Principal Software Engineer
About The Position
Are you interested in serving the needs of millions of customers by building outstanding backend applications which help deliver experiences in financial planning, investing, and retirement? Our Savings and Lending team is looking for solution-based engineers with a passion for developing easy-to-use, customer focused and capabilities which power Fidelity’s web and mobile experience platforms. The team builds systems to engineer digital banking solutions that support Fidelity’s large scale digital presence. You will help us craft and develop re-usable Java applications that focus on customer experience needs and optimize quality and deployment practices. We work closely with our business, operations, and systems partners to enable new business capabilities, respond to regulatory changes, modernize technology solutions, and address the complex needs of our customers. You’ll chip in to the entire development lifecycle from concept to deployment as a member of an agile, multi-functional team. You will have the opportunity to share your technical knowledge to help strengthen our engineering community and further pursue your own learning of new technologies and skills. We're looking for software engineers that enjoy a reciprocal environment and have a passion for releasing high quality software through iterative software development practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of demonstrated experience building solutions that use Java 8+, Python 3+, Web application frameworks such as Spring Boot, and RESTful API development.
- Strong skills with AWS Toolsets, including but not limited to SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, Kinesis, and Cloudformation.
- Expertise in designing, building, and documenting customer facing RESTful APIs.
- Strong skills with Data Engineering and ETL processes, leveraging tools such as Spark, or AWS Glue.
- Strong skills with Container Technologies and Kubernetes.
- Demonstrable ability to create robust technical designs with a DevOps mindset incorporated.
- Demonstrable ability to dive into an existing complex set of applications and systems, understand them, and subsequently make vital changes to them.
- Demonstrable ability to read high-level business requirements and translate them into technical tasks.
- Strong skills with the full lifecycle of development, from analysis to installed into production.
- Strong skills with coordinating testing efforts across multiple teams.
- Proven experience to own the delivery of complex end-to-end solutions.
- Proven experience managing technical programs within a Scrum Agile SDLC environment.
- Able to communicate effectively to coordinate efforts, collaborate with other teams and simply explain the constituent parts of complex problems.
- Proven experience guiding fellow engineers and upskilling their capabilities.
- Ability to dive into complex environments and drive their own understanding of those systems.
Responsibilities
- Serve the needs of millions of customers by building outstanding backend applications which help deliver experiences in financial planning, investing, and retirement.
- Develop easy-to-use, customer focused capabilities which power Fidelity’s web and mobile experience platforms.
- Build systems to engineer digital banking solutions that support Fidelity’s large scale digital presence.
- Craft and develop re-usable Java applications that focus on customer experience needs and optimize quality and deployment practices.
- Work closely with business, operations, and systems partners to enable new business capabilities, respond to regulatory changes, modernize technology solutions, and address the complex needs of our customers.
- Contribute to the entire development lifecycle from concept to deployment as a member of an agile, multi-functional team.
- Share technical knowledge to help strengthen the engineering community and further pursue learning of new technologies and skills.
- Own the delivery of complex end-to-end solutions.
- Manage technical programs within a Scrum Agile SDLC environment.
- Communicate effectively to coordinate efforts, collaborate with other teams and explain the constituent parts of complex problems.
- Guide fellow engineers and upskill their capabilities.
- Dive into complex environments and drive own understanding of those systems.
- Create robust technical designs with a DevOps mindset incorporated, considering scalability, resiliency, robustness, maintainability, automation, and observability.
- Dive into an existing complex set of applications and systems, understand them, and subsequently make vital changes to them.
- Read high-level business requirements and translate them into technical tasks.
- Coordinate testing efforts across multiple teams.
Benefits
- Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
