Director, Software Engineering

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Westlake, TX, USA
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Fintech
The Role
Lead full-stack engineering for pricing and billing platforms: partner with product, set technical direction, mentor teams, enforce standards, modernize architecture, contribute hands-on (~30%), and drive AI tool adoption to accelerate delivery.
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Note: Fidelity is not providing immigration sponsorship for this position. 

The Role

The FFIO Pricing & Billing Technology team is seeking an experienced Director, Software Engineering to accelerate support for alternative investments across our billing platform initiatives and drive new capabilities and enhancements. This role provides technical leadership with a focus on engineering excellence and business outcomes. Key responsibilities will include:

  • Partner with product leaders to refine requirements, decompose epics into user stories, and deliver high-quality solutions that meet business expectations.

  • Align technology initiatives with business goals, delivering scalable, future-ready platforms.

  • Contribute hands-on to development ~30% of the time.

  • Champion adoption of AI-driven development tools to accelerate delivery and improve productivity.

  • Mentor engineers, building frameworks for skill development, career growth, and leadership.

  • Establish and enforce coding standards, design patterns, and best practices; ensure strong code review and quality processes.

  • Foster a “tightly aligned, loosely coupled” model by strengthening partnerships, promoting enterprise standards, and enabling team autonomy.

  • Apply innovative technology perspectives to solve complex problems requiring speed and scale.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • 12+ years of hands-on full stack development experience using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Camel, JMS, Apache Kafka, Oracle (or other relational databases), and deploying applications in Kubernetes environments

  • Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks and tools, including Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, NPM, and RxJS

  • Strong foundation in software engineering principles and design patterns, with a focus on engineering excellence and the ability to reverse engineer and understand existing systems

  • Proven delivery focus with full ownership mindset; track record of driving innovation and transformation through emerging technologies and architectural modernization

  • Ability and aspiration to define and drive technology roadmaps, including engineering standards, architecture direction, and product evolution

  • Experience building and leading high-performing teams in fast-paced, collaborative environments, with a focus on delivering business outcomes

  • Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving skills; adaptable, hands-on, proactive, and curious with a “can-do” attitude

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline (preferred)

  • Experience modernizing legacy systems and building digital workflows (preferred)

  • Experience developing or modernizing applications within financial services or asset management, particularly alternative investments (preferred)

The Team

Fidelity Fund Investment Operations (FFIO) provides accounting and investment management support services for Fidelity mutual funds and other retail and institutional investment products. These services include calculating and distributing NAVs, distribution rates and yields for a wide variety of investment products; preparing fund financial statements, dividend estimates and tax returns; monitoring delivery of fund trades to custodian banks; processing corporate actions; collecting securities income on behalf of the funds; reconciling, reporting, and moving money in support of fund shareholder transactions; and managing fund liquidity.

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.

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Category:Information Technology

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

  • 12+ years of hands-on full stack development experience using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Camel, JMS, Apache Kafka, Oracle (or other relational databases), and deploying applications in Kubernetes environments
  • Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks and tools, including Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, NPM, and RxJS
  • Strong foundation in software engineering principles and design patterns, ability to reverse engineer and understand existing systems
  • Proven delivery focus with full ownership mindset and track record of driving innovation and architectural modernization
  • Ability and aspiration to define and drive technology roadmaps, including engineering standards and architecture direction
  • Experience building and leading high-performing teams in fast-paced, collaborative environments, focused on delivering business outcomes
  • Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving skills; adaptable, hands-on, proactive, and curious
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline
  • Experience modernizing legacy systems and building digital workflows
  • Experience developing or modernizing applications within financial services or asset management, particularly alternative investments

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
58,848 Employees
Year Founded: 1946

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.

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