Automation Testing Engineer

FICO; United States; Remote; USD 105,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a lead engineer on the Design System team, where you will shape the future of the centralized design system. This role involves building scalable, high-quality UI components and micro-frontends, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver modern user experiences. You'll have the chance to lead technical discussions, mentor engineers, and enhance developer tools. If you're passionate about innovation and making a meaningful impact in the frontend ecosystem, this opportunity is perfect for you. Embrace the chance to grow your career in a dynamic and inclusive environment that values your contributions.

Benefits

Inclusive culture

Professional development opportunities

Highly competitive compensation

Work/life balance

Employee resource groups

Social events

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of Angular and modern web technologies required.
• Experience in building and maintaining component libraries for design systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable Angular components for the FICO Design System.
• Lead development of features for FICO Platform using Angular and HTML.

Skills

Angular

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

State Management (NgRx or Redux)

Asynchronous Programming

Performance Optimization

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in Software Engineering

Tools

Git

Node.js

Bootstrap

Nx

GitHub Actions

Jest

Cypress

Playwright

Job description

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity
“This is a critical engineering role on the Design System team at FICO, where you’ll help shape the future of our centralized design system. Building on the strong foundation of our Angular-based component library, you’ll work on both core system components and real-world product features for FICO Platform. As a lead engineer, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams across Product Design, Architecture, Marketing, and Engineering to deliver scalable, high-quality UI building blocks and micro-frontends. This is a chance to make a meaningful impact on FICO’s frontend ecosystem—empowering teams to create modern, accessible, and consistent user experiences across the enterprise.” – Sr Director-Software Engineering

What You’ll Contribute

• Build and maintain robust, scalable Angular components aligned with the FICO Design System.
• Push the boundaries of user experience for our Platform users by helping to build out our modular, micro-frontend-based interfaces centered around an interactive canvas.
• Lead the development of pages and features for FICO Platform using Angular, HTML, CSS, and IRIS Angular components.
• Serve as a technical resource for teams implementing micro-frontends with IRIS, guiding best practices and ensuring quality.
• Collaborate closely with Product Design, Architecture, Engineering, Product Management, and Marketing teams to align components with business goals and design standards.
• Participate in IRIS office hours to provide hands-on support to developers and customers.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, ensuring consistent implementation of Angular best practices.
• Build tools and frameworks to enhance developer experience, including Nx generators and executors.
• Explore connecting micro-frontends to the backend using the Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) pattern with Node.js.
• Maintain and improve the performance and organization of the IRIS component library and frontend repository.
• Contribute to FICO’s growth-oriented engineering culture by leading technical discussions, conducting code reviews, and advocating for clean, maintainable code.

What We’re Seeking

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Deep knowledge of Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and modern web technologies, including state management (e.g. NgRx or Redux) and asynchronous programming.
• Ability to build, extend, and maintain component libraries for design systems in complex enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams, mentor developers, and present technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• A strong focus on empowering engineers with tools, patterns, and best practices for building micro-frontends and scalable UIs.
• Experience contributing to or leading the technical direction of large repositories, including organizational structure, performance optimizations, and version upgrades.
• Strong understanding of performance optimization techniques for web applications, including lazy loading, tree shaking, and efficient DOM manipulation.
• Stay updated on emerging frontend technologies, driving continuous improvements in the stack through research, experimentation, and community engagement with a focus on efficiency, performance, and scalability.
• Experience with Git and Git-based workflows, Nx, Node.js, Bootstrap, and modern build tools.
• Experience working with product designers, architects, and knowledge of accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG) is beneficial.
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Jest, and Cypress or Playwright is nice to have.
• Preferred experience with HTML Canvas and GoJS for building interactive, accessible visualizations and diagramming tools.
• Understanding of modern CSS, including Flexbox, Grid, CSS animations, and pre-processors like SCSS is advantageous.

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.
• The targeted base pay range for this role is: $105,000 to $165,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.

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Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics. You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

• Credit Scoring — FICO Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.

• Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career. Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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