Principal Full Stack Engineer

Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

About the Team

We at Fidelity Trade Management Engineering (TME) group are responsible for building and maintaining Fidelity’s brokerage platform order management and trade processing system. We are a high functioning, fast paced technology group that works on cutting edge technologies to deliver low latency and high throughput trading solutions. We want to work with an engineer who is versatile, always eager to take on new problems and share solutions as we push the technology forward. Working independently as well as collaboratively, it is important for this person to have a positive approach to leadership, teamwork, and a drive to deliver groundbreaking solutions every day.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent, with a preference for advanced study
• Minimum 8 years of software design, development and performance testing experience
• Deep hands-on experience in Software Performance Engineering
• Demonstrated skill in Java, Spring, Python, Linux
• Hands-on experience using tools like jMeter to build performance harness for software benchmarking
• Willingness to guide and mentor junior team members on solid engineering practices
• Previous exposure to trading systems or brokerage technology
• Knowledge of the FIX protocol is a plus
• Familiarity with event driven and service-oriented processing
• Demonstrated work experience with cloud technologies (industry certifications are welcome, but hands-on experience is prioritized)

Skills

• Ability to understand end-to-end platform and identify issues that can cause performance, scalability, or resilience problems
• Effective analytical, communication, and organizational skills with a willingness to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Thrive in a team environment, collaborating openly and actively contributing
• Able to innovate independently and work with leadership
• Strong eye for detail and skill for root cause analysis in diagnosing and mitigating production problems quickly in a dynamic, high-value environment

Responsibilities

• Work across the organization and collaborate with teams to build a highly scalable and resilient trading platform
• Deliver high-quality, timely, cost-effective, and maintainable software solutions in an agile environment to meet functional and non-functional business requirements
• Actively contribute to the improvement of engineering practices such as code and design reviews, cloud strategy, and build and deployment pipelines
• Work with squad lead and team tech lead on a frequent, recurring basis to design and implement novel solutions to complicated problems
• Clearly present complex technical solutions, ideas, and plans to management, program teams, and less technical stakeholders as needed
• Develop an understanding of the business domain you are working on and contribute to technology discussions with business partners and other external parties
• Investigate creative practices and help decide how to apply them within the team

Schedule

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.