Principal Front End Developer

Job Description:

The Role

Fidelity Institutional Technology is looking for a Principal Front End Developer as a member of our team. While working to deliver business capabilities across a globally distributed team of IT professionals, the team continually strives to advance engineering excellence, technology innovation and agile practices. Must be a self-starter, able to work well with others, and communicate software changes to business partners, system analysts, QA engineers, etc.
 

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
• Solid foundation in Computer Science, with competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Experience with the following technologies (or similar):
• 10+ years of development experience with strong working knowledge of Angular TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, HTML5 and CSS3
• Strong experience with web services (JSON, XML, REST, SOAP, etc.)
• Continuous Integration - Jenkins / Stash / Git
• Unit Testing – JUnit / Jasmine
• Application Framework – Angular 2+ / Spring
• Knowledge of mock frameworks and service virtualization
• Perform troubleshooting and triaging in Assist in production and nonproduction environment
• Standout colleague, self-starter, collaborative, innovative and eager to learn every day.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• 1-2 years of experience in Agile development
• Experience with Jira
• Cloud Computing a plus
   

The Purpose of Your Role

This role will focus on the design and development of Fidelity Institutional products and services platform. The candidate will work with project managers, systems analysts, offshore resources, tech leads, quality assurance, and architects to build solutions that meet critical business needs. You should possess problem solving skills and be able to translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
 

The Skills You Bring

• Initiative and self-motivation
• Formal project life cycle methodology experience – waterfall and agile
• Organizational and presentation skills
• Willingness to explore and learn new technologies
• Understanding of building net new UI’s as well as integrating with other applications and services
• Help maintain code quality, security, organization, and automation
   

The Value You Deliver

• Design and implementation of software solutions that meet requirements and are aligned to the project/program strategic direction
• Adhere to engineering best practices and participate in design and code reviews
• Develop and maintain partnerships across the organization
• Working as part of a team in a collaborative environment to deliver an exceptional experience for our clients
   

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

Fidelity Institutional Technology enables business partners to win in their respective marketplaces by designing, building and maintaining technology platforms and products. As a Software Engineer your efforts will support this through delivering technology solutions that align with our goals. The build and design of software solutions that are flexible to meet the needs in the rapidly changing landscape that we compete in, and provide the best customer experience for our clients.

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Fidelity’s working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).