Principal Blockchain Engineer (DeFi Trading)
About The Position
The Role As a Principal Blockchain Engineer on the DeFi Yield Gen Platform team, you’ll get the opportunity to develop your skills and collaborate with engineers across Fidelity in a fun and dynamic environment. You will work closely with technical leaders and Architects to build a secure crypto yield generation platform utilizing modern software development practices. As a senior member of the team, you will mentor engineers on the best practices for Software development. The Team Fidelity Digital Assets℠, a Fidelity Investments Company, is developing a full-service enterprise-grade platform for storing, trading, and servicing digital assets, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Fidelity Digital Assets℠ embraces an entrepreneurial culture and startup mindset while serving as one of the most innovative business units within Fidelity Investments. Our global, diverse team of hundreds of forward-thinking professionals lead with agility and creativity to build solutions that bridge the gap between traditional institutional investors and their exposure to digital assets. The firm’s tenure and experience across multiple business lines present our employees with unprecedented access to knowledge, technology, and resources that help our team reshape the future of finance. Within Fidelity Digital Assets℠, the DeFi Yield Gen Team is responsible for the frontend, backend services and APIs that support DeFi Yield Generation Platform.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
- 8+ years' of progressive experience in software engineering using programming languages like RUST
- Hands-on e xperience with L1 & L2 blockchains such as Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum
- Hands-on e xperience building high ly performan t and low latency applications
- Proficient in databases and SQL
- An understanding of microservice architecture
- Ability to build reliable software that can withstand unreliable environments
- Experience building u nit and integration tes ts
- Experience building and deploying applications using continuous integration pipelines and automated deployment tools such as Jenkins
- Possess critical thinking skills to build end-to-end solutions
- Passionate and committed to learning new things and developing with the latest technologies and frameworks
- Work well in both a small agile team and independently, having a strong user focus
- Strong analytical and communication skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks at any given time
- Strong organization skills and attention to details
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with protocols such as Aave , Uniswap is a plus
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms and containerization technologies such as Docker is a plus
- Experience with asynchronous workers and resilient messaging services such as SNS and SQS is a plus
Responsibilities
- Mentor engineers on the best practices for Software development
- Participate in engineering practices such as code and design reviews, environment strategy, and build and deployment pipelines
Benefits
- We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home.
- These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
