Principal Software Engineer/Developer

Fidelity Investments•Durham, NC

About The Position

Performs the full software development lifecycle process for quantitative research investment software applications. Supports personalized investment strategies at scale based on direct indexing separately managed accounts (SMAs). Architects and optimizes cloud-native solutions for scalability and performance by leveraging AWS services and distributed systems to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency. Leads technical innovation and modernization initiatives by advancing micro-services architectures, messaging technologies, containerization, and CI/CD practices to deliver secure, resilient, and maintainable software systems. Translates business requirements into technical solutions by working closely with IT and business stakeholders. Uses business knowledge to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing complex or multiple software applications and conducting studies of alternatives. Analyzes and recommends changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Technology Management, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) designing and developing Cloud-enabled REST applications using Java, Spring boot, Kafka, and AWS services.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Technology Management, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) designing and developing Cloud-enabled REST applications using Java, Spring boot, Kafka, and AWS services.
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) implementing distributed systems using microservices architecture according to business requirements, architecture standards, and Agile methodologies, using Java/J2EE technologies, Spring MVC, Spring Boot frameworks, JIRA, and Confluence.
DE participating in Agile ceremonies -- SCRUM, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming.
DE developing and orchestrating high performant application components using Kafka.
DE identifying and providing solutions for performance bottlenecks using Datadog.
DE analyzing, designing, developing, testing, and implementing client/server applications, using Java/J2EE, SQL, Spring, Apache Kafka, JavaScript, and Angular.
DE fine-tuning application performance in a Kubernetes cluster.
DE performing DevOps engineering -- Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) (using Jenkins and Nexus), version control (using Github and Bitbucket), and writing automated tests (using Cucumber) and AI assistant tool Github Copilot.
DE deploying Cloud native applications using Maven, Unix Shell Scripting, Docker, and Kubernetes.
DE modernizing solutions and creating Cloud-based, microservices, and message-oriented architectures for online, high-volume, transactional applications using AWS infrastructure services.
DE creating reusable frameworks for the expansion of infrastructure and product capabilities to implement financial applications, using AWS, Spring Cloud, Kafka, and Apache Spark.

Responsibilities

Participates in architecture design teams.
Defines and implements application-level architecture.
Develops applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division.
Recommends development testing tools and methodologies and reviews and validates test plans.
Responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables.
Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems.
Establishes full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms.
Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget.
Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects.
Plans and coordinates complex project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.
Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues.
Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives.
Advises senior management on technical strategy.
Mentors junior team members.
Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several divisional initiatives.
Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts.