Principal Software Engineer

Job Description:

In this role on the Fixed Income Shared Services team, you will produce high-quality, testable code for trading, portfolio and research platform and efficiently deploy them onto AWS. We advocate for leadership at all levels and this role is an excellent fit for those who demonstrate leadership and have a continuous technology progressive mentality. We want engineers who are brave to break things, who step up and take lead /ownership of their projects, and those that thrive by sharing knowledge. In addition, the succesful candidate will liaise closely with our offshore development team and ensure close alignment with their parallel development activities.

The Expertise You Have

· 10+ years’ experience as a full stack software engineer, delivering software using agile development practices.

· Exposure to coding in more than one programming language. Our full stack engineers work across a range of client, middle tier, messaging, caching, and database technologies including Java, Springboot, JavaScript, SQL and PL/SQL

· Web Service design and development experience along with PL/SQL development

· Ability to produce clear and concise systems specifications documents and support documentation.

· Great communication skills, Fast learner, and an excellent teammate.

· Exposure to Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices

· Exposure to test automation frameworks that support all types of testing (unit, component, integration, system etc.) executed through CI/CD pipelines.

· Bachelor's degree (or above) in either Engineering or Computer Science related field

The Skills You Bring

· Deep knowledge of middleware Java stack, messaging technologies, containerization, web containers and test automation.

· Awareness of event-based systems, functional programming, emerging technologies, and messaging frameworks such as Kafka and EMS.

· Demonstrate a test-driven approach to developing software and can build or contribute to automated testing frameworks that can detect any anomalies in functionality, performance, and integration.

· Experiences in some of the following technologies continuous integration/delivery tools such as GIT, Cloudbees Jenkins and/or AWS deployments.

· Experience building enterprise cloud enabled distributed systems.

· Document design options and decisions, and present these in an organized manner to technical as well as non-technical audiences.

· Strong contributor with a collaborative work style in building, crafting, and reviewing code.

The Team

Fidelity’s Fixed Income Division manages over $2 trillion and continues to see strong inflows into our funds. To support this growth and drive scale, we are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to be part of a growing team that supports our portfolio management and trading products.In our Fixed Income Technology organization, we are committed to empowering our investment professionals with the very best tools and technologies to deliver world class investment performance to our customers. Our technology experts work across a broad array of investment processes supporting many different types of securities and investment objectives. Through outstanding business and technology partnership, we can offer great solutions to help our customers meet their financial objectives.

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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.