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# Production Support Engineer at FIS® Amount™

- **Company:** FIS® Amount™
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Posted:** 2026-05-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/amount/jobs/5139732007

## Job description

[FIS® Amount™](https://www.fisglobal.com/products/fis-amount?loc=specs) provides a unified digital origination and decisioning platform that helps financial institutions meet the moment. Designed to scale with banks and credit unions at any stage of their digital journey, FIS® Amount™ delivers a seamless, digital-first experience—streamlining everything from loan origination to deposit account opening. With built-in fraud orchestration and risk management, FIS® Amount™ enables financial institutions to control risk across any product while optimizing performance and enhancing security. Our flexible, modular platform is backed by enterprise-grade infrastructure and compliance, allowing institutions to launch new offerings in months, not years. Learn more at [www.fisglobal.com](https://www.fisglobal.com/products/fis-amount?loc=specs).

We are FIS. Our technology powers the world’s economy and our teams bring innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities. If you’re ready to start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we’d like to know: Are you FIS?

## A DAY IN THE LIFE:

The Production Support Engineering team plays a key role at FIS® Amount™ by ensuring production issues are managed efficiently and effectively. You will manage high-priority issues to resolution following industry best practices. You’ll troubleshoot, fix, and apply workarounds to resolve technical issues across multiple platforms.  Each day, you’ll interact with every aspect of our organization to find the best solution for our partner.  Management of ticket queues, monitoring for issues and post-release validation are also a large part of this role, all while meeting our partners’ SLA requirements.

Team: This role interacts with nearly every group within the organization, including engineering, product, QA, customer success and others.

Salary: $73,000-$80,000 base salary

Similar job titles: Production Support, Production Support Analyst, Incident Manager, Incident Coordinator, IT Major Incident Manager, Application Support Engineer, Support Engineer

WHAT WE’LL TRUST YOU TO DELIVER:

- Technical ability to deep dive into issues by querying tables, analyzing data and problem-solving
- Prioritization and triage of incoming requests/issues
- Drive incident resolution and lead conversations with cross-functional groups.   Ask the right questions to help determine impact/priority and the correct route for resolution.  Oversee a technical bridge, if required.
- Management of all incidents through the incident management lifecycle
- Documentation of all relevant events, getting status reports while driving decision-making and resolution
- Ensure stakeholders are updated according to predefined service level agreements
- Completion and ownership of the postmortem with appropriate root cause analysis performed
- Improvement suggestions to capture preventative measures that will avoid recurrences of incidents
- Investigate patterns that indicate larger overall issues, even if we don’t have the solution.
- Compilation of metrics on a weekly and monthly basis.  Maintain dashboards for service incidents and ad hoc reporting as requested
- Play an active role during critical incidents which may occur outside of normal business hours.  Nights, weekends, and holidays on an on-call rotation basis is a must
- Creation of runbooks or standard operating procedures (SOP) so we can all learn from each other and add to our knowledge base

WHAT YOU LIKELY BRING TO THE TABLE:

- Technical and/or engineering background, ideally with experience writing SQL queries
- Experience working with development teams in a fast-paced environment
- Basic knowledge or interest of any programming language such as Java, Python or Ruby
- 2 years of experience coordinating and executing major incidents, with demonstrated capacity to lead under pressure
- Previously collaborated with a wide spectrum of internal and external stakeholders
- Worked in an organization with a complex business environment
- Leadership skills with the ability to make quick decisions
- Familiar with ITSM/ITIL concepts
- You thrive being a self-starter, who can lead others during stressful situations
- Familiar with tools such as Confluence, Jira, and on-call management software such as PagerDuty and experience with error monitoring software (Sentry, Kibana)

## NOTE:

- Most positions are hybrid (3 days onsite) in our FIS Office locations in Chicago (Illinois), Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Atlanta (Georgia) and Jacksonville (Florida).
- Current and future sponsorship not available for this position

Privacy Statement

- FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the [Online Privacy Notice](http://www.fisglobal.com/privacy).

EEOC Statement

- FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is [available here](https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf) supplement document [available here](http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf)
- For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

- Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

## About FIS® Amount™

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: FIS® Amount™ provides an AI-powered, unified digital origination and decisioning platform that allows banks, credit unions, and lenders to streamline account opening and lending for deposits, cards, and loans.
- **Entity Type**: Subsidiary of FIS (NYSE: FIS); originally a private fintech startup acquired by FIS in September 2025
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founded**: 2019 (spun out of Avant in 2020)
- **Founders**: Adam Hughes (CEO at time of acquisition)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial technology (Fintech) – digital banking origination and decisioning
- **Target customers**: B2B – banks, credit unions, and financial institutions of all sizes (including community banks and large enterprises)
- **Mission/Purpose**: To help financial institutions meet the moment with a seamless, digital-first experience that simplifies account opening, lending, and card issuance while reducing fraud and ensuring compliance.

## Products & Services
- **[FIS® Amount™ Platform](https://fisglobal.com)**: Cloud-native, unified SaaS platform with embedded AI that enables digital account opening, lending origination, credit card issuance, deposit account setup, and real-time decisioning for consumers and small businesses. The platform also includes fraud prevention, compliance checks, and integration with core banking systems.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed post-acquisition; Amount previously reached a $1 billion valuation (unicorn status) before being acquired by FIS. FIS has a market cap of approximately $16–18 billion (as of 2025/2026).
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Total funding raised: $313 million (historical)
  - Accounts processed: Over 150 million new account applications
  - Headcount: ~350 employees (July 2026) [jobera.com](https://jobera.com/employer/amount/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Prior backers include Avant (spin-off), and other institutional investors; now fully owned by FIS, a Fortune 500 company.
- **Growth Signals**: Acquisition by FIS in September 2025 signals strong validation and access to FIS’s global client base of 15,000+ financial institutions. Continued hiring for senior AI engineering and sales roles indicates product expansion and market push.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform**: Covers deposits, lending, and cards in one cloud-native solution, reducing integration complexity for banks.
- **Embedded AI**: AI-driven decisioning and fraud detection improve speed and accuracy.
- **Proven scale**: Processed 150+ million applications; trusted by a wide range of financial institutions.
- **FIS ecosystem**: Deep integration with FIS’s core banking, digital, and card systems provides a comprehensive solution that competitors may lack.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion through FIS distribution**: Leverage FIS’s global network and brand to cross-sell the Amount platform to existing FIS clients.
- **AI and automation**: Continue enhancing AI capabilities for underwriting, fraud prevention, and customer experience.
- **Modernization**: Replace legacy origination systems with a modern, modular, cloud-native stack.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & stability**: Join a fast-growing fintech product that now has the resources and stability of FIS, a Fortune 500 company, while maintaining its own brand and agile engineering culture.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: The company is primarily onsite in Chicago but offers some remote roles, especially for sales and engineering (e.g., Senior AI Software Engineer – remote US).
- **Roles available**: Openings in engineering (AI, automation, production support) and sales (enterprise, mid-market) – strong focus on AI and product development.
- **Perks/Engineering culture**: Opportunity to work on high-scale financial systems, modern tech stack (cloud, AI), and solving complex regulatory and fraud challenges.

## Sources
1. [FIS Investor Relations – Acquisition Announcement](https://www.investor.fisglobal.com/news-releases/news-release-details/fis-acquires-amount-deliver-unified-digital-account-origination)
2. [BusinessWire – FIS Acquires Amount](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250924482005/en/FIS-Acquires-Amount-to-Deliver-Unified-Digital-Account-Origination-Empowering-Financial-Institutions-to-Accelerate-Growth-and-Simplify-Banking)
3. [Finovate – FIS Acquires Digital Banking and Lending Fintech Amount](https://finovate.com/fis-acquires-digital-banking-and-lending-fintech-amount/)
4. [Greenhouse – FIS Amount Careers](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/amount)
5. [Jobera – Amount Careers (July 2026)](https://jobera.com/employer/amount/)

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