Little Rock, ARFull-timePosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Software Engineer Senior Lead provides technical leadership in designing and delivering reliable, secure, and scalable software solutions. The role guides complex engineering work from design through production, partners with product and business teams, and supports sound technical decisions. It also strengthens development practices through architecture, code quality, testing, and continuous improvement.
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Position Type
Full time
Type Of Hire
Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)
Job Description
Every day at FIS, innovators, problem solvers and changemakers work together to create technology that advances the world of finance. We embrace new ideas, challenge what's possible and empower our teams to make a lasting impact. If you're ready to help shape the future of fintech, unlock your next chapter with FIS.
About The Role
As a Software Engineer Senior Lead, you will provide technical leadership while designing and delivering reliable, secure and scalable software solutions. You will guide complex engineering work from design through production, partner with product and business teams, and help engineers make sound technical decisions. You will also strengthen development practices through thoughtful architecture, code quality, testing and continuous improvement.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, testing and delivery of complex software solutions
- Translate business needs into clear technical designs and practical implementation plans
- Guide technical decisions related to architecture, performance, security, reliability and maintainability
- Review code, resolve complex technical issues and improve engineering standards across the team
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, delivery and business partners throughout the software development lifecycle
What You Bring
Required qualifications
- Strong experience with FIS Systematics core banking technology.
- Strong experience designing, developing and supporting production software
- Experience leading complex technical work and guiding engineers through design and delivery
- Strong knowledge of software architecture, development practices, source control, automated testing and code review
- Ability to troubleshoot complex systems and recommend practical, sustainable solutions
- Clear communication skills and experience working with technical and non-technical partners
- 10-15 years of relevant work experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cloud-based services, distributed systems or microservices
- Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps practices
- Experience improving software performance, security, scalability or operational reliability
The impact you’ll make
As a Software Engineer Sr Lead, you will help the team turn complex needs into dependable technology solutions. Your leadership will improve how software is designed, built and supported while helping other engineers grow. Through strong technical direction and collaboration, you will contribute to solutions that support the future of financial technology.
What We Offer You
Bring your ideas. Build your future. At FIS, you'll find the support, resources and opportunities to develop your career while helping shape the future of financial technology.
We Offer
- Internal career growth opportunities
- Opportunities to innovate in fintech
- Inclusive and diverse team atmosphere
- Professional and personal development
- Resources to contribute to your community
Privacy Statement
FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.
EEOC Statement
FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here
For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer~ In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.
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How this job compares
Set against the 8,679 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Arkansas median$125–220K/yr49 salary ranges
- US median$30–45/hr494 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 60 open Software Engineering jobs in Arkansas and 8,679 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (6,663 postings).
- Education
- 2,292 of the 8,679 open Software Engineering jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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