Principal Software Engineer

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be a senior member, expected to contribute to the technical leadership and center of excellence within the Fidelity Health Benefits (FHB) group. This includes: 

• Providing mentoring to the FHB 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 FHB team’s effort to improve the productivity and quality of the entire development process. 
    

The Expertise You Have 

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field. 

• 10+ years of full stack development experience with architecting, designing, developing, and maintaining multi-tier applications. 

• Strong knowledge and development experience in a diverse set of distributed application development and middleware technologies such REST/SOAP Web Services, Java 11 capabilities, SQL, Test Driven Development, Spring modules including IOC, Batch, SpringBoot along with other core components like oauth2 and security. 

• Strong knowledge of SQL and Object Relational Mapping (Postgres Knowledge is a plus). 

• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, Angular, and AngularJS. 

• 3+ Years of demonstrated Technical Leadership Experience. 

• Exemplary collaboration skills working with product owners, business-analyst, software architects, software engineers and quality engineers. 

• Experience serving as a strong hands-on technical team member producing clean and tested code. 

• Experience mentoring junior staff and defining coding standards and standard methodologies. 

• Experience applying Software Engineering Architecture and Design Patterns (OO, Functional, REST). 

• Hands-on experience with API design & development. 

• Knowledge of software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, operations, continuous integration and continuous delivery. 

• Experience working with cloud computing strategies and architecture (Kubernetes, AWS fargate, Amazon EKS, etc). 

• Experience with data engineering, dimensional modeling, business intelligence preferred. 

The Skills You Bring  

• You thrive in a team-oriented environment and taking on new challenges. 

• Your communication with peers and leaders is clear and effective. 

• You help provide technical leadership and direction. 

• You are willing and excited to add your voice and opinion to the discussion. 

• You love to take initiative to solve a problem and get the job done. 
    

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. 

• Providing and taking leadership taking business requirements and translate them into detailed designs, consider the best strategy to ensure design meets performance, security, usability, and reliability and scalability requirements.