Job Description:
Principal Software Engineer
The Fidelity Institutional Technology group at Fidelity Investments has an exceptional opportunity for a Software Engineer who is a self-starter, with Agile/Scrum based methodology experience working with modern web frameworks and tools including Angular, CSS3 and Spring Boot. You will be applying your strong development skills to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve FBT customer-facing software solutions and ensure we are building the right product the right way.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- A Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software engineering or equivalent work experience
- Experience with designing and building user experiences and webservice applications while incorporating test automation frameworks
- A solid foundation in computer science, with competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- 7+ years of development experience with strong working knowledge of .NET, C#, JavaScript, Java, HTML5 and CSS3
- Strong experience with ASP .NET
- Continuous Integration - Jenkins / Stash / Git
- SQL Server 2019 / T-SQL
- Experience with PDF rendering and editing tools – e.g. Adobe Acrobat, PDFTron
- Working knowledge of Angular, JavaScript, Java, HTML5, CSS3, XML, and UNIX
- Experience with web services (JSON, XML, REST, SOAP, etc.) and Spring Boot
- You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with high risks and high rewards
- Work as multi-stack engineer with knowledge in a breadth of development technologies and test automation frameworks (Java/J2EE, Junit, Cucumber, Selenium, Serenity, JavaScript/Angular)
- Passionate about full stack software development, developing robust software, writing testable and maintainable code
- You have a security first mindset, a practice of least privilege access, and a good understanding of various authentication and authorization techniques using B2B, C2B, etc. mechanism to safeguard account opening solutions and customer’s PII
- Financial software account opening experiences preferred
- In a perfect world, you have working experience with BDD, the ability to collaborate, and familiarity with relational databases and some scripting language, and knowledge of equities market and trading of stock, options, and mutual funds
- You understand technical designs at the application level, define strategies, and collaborate closely with fellow developers.
- You can describe problems and recommend solutions to project leaders
- You have great communication skills, are a team player, and have an aptitude for learning new technologies.
- Your analytical problem-solving skills
- Your ability to manage time and meet deadlines for concurrent projects/assignments in a fast-paced environment
- Obsessed with creating the best end-to-end customer experience
- Owns the outcome by taking personal accountability for delivering strong results
- Designing, developing, and implementing web applications in a dynamic financial services environment
- Defining and executing test strategies, scenarios with business-driven development approach.
- Contributing effectively at many different points in a project life cycle as an individual contributor
- Adhering to project timelines, addressing, and resolving technical issues
- Coordinating functional/technical group discussions with analysts and developers under moderate supervision
- Delivering on both projects and support tasks in a dynamic environment
- Developing concise and clear technical design documents based on analysis of business requirements
- Working and collaborating with new technologies to solve test challenges and process improvements
The Team
Our web applications are used by Registered Investment Advisors and Correspondents to deliver comprehensive brokerage solutions to our client's institutional customers, including account opening, reports and alerts, and risk management and compliance tools. We provide both development and production supports including incident troubleshooting.
Certifications:
Category:Information Technology
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products.
Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
