Autonomous Banking Systems Engineer

FIS; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 179,470 - 305,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Fintech impact

Learning opportunities

Inclusive environment

Community giving

Job summary

FIS is building an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 institutions. The Forward Deployed Engineer embeds directly within strategic bank clients, turning modernization ambitions into production software at scale.

Operate at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and client relationships to ship code, design integrations, and earn trust with bank engineering leadership while delivering enterprise-ready solutions with startup autonomy.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a technical, customer-facing role.
• Experience shipping robust, scalable infrastructure in Go or similar systems languages (Rust, Java).
• Deep experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and multi-region databases.
• Familiarity with AI capabilities and agent-driven development patterns in fintech.

Responsibilities

• Embed with bank teams to translate needs into technical requirements.
• Design future-state bank architecture to unlock accelerated innovation.
• Build relationships with bank leadership as a trusted technical partner.
• Develop proofs of concept and end-to-end bank use cases.

Skills

Go / Rust / Java experience

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure (AWS / GCP / AZ)

Data engineering

AI-native engineering awareness

5+ years customer-facing role

Fintech / banking domain knowledge

High agency / ownership

Kafka

Kubernetes/OpenShift

AWS

GCP

Azure

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes/OpenShift

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

FIS is building an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 institutions. The Forward Deployed Engineer embeds directly within strategic bank clients, turning modernization ambitions into production software at scale.

Operate at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and client relationships to ship code, design integrations, and earn trust with bank engineering leadership while delivering enterprise-ready solutions with startup autonomy.