Principal Software Engineer

Job Description:

The Health Care Technology Group (HCG) supports the recordkeeping and administration of health benefits (medical, dental and vision plans) as well as the Health Savings and Reimbursement Account plans on behalf of Fidelity’s corporate clients, their employees and retirees. The technology associates on the HCG Platform team interact with business partners as well as systems partners who have responsibility for client-facing channels such as NetBenefits®. The development teams are located across USA and India. Team size is 150+ resources across IT and Product organized into highly motivated team who develop and deliver using Agile Methodology.

The Health Care Technology Group (HCG) Team is looking to fill an interesting and challenging position on its development team. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be a contributing member on an Agile team supporting the technical leadership and center of excellence within the HCG business. This includes:

• Providing mentoring to the HCG team of developers and tech leads with specific emphasis on sound fundamental development methodology.
• Providing leadership on project development policies, procedures, standards and strategies.
• Participating in the HCG team’s effort to improve the efficiency and quality of the entire development process.

The Expertise You Have

• 10-12 years of development experience
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Solid understanding of REST concepts and developing REST API’s using Spring boot with Tomcat
• Solid understanding of Java 8 capabilities, lambda, streams and functional interfaces,
• Good knowledge of the fundamentals of Relational Database design and adept at preparing complex SQL queries in Oracle or PostgreSQL. 
• Solid understanding and working experience using spring modules, including IOC, MVC(Rest), BATCH, spring boot along with other core components like oauth2 and security
• Strong hands on expertise on cloud platforms (Azure preferably) and creating monitors and alerts of platform health, and on observability tools. 
• Prior experience working in supporting complex products and platforms in the healthcare or financial industry would be a plus.

The Skills You Bring

• You thrive in a team-oriented environment and tackling new challenges
• Your communication with peers and leaders is clear and effective
• Your ability to understand the business concepts and relate it to the technical solutions
• You are willing and excited to add your voice and opinion to the discussion
• Your open mindset to help the team grow and you a quick learner of new technologies

The Value You Deliver

• Leading the team in technical guidance and mentoring junior team members.
• Coordinating and leading research into new technologies independently, as part of a team and with the Architecture team to make judgement and recommendations for future releases.
• Contributing to a teamwork environment by actively participating in peer project reviews, code reviews, design reviews and being available to help others when needed.
• Work collaboratively to continually improve processes to help us deliver high quality solutions at lower cost

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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.