Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
We are seeking a Director of Frontend Engineering to lead and evolve a high-performing team focused on frontend platforms, accessibility, developer tooling, shared services, and monorepo management. The ideal candidate combines deep frontend technical expertise with proven people leadership. This leader will play a critical role in defining the frontend engineering strategy that enables product teams to deliver exceptional digital experiences at scale.
Partnerships and developing relationships will be key to their success. They will partner closely with UX Designers, UX Developers, architects, and application development teams to drive consistency, accessibility, developer productivity, and engineering excellence across the organization. A strong background in modern frontend development is required, and prior experience serving as a technical lead is highly preferred.
As a senior engineering leader, you are responsible for:
Leading and developing people in ways aligned to their unique career goals and aspirations
Guiding your team through complex technical trade‑offs, design reviews, and platform evolution
Technical direction, code quality, and engineering best practices
Delivering outcomes, product portfolio optimization, and integrated roadmaps tied to business objectives.
Strong candidates will bring a dedication to technical learning, a passion for developing others, and crafting foundational technology solutions that accelerate innovation across the organization.
Responsibilities
Lead a group of frontend engineers, UX developers and UX designers serving teams across Workplace Investing digital
Shape the modern frontend strategy of WI Digital, working closely with your team to identify areas of improvement, optimization and need
Advance and enhance our enterprise accessibility tool suite
8+ years directly managing fast-paced technology with focus on Front-End Teams
Previous ownership of component libraries, monorepos, developer and accessibility tooling.
Deep background in modern UI and experience architecture and enabling consistent, high-quality user experiences across applications
Strong experience leading engineering talent, while setting clear technical direction and accountability
Experience developing technical leads and technical leaders
Proven track record developing platform capabilities and supporting the teams that rely on them
Strong hands-on understanding of Angular, TypeScript, and component-driven UI development, including modern build, testing, and performance optimization practices
Experience owning large-scale monorepo environments, including governance, build and release strategies, dependency management, shared code platforms, and developer productivity tooling
Firm understanding of accessibility including how to develop for and test accessibility through WCAG 2.2
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines supporting frontend assets, shared UI libraries and client-side builds
Experience influencing engineering leaders and key business partners to champion platform modernization, frontend standards, accessibility initiatives, and developer productivity improvements across multiple teams.
Practical experience with DevAssist tools including Github Copilot or Claude Code with deep familiarity with how to optimize engineering efforts with AI assistance.
Digital Enablement Team designs, develops, implements, and supports Fidelity's Workplace Investing (WI) suite of digital products and services through tools and services.
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.
Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of directly managing technology teams focused on frontend engineering
- Experience owning component libraries, monorepos, developer tooling, and accessibility tooling
- Deep experience with modern UI and experience architecture
- Strong experience leading engineering talent and setting technical direction and accountability
- Experience developing technical leads and technical leaders
- Proven track record developing platform capabilities and supporting dependent teams
- Strong hands-on understanding of Angular and TypeScript
- Experience with component-driven UI development, modern build, testing, and performance optimization
- Experience managing large-scale monorepo governance, build and release strategies, dependency management, shared code platforms, and developer productivity tooling
- Firm understanding of accessibility development and testing through WCAG 2.2
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for frontend assets, shared UI libraries, and client-side builds
- Experience influencing engineering leaders and business partners on platform modernization, frontend standards, accessibility, and developer productivity
- Practical experience with GitHub Copilot or Claude Code and optimizing engineering work with AI assistance
- Prior experience serving as a technical lead
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fidelity Investments and has not been reviewed or approved by Fidelity Investments.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
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What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
