Principal Full Stack Engineer

Position Description:

Applicants are permitted to work remotely from an at-home work site anywhere in the United States.

Builds and deploys web-based applications using cloud platforms -- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Azure. Builds automation pipelines using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and DevOps automation methodologies -- Maven, Jenkins, UDeploy, Stash, and Ansible. Designs, develops, and implements database connection management using different database drivers -- Relational Databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Elastic search, Graph DB). Creates reusable terraform modules to build service hosting applications on AWS using Kafka, Kinesis, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB.

Primary Responsibilities:

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

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Full Stack Engineer (or closely related occupation) leading multiple projects simultaneously to design and develop Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Data capabilities using distributed technologies within financial industries.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Full Stack Engineer (or closely related occupation) leading multiple projects simultaneously to design and develop Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Data capabilities using distributed technologies within financial industries.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

1. Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) in developing full stack Java and Python based multi-tier architectures, using Java, J2EE technologies, Springboot, RESTful services, Jenkins pipeline, Maven build tools, GitHub, SQL Developer, API gateway, and Kubernetes technology stack. Overlooking into multiple code reviews, designing, and applying the well-suited design patterns. Following and enforcing secured API design and development to follow the industry standard authentication and authorization using JWT and oAuth2 mechanism.
2. DE in building Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to achieve high performant, and efficient deployment of software applications using automated DevOps processes based on BitBucket, Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Artifactory and Sonar technology stack. Responsible for creating, alerting, and monitoring tools for checking health of production software using Splunk. Performing quality assurance testing of software systems to ensure their reliability and performance by conducting unit, integration and performance testing using Junit, Postman and JMeter.
3. DE in designing and developing Cloud-native financial applications, microservices, and migrating on-premises data centric financial applications to Cloud using AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, Glue, IAM, KMS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Cloud Formation templates, event bridge and CloudWatch.
4. DE in analyzing new use cases, gathering the requirements, converting business cases into technical specifications, and creating project implementation plans to deliver the applications in an MVP approach using Mural, PowerPoint, Confluence, Splunk, ServiceNow, Jira.

Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com.