Principal API Engineer

Fidelity Investments • Boston, MA

246d • Hybrid

About The Position

Fidelity Labs is looking for a principal level engineer to help build out our API Platform. This project is still in early stages and has a lot of room for exciting greenfield development.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in software architecture, cloud services, microservices, and event-driven paradigms.
• Significant experience shipping features, debugging production incidents, and optimizing performance in event-driven distributed systems.
• Experience with logging and observability platforms like Datadog and Amazon Cloudwatch.
• Minimum of 7 years in software development, with a focus on platform engineering or API development.
• Experience with AWS cloud services such as ALB, Aurora, and S3, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience with identity management platforms like Auth0 is a bonus.

Nice To Haves

• TypeScript expertise: Strong instinct for writing correct and specific type annotations.
• Knowledge of features such as the distinction between classes, types, and interfaces.
• Proven ability to learn new programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Attention to detail: An eye for detailed code review, writing clean code, and thoroughly reading documentation.
• Leadership: A track record of mentoring junior engineers and explaining to them not only what best practices are, but why they exist.
• Identify gaps in the development process and collaborate with the team to fill them.
• Work with other teams within Fidelity, requiring experience with cross-team collaboration.
• Ship features and debug production incidents in event-driven distributed systems.
• Enhance existing documentation for fellow developers and external customers.
• Refine dry, abstract concepts into understandable content for non-technical audiences.
• Maintain curiosity about tools and abstractions, and continually improve processes.

Benefits

• Hybrid working model blending onsite and offsite work experiences.
• Onsite work is important for business strategy and culture.
• Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Industry: Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities