Full-Time Senior Software Engineering Manager
Experian is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Software Engineering Manager. The career level for this job opening is Senior Manager and is accepting United States based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Financial Services Division (FSD) Engineering team is looking for an Engineering leader.
Reporting to the Director of Software Development, we are looking for a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead the development and operations of our real-time API platform.
You will manage a high-performing team of engineers responsible for designing, building, and scaling available, low-latency APIs that support millions of transactions per day.
What you'll do:
- Lead engineering teams building platform capabilities and solutions.
- Build data pipelines at scale for our batch clients and integrating with 3rd party providers for our real-time clients.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, encouraging an inclusive engineering culture. Manage hiring, performance management, and career development for your team
- Platform Ownership: Oversee the architecture, design, and implementation of real-time APIs with a focus on scalability, reliability, and latency. Create platform evolution, including modernization, observability, and CI/CD best practices. Champion Service level agreements, and incident response for platform services.
- Technical Strategy: Collaborate with Architects and Principal Engineers to define the long-term vision and roadmap for the API platform. Ensure the team follows software engineering best practices including testing, code reviews, and documentation. Guide the use of latest technologies that support real-time processing, event streaming, and performance optimization
- Collaboration: Work with Product Management, DevOps, and other engineering teams to align technical plans with our goals. Partner with security, compliance, and infrastructure teams to ensure platform meets regulatory and operational standards
- Delivery & Execution: Manage the delivery lifecycle of major platform plans. Track important performance metrics (availability, latency, throughput) and ensure continuous improvement. Manage the delivery of insightful dashboards and data visualizations. Identify risks early and implement mitigation strategies
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years in engineering leadership roles
- Proven experience managing real-time, high-throughput API platforms in production environments
- Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and modern backend stacks (e.g., Node.js, Java, Go, or Python)
- Experience with API gateways, load balancing, caching, and observability tools (Kibana, Grafana, Datadog, and Prometheus)
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka) and stream processing frameworks
- Experience developing ML Ops capabilities
- Data Science & ML experience
- DevOps Knowledge: Docker and Kubernetes