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ACI Worldwide

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

ACI Worldwide

Sr. Engineering Manager leading cross-functional teams in building low-latency banking platform.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeNorcross • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AngularAnsibleAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsJavaKubernetesMicroservicesOpenShiftSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead and grow a cross-functional team spanning backend, frontend, DevOps/Platform engineering, and Quality Engineering
  • Own delivery for roadmap initiatives and platform modernization across the full SDLC: planning, design, implementation, reviews, testing, release, and production operations
  • Establish and communicate technical direction in partnership with Product Management and Architecture
  • Drive performance and latency engineering: define latency/throughput SLOs, performance budgets, regression testing, and capacity planning
  • Build operational readiness: observability, runbooks, safe rollouts, and rapid rollback practices
  • Lead the team’s cloud-native delivery model on Kubernetes
  • Own and evolve CI/CD and artifact practices using technologies such as Ansible, Nexus, and Kubernetes-native release workflows
  • Build a “quality-first” culture with an automated testing strategy
  • Lead delivery of AI-enabled initiatives in AI-accelerated SDLC and AI/ML solution delivery
  • Establish responsible AI usage practices and enforce safe prompting and data handling
  • Coach engineers, DevOps, and QE leads; build career plans, performance feedback loops, and hiring strategies.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years in software engineering building distributed systems
  • 4+ years leading teams (engineering + DevOps and/or QE leadership experience strongly preferred)
  • Proven experience building and operating low-latency, high-throughput systems in banking, payments, or other regulated transaction platforms
  • Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures (microservices, containerization, orchestration)
  • Java backend development (high-performance, concurrent, resilient services)
  • Angular (modern web UI, performance-minded frontend engineering)
  • Ansible (automation/configuration management)
  • Nexus (artifact repository and dependency management)
  • Familiarity with deployment and development on public and private cloud Azure, AWS, OpenShift
  • Demonstrated delivery of AI projects implemented in real environments (production or production-like)
  • Strong engineering excellence mindset: automated testing, security-by-design, observability, and disciplined release practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Opportunities for growth
  • Career development
  • Competitive compensation and benefits package
  • Innovative and collaborative work environment

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Hard Skills & Tools
Distributed SystemsLow-Latency SystemsHigh-Throughput SystemsAutomated TestingSecurity-By-Design
Soft Skills
Team LeadershipCoachingPerformance Feedback