Director, Software Engineering (Electronic Trading)

Fidelity Investments•Jersey City, NJ

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Team Fidelity Wealth’s Trade Management Engineering group is responsible for building world-class electronic trading solutions for Fidelity’s Capital Markets division. We are a high-performing, fast-paced technology team working with cutting-edge tools to deliver low-latency, high-throughput trading platforms. Our work spans across internal and external teams to build seamless, end-to-end electronic trading workflows. The Role We are seeking a highly experienced software engineer to lead the design and development of next-generation trading systems. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building scalable, resilient, and high-performance trading infrastructure. You’ll collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and drive innovation in a mission-critical environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent.
15+ years of hands-on software design and development experience in the electronic trading domain.
5+ years of technical leadership, managing a team, and mentoring software developers
Experience in building algorithmic trading systems for equities and options
Experience with equities and options market data
Expertise in C/C++, Python, and Linux.
Deep experience with low latency messaging systems (e.g., 29West/Ultra-Messaging, Kafka).
Proficiency in KDB+ or other time-series databases.
Strong background in building scalable, distributed, asynchronous, and event-driven applications.
Advanced knowledge of low latency design patterns and performance optimization techniques.
Experience in Capital Markets or Brokerage systems, especially order management.
Solid understanding of the FIX protocol and FIX engines.
Experienced with using GenAI developer assist tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot).
Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, and uDeploy.
Experience with deploying applications and services in AWS

Nice To Haves

Series 57 license preferred

Responsibilities

Architect and develop distributed, event-driven electronic trading systems optimized for low latency and high throughput.
Design and implement complex algorithmic trading systems for equities and options.
Collaborate with internal and external teams to deliver robust and resilient systems.
Lead performance tuning and optimization efforts across the platform.
Lead and mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
Support production and non-production environments, including off hours or weekend support as needed.