Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

We have an outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated Principal Software Engineer to work as a technical lead in the Fidelity Institutional Technology Group.

Our team is responsible for designing, developing & implementing high-performance, secure and scalable applications to support the Fidelity Institutional business.

This role will form part of an exciting new group building innovative capabilities to support the rollout of new Digital Asset financial instruments in the Institutional market.

The Expertise We're Looking For

• You have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent and you want to learn more
• 8+ years of software application design & development experience
• Desired skills: Java, Spring/Springboot, Angular/Javascript/Typescript, RESTful Services, AWS Cloud, Dockerised frameworks, CI/CD
• Knowledge of batch and event-driven technologies (Kafka) is an advantage
• Passionate about good API practices, structured design, clean code, microservices
• Experience with testing software, including writing automated unit, integration, performance, and end-to-end tests
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Ability to effectively communicate with multiple stakeholders including technology partners and the business

The Purpose of Your Role

• You will be a technical lead member of a co-located scrum team made up of other software engineers, quality automation engineers and systems analysts responsible for delivering key customer features
• We are looking for an engineer who is versatile, always eager to take on new problems, share solutions and mentor junior engineers as we push the technology forward
• You will help define, implement, and advance development practices, standards, and strategies, contributing to the modern engineering practices across our platforms and teams

The Skills You Bring

• You care deeply about doing excellent work with excellent people
• You have excellent analytical, communication, and organizational skills and the ability to run with multiple tasks at a given time
• Ability to provide technical mentorship to the team
• Help to improve engineering, architectural and coding standards
• You thrive in a team environment, collaborating openly with colleagues on shared items of work and communicating effectively

The Value You Deliver

• 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 and promote engineering practices such as code and design reviews, source control strategy, environment strategy, and build and deployment pipelines
• Work with product owner, peer technical leads and architects as required to influence technical improvements to the platform
• Develop a keen understanding of the business domain and actively participate in technology discussions with business partners and other external parties
• Investigate creative practices and share them with your team-mates