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Job Description:The Team:
Fidelity’s Brokerage Authorization team builds and operates the core platform that enables secure, scalable access control for Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology. As part of Shared Services Engineering, the team is transforming authorization from mainframe to cloud‑native architectures, delivering platforms and frameworks that support public cloud adoption at scale.
Ideal candidates will have a background in Software Engineering with a strong desire to focus on building performant, high scale, highly available and resilient systems. We are looking for a Systems Thinking Engineer who, through extensive production insights, operational automation, developer guidance, real-time metrics, and automation will guide the team.
The Expertise You Have and The Skills You Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
- 10 plus years of experience in designing and implementing full stack end-to-end customer-facing applications, financial industry experience a plus.
- 7 plus years of experience working in complex architectural designs and technology initiatives.
- 5 plus years of experience working in agile development environment (Scrum/Kanban).
- Experience Handling INC management / Problem Management of Tier 0 platforms and driving 24x7 operational excellence
- Extensive Knowledge of Java and Spring Framework and Spring Boot
- Hands-on application development experience with Public Cloud environments: AWS – Lambda, EKS, S3, Dynamo DB, Kinesis
- Deep understanding of modern authorization architectures, including RBAC, ReBAC, JWT-based authorization, and OAuth 2.0.
- Proven track record of architecting fine-grained access control frameworks, scalable entitlement models, and enterprise-grade authorization systems that balance security, performance, and developer experience. Strong understanding of policy-based authorization patterns and distributed access management. Experience with OpenFGA or comparable ReBAC platforms is highly desirable
- Designing and developing RESTful services using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Swagger, Docker, YAML, JSON.
- Solid Understanding of DevOps CI/CD tools like Jenkins/ Jenkins Core.
- Proven experience in maintaining scalability and resiliency in a complex environment.
- In-depth understanding and experience with performance metrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, testing, and tuning for highly scalable cloud applications.
- Proven experience in maintaining scalability and resiliency in a complex environment.
- Proficient in working with Cloud Databases, creating and leading database objects like tables, views, indexes, Stored Procs and optimizing database performance through query tuning, indexing, analyzing performance reports.
- Demonstrated expertise in Production support, including incident management, root cause analysis, real-time monitoring, and high availability and reliability of critical systems in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to triage, execute root cause analysis, and be decisive under pressure.
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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
- 10+ years designing and implementing full-stack, end-to-end customer-facing applications
- 7+ years working with complex architectural designs and technology initiatives
- 5+ years working in an Agile development environment using Scrum or Kanban
- Experience handling incident management and problem management for Tier 0 platforms
- Extensive knowledge of Java, Spring Framework, and Spring Boot
- Hands-on application development experience with public cloud environments and AWS services
- Deep understanding of RBAC, ReBAC, JWT-based authorization, and OAuth 2.0
- Experience architecting fine-grained access-control frameworks and scalable entitlement models
- Experience with policy-based authorization and distributed access management
- Experience with OpenFGA or comparable ReBAC platforms
- Experience designing and developing RESTful services using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Swagger, Docker, YAML, and JSON
- Understanding of DevOps and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
- Experience maintaining scalability and resiliency in complex environments
- Experience with performance metrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, testing, and tuning for scalable cloud applications
- Experience with cloud databases, database objects, query tuning, indexing, and database performance optimization
- Production support experience including incident management, root-cause analysis, real-time monitoring, and high availability
- Ability to triage issues, perform root-cause analysis, and make decisive decisions under pressure
- Financial industry experience
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.
