Senior Engineering Manager, Backend & Platform

Fiserv

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Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CAAlpharetta, GA
Salary
$160,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $188k
This role $200k
$135k most similar roles pay here $251k

This role pays more than 53% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$225,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $200k versus about $188k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Fiserv

Fiserv is a global leader in financial services technology, providing core banking platforms, payment processing, digital banking, and merchant acquiring solutions to financial institutions and businesses. Industry: Financial Technology & Payments

Fiserv currently has 87 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $115,000–$192,000 across 56 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineering Manager, Backend & Platform

As a Senior Engineering Manager (Backend & Platform), you will lead, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams across multiple Scrum squads to deliver core, high-volume enterprise backend systems. You will drive technical strategy for high-throughput Java microservices, cloud-native systems, and event-driven architectures while managing software delivery in partnership with product leadership. Your daily work involves establishing operational excellence, governing non-functional requirements, and overseeing technology modernization for both relational and NoSQL databases. The role requires expertise in the Java ecosystem, Spring Boot, RESTful API design, and distributed message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ. You will build resilient, low-latency transactional platforms using tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines across AWS, GCP, or Azure environments. This position solves critical challenges in processing financial transactions at scale within the merchant and point-of-sale platform domain.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in California?

Median $290250 from 64 postings across 19 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Tech Leads and software engineers across multiple Scrum teams.
  • Lead engineering execution and software delivery by aligning roadmaps and managing cross-team dependencies with product leadership.
  • Drive technical strategy and architectural execution for high-throughput Java microservices and cloud-native systems.
  • Establish operational excellence standards, including non-functional requirements and observability protocols to ensure platform reliability.
  • Direct technology modernization roadmaps, API contract standards, and data architecture strategies across relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Oversee the development of resilient, low-latency transactional platforms capable of processing high volumes of financial transactions.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Progressive software engineering experience.
  • 3+ years of direct people management experience leading software engineering teams.
  • Mastery of the Java ecosystem, including Spring Boot, microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
  • 3+ years of experience with relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis) databases.
  • Experience building cloud-native applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and automated CI/CD pipelines on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of JVM performance profiling, memory management, and scaling high-concurrency, low-latency systems.

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