Senior Engineering Manager (Backend & Platform)

Fiserv•Sunnyvale, CA

6d•$160,000 - $240,000•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

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