Embedded Banking Platform Engineer

FIS; New Zealand; Hybrid; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Personal and professional learning

Inclusive, diverse work environment

Resources to give back to your local社区

Job summary

FIS Forward Deployed Engineer embeds directly within strategic bank clients as a hands-on engineer - translating modernization ambitions into production software at Tier-1 scale and building lasting trust with bank engineering leadership.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and client relationship, offering startup autonomy within the scale of FIS, and opportunities to shape how leading banks adopt next-generation core banking infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Shipping robust, scalable infrastructure in Go or similar systems languages
• Deep experience with Kafka, concurrency patterns, event-driven architectures, and multi-region databases
• Strong background in AWS, GCP, or Azure. SRE principles, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Experience building data-intensive systems and distributed data pipelines
• Naturally integrates AI into workflow; stays current on LLM capabilities and agentic development patterns
• 4+ years in a technical, customer-facing role
• Preference for knowledge of financial transaction flows, core banking systems, or banking technology
• Thrives in ambiguity; writes the playbook when none exists
• Owns outcomes, not just tasks. When something breaks before go-live, fixes it - and builds the system so it doesn’t break again
• Switches naturally between writing code, designing architecture, and leading a workshop

Responsibilities

• Embed and discover with bank architecture, infrastructure, and product teams to understand landscape and modernization goals
• Architect future-state bank architecture to unlock accelerated innovation
• Build trusted technical partnership with bank leadership
• Translate deployment patterns into product requirements and platform improvements
• Develop proofs of concept and end-to-end bank use cases (digital twins, checking accounts, wallets)
• Integrate upstream and downstream systems with durable production-grade patterns
• Build and maintain high-performance data pipelines
• Test and validate scale, resilience, and failover behavior
• Presales support with technical demos, architecture workshops, and platform education
• Travel to client sites 25-50% as needed

Skills

Go

Rust

Java

Kafka

AWS

GCP

Azure

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

AI/NLP

Customer facing

Tools

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Concourse/Airflow

Job description

FIS Forward Deployed Engineer embeds directly within strategic bank clients as a hands-on engineer - translating modernization ambitions into production software at Tier-1 scale and building lasting trust with bank engineering leadership.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and client relationship, offering startup autonomy within the scale of FIS, and opportunities to shape how leading banks adopt next-generation core banking infrastructure.