Principal Full Stack Engineer (Angular, Java, Azure)

About the role

The Health Care Technology Group supports the recordkeeping and administration of health benefits for Fidelity’s corporate clients, employees, and retirees. We build and maintain highly scalable, resilient, and secure systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of modular, reusable Angular front-end components, enabling cross-product standardization and rapid UI delivery.
• Architect, design, and build scalable, secure microservices using Java, Spring Boot, multithreading, SQL, and Azure, with a strong focus on performance and maintainability.
• Champion cloud-native architectural patterns, including micro-frontends, shared libraries, event-driven integrations, and Kubernetes-based deployments (AKS).
• Model and promote an AI-first engineering culture, including the use of AI developer-assist tools, code-generation accelerators, and intelligent automation.
• Collaborate with product, UX, and engineering peers to translate functional needs into robust technical solutions.
• Drive adoption of modern CI/CD pipelines, DevOps best practices for reliable, automated delivery.
• Monitor and track engineering metrics and reporting, including code quality, API performance, cloud efficiency, operational health, and delivery KPIs.

Requirements

• 10–15 years of hands-on full stack development experience delivering high-quality, scalable, enterprise-grade solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, with strong grounding in systems design, algorithms, and engineering fundamentals.
• Proven ability to lead architecture and design decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and guide teams toward modern, maintainable solutions.
• Deep expertise in:
• Angular and modern front-end architectures
• Cloud-native engineering with Azure, especially Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Databases such as PostgreSQL and Aerospike
• Demonstrated experience with AI technologies, developer-assist tooling, and automation frameworks to improve speed, quality, and developer experience
• Advanced command of Java 8 and enterprise frameworks, including: Functional programming (lambdas, streams, functional interfaces) Core Spring modules (IoC, MVC/REST, Batch) Spring Boot ecosystem OAuth2 and Spring Security
• Hands-on experience building cloud-ready applications leveraging Azure services, Kubernetes, containerization, and modern build/deploy pipelines
• Experience establishing engineering best practices, architectural guidelines, and modernization strategies
• Prior success leading cross-team initiatives and mentoring engineers at multiple levels

Qualifications

• You thrive in team-based, collaborative environments and enjoy solving complex, ambiguous problems.
• You communicate clearly and effectively with engineers, product partners, and leadership.
• You provide strong technical leadership and are energized by coaching and mentoring other developers.
• You bring curiosity, initiative, and a strong sense of ownership to your work.
• You actively contribute perspectives, challenge assumptions constructively, and help chart the technical direction for teams.

Skills

• You bring curiosity, initiative, and a strong sense of ownership to your work.
• You actively contribute perspectives, challenge assumptions constructively, and help chart the technical direction for teams.

Benefits

Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Pay

Details on pay are confidential and will not be disclosed.

Schedule

Details on schedule are confidential and will not be disclosed.

Skills

• You bring curiosity, initiative, and a strong sense of ownership to your work.
• You actively contribute perspectives, challenge assumptions constructively, and help chart the technical direction for teams.

Value Delivered

• Leading independent and collaborative research into new technologies, tools, and patterns, and partnering with Architecture to recommend enhancements for future releases.
• Contributing to a culture of engineering excellence through active participation in peer reviews, design sessions, and hands-on coding.
• Translating business requirements into high-quality design specifications, ensuring solutions meet standards for performance, security, usability, reliability, and scalability.
• Acting as a senior technical influencer who drives cloud maturity, platform modernization, and adoption of intelligent tooling across teams.

Fidelity's Onsite Working Model

Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

Certifications

Category: Information Technology