Company Summary

First American (India) is a GCC (Global Capability Center) of the First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies. FAI is a proud member of the FORTUNE 500 companies and has been amongst the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eight consecutive years. First American Financial Corporation provides comprehensive title insurance, closing/settlement, property data and technology solutions. First American (India) creates quality solutions for its customers by combining software, back office, and knowledge processing operations to fulfill First American's business requirements. Our priorities are our employees, customers, and shareholders - in that order. First American (India) has been ranked amongst India's Best Companies To Work For™ 2023: Listed amongst the Top 100 by Great Place To Work® India, FAI is also certified Best Workplaces for Women and Workplace with Inclusive Practices. Software Services helps build First American's product suite that encompasses the best in class Title Insurance, Settlement and Mortgage solutions platforms. Leverages technology product stack across Microsoft platform predominantly to develop, enhance and maintain the best in class applications. The R & D division delivers solutions for the title insurance industry leveraging the best of NLP, AI and ML.

Job Summary

•            Technical Leadership: Provide vision and technical leadership to guide a team of engineers in designing, delivering, and supporting a robust set of APIs and back-end services.  You will use the necessary architectural principles and implement modern,  world-class, secure engineering practices that are scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant. At times, you may need to roll up your sleeves to engage and remove obstacles. This also includes work breakdown, prioritization, and backlog management.

•            Collaborate/Partner:  Collaborate with product management, business development teams, and other cross-functional teams and leaders to iteratively design, develop, and validate outcome-driven technology solutions. You will enable the successful adoption of solutions delivered by the team and contribute to organization-wide initiatives.

•            People Leadership & Development: Our people are our greatest asset,  and you will mentor, coach, train, and support your team and others in their careers and personal growth.

•            Quality & Security Focused: Drive the implementation of functionally appropriate and technically sound solutions that meet all quality & security standards.

•            Continuous Improvement: Lead the team in achieving ambitious goals, providing regular feedback, and driving continuous improvement.

What You’ll Bring:

•            3-5 years managing cross-functional engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.

•            6+ years of developing software solutions / products (Full software development lifecycle).

•            Proven track record of delivering fit-for-purpose , technical solutions balancing complexity, performance, and maintainability.

•            Leadership skills to mobilize and motivate a high-functioning engineering team.

•            Passion, perspective, and empathy for unblocking software engineering teams working to achieve their goals.

•            A balanced approach between Software Engineering principles and modern Infrastructure Operations.

•            Ability to architect and design robust, high-scale systems and challenge engineers to think bigger and more generically in developing solutions. Ability to mentor software engineers to  maintain architectural vision and software quality.

•            Knowledge of software engineering practices for the entire software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

•            Demonstrated expertise in building large-scale, back-end services and APIs using modern architectures (Macro / Mini / Micro Services) and coding languages.

•            Experience mentoring engineers at various levels and supporting their career growth.

•            An outcome-oriented approach using metrics and data to understand development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, test coverage, etc.) to inform areas for continuous improvement.

•            Effective verbal and written communication skills, with strong relationship, collaboration, and organization skills.

Ideally, you will also have experience with:

•            C# (.NET Core, .NET Framework), TypeScript / Node.js or Golang.

•            Containerized development (Docker).

•            Kubernetes.

•            Relational (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB) databases.

•            Automated software testing (unit, integration, contract).

•            Infrastructure automation tooling such as Terraform and Ansible.

•            AWS Cloud Services: API Gateway, EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, ECR, EC2 Container Service, S3, Elastic File System, Lambda, RDS, Application Load Balancer, Step functions, SQS, Kinesis, SNS, EventHub, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Transit gateways.

•            Working within a highly regulated industry such as Financial Services or Healthcare.

This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.

FAI is committed to create an environment that respects, supports and inspires all individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation and age. At FAI, we celebrate diversity and believe that an inclusive workforce benefits employees, the organization and our community. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information about our company and dedication to putting People First, check out https://firstam.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/faicareers.