Financial infrastructure platform serving banks, businesses, and developers globally
FIS is a Fortune 500 financial-technology company operating a sprawling stack spanning legacy (HP NonStop, COBOL) and modern (Kafka, Kubernetes, Python, Spring Boot) systems. The hiring velocity is accelerating across 855 active roles — with engineering dominating (276 roles) alongside a meaningful support footprint (151 roles) — while the pain-point list reflects the core operational tension: modernizing monolithic applications while maintaining 24x7 incident management and SOX compliance.
Notable leadership hires: C++ Technical Lead, Account Director, Lead Engineer, Commercialization Strategy Director, Director of Engineering
FIS provides financial technology infrastructure to banks, financial institutions, businesses, and developers worldwide. The company operates from Jacksonville, Florida as a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 member. Its core products include a post-trading platform (FIS PTP) and a broad suite of payment, banking, and investment solutions. The technical footprint spans decades of installed systems (HP NonStop, COBOL, SQL) alongside cloud-native components (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka), reflecting a large installed base requiring continuous modernization while managing strict regulatory and availability requirements.
FIS runs HP NonStop, COBOL, SQL, Oracle, and Java across legacy systems, alongside modern cloud (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka, Python, Spring Boot, .NET). The company is adopting Scaled Agile Framework, Python, R, and Power Platform while replacing SD-WAN and Bitbucket.
Active projects include post-trading platform roadmap and strategic enhancements, disaster recovery plans, system upgrades, process automation, monitoring and alerting solutions, and growth strategy development across their financial infrastructure product suite.
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