Principal Full Stack Engineer

About the role

The Systems Thinking Engineer will play a pivotal role in transforming Fidelity's Brokerage Authorization team towards a cloud-native architecture. They will work closely with the team to design, implement, and maintain high-performing, scalable, and resilient systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement full-stack customer-facing applications, focusing on performance, availability, and resilience.
• Guide the team through extensive production insights, operational automation, and real-time metrics.
• Drive 24x7 operational excellence by managing Tier 0 platforms and ensuring high availability and reliability of critical systems.
• Develop RESTful services using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Docker, and YAML, and optimize database performance through query tuning and indexing.
• Work with Cloud Databases to create and lead database objects, and optimize performance through performance metrics, logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Maintain scalability and resiliency in a complex environment, and ensure high availability and reliability of critical systems in a fast-paced environment.
• Triage, execute root cause analysis, and be decisive under pressure during incidents and outages.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in designing and implementing full stack end-to-end customer-facing applications.
• 7+ years of experience working in complex architectural designs and technology initiatives.
• 5+ years of experience working in agile development environments (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience handling Incident Management and Problem Management of Tier 0 platforms.
• Extensive knowledge of Java and Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on application development experience with Public Cloud environments: AWS – Lambda, EKS, S3, Dynamo DB, Kinesis.
• Deep understanding of modern authorization architectures, including RBAC, ReBAC, JWT-based authorization, and OAuth 2.0.
• Proven track record of architecting fine-grained access control frameworks, scalable entitlement models, and enterprise-grade authorization systems.
• Strong understanding of policy-based authorization patterns and distributed access management.
• Experience with OpenFGA or comparable ReBAC platforms is highly desirable.
• Proficient in working with Cloud Databases, creating and leading database objects like tables, views, indexes, Stored Procs, and optimizing database performance through query tuning, indexing, analyzing performance reports.
• Demonstrated expertise in Production support, including incident management, root cause analysis, real-time monitoring, and high availability and reliability of critical systems in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with DevOps CI/CD tools like Jenkins/ Jenkins Core.
• Strong understanding of performance metrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, testing, and tuning for highly scalable cloud applications.

Skills

• Java and Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
• Public Cloud environments: AWS – Lambda, EKS, S3, Dynamo DB, Kinesis.
• Modern authorization architectures, including RBAC, ReBAC, JWT-based authorization, and OAuth 2.0.
• Policy-based authorization patterns and distributed access management.
• OpenFGA or comparable ReBAC platforms.
• RESTful services using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Swagger, Docker, YAML, JSON.
• Cloud Databases, creating and leading database objects like tables, views, indexes, Stored Procs, and optimizing database performance through query tuning, indexing, analyzing performance reports.
• DevOps CI/CD tools like Jenkins/ Jenkins Core.
• Performance metrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, testing, and tuning for highly scalable cloud applications.

Benefits

Fidelity offers competitive compensation packages, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth and development. The company also provides a supportive and inclusive workplace culture where employees can thrive and contribute to their fullest potential.

Pay

Compensation is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Schedule

The role requires a full-time, onsite presence.