Fidelity LEAP Program
Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position
Launch your tech career by building real solutions that impact millions.
Ready to go beyond the classroom? Build technology that powers financial outcomes for millions of customers — supporting individuals, employers, and institutions across a global, diversified business with trillions in assets. Join Fidelity’s LEAP Program and start your career alongside thousands of technologists shaping the future of financial services.
About the LEAP Program
Our 10-week immersive program is designed to help you transition from college to a full-time engineering career.
You’ll gain hands-on experience, build production-ready skills, and grow alongside a cohort of peers, all while solving real, complex business challenges.
What you’ll gain:
- Real-world engineering experience from day one
- Mentorship from experienced engineers and leaders
- A strong peer network that lasts beyond the program
- A clear path to continued growth at Fidelity
Program Highlights
Learn by Building
Work on real projects in a supportive environment where you can experiment, learn, and make an impact.
AI-Native Development
Use AI tools as part of your daily workflow, learning how to apply them responsibly to modern engineering challenges.
Cohort Experience
Join a group of peers in an in-person, team-based setting with built-in support, coaching, and collaboration.
Career Acceleration
This isn’t just a program, it’s the start of your career. Continue growing with meaningful work, mentorship, and long-term opportunities at Fidelity.
The Role
We’re looking for curious, driven software engineers who want to build innovative solutions and challenge the status quo.
In this role, you will:
- Build scalable applications and features using modern programming languages, traditional and newer database platforms, integration technologies (APIs, messaging) and user interfaces/front-end frameworks
- Work on real projects from start to finish across the full software development lifecycle including requirements, design, development, testing and deployment
- Write code, test it and deploy it with support from your team, leveraging standardized and automated software development pipeline practices and technologies that safely and securely move your code from development to production
- Explore innovative technologies, including AI tools, and learn how to responsibly use them in your work to deliver cutting-edge capabilities and services for our customers
- Work as part of an engineering team obsessed with delivery solutions that help our customers achieve their long-term financial goals
Skills You Bring
- Pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or relevant bachelor’s degree
- Understanding of programming fundamentals and data structures
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Hands-on project or internship experience (preferred)
- Ability to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Curiosity, asking great questions and a passion for fast and continuous learning
Why Fidelity?
- Work on products used by millions
- Access to diverse tech stack and AI tools
- Structured career development and mobility
- Strong mentorship culture
- Competitive benefits and stability
If you’re excited by solving hard problems and want to build systems that make a real difference for customers, Fidelity is a great fit for you. We hire for fundamentals, learning agility and problem-solving, and are committed to help you grow. Apply today!
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
- Pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or relevant bachelor's degree
- Understanding of programming fundamentals and data structures
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Hands-on project or internship experience
- Ability to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Curiosity, asking great questions and a passion for fast and continuous learning
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.
Fidelity Investments Insights
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.
