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Job Description:Principal Full Stack Engineer
The Role
We are seeking a Principal Full Stack Engineer to join our Shared Services Engineering organization, supporting our Brokerage Notification and Messaging Platforms. In this role, you will contribute to the development of the Event Distribution Platform and help modernize the Fidelity Electronic Notification System (FENS) from a legacy mainframe-based solution into a scalable, cloud-native, event-driven BNS platform. These platforms will enable real-time, compliant, and personalized communications for millions of Retail and Institutional Brokerage clients.
As part of a collaborative and highly skilled engineering team, you will work alongside software engineers, architects, product owners, and business partners to build modern event-driven solutions that support Fidelity's strategic messaging and communication capabilities. You'll have the opportunity to work with cloud technologies, event streaming platforms, modern APIs, and distributed systems while contributing to solutions that operate at enterprise scale.
We value innovation, continuous learning, teamwork, and engineering excellence. You will be empowered to solve challenging technical problems, contribute new ideas, and grow your expertise in cloud-native and event-driven architectures.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- 10 plus years of deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, event streaming patterns, and scalable messaging platforms.
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices. and enterprise-grade cloud solutions on AWS.
- Proven ability to own critical platforms and services end-to-end, driving architecture, design, implementation, operational readiness, and long-term sustainability.
- Experience establishing and advancing engineering excellence, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, resiliency engineering, operational monitoring, and software quality practices.
- Deep understanding of system design, scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and operational maturity in large-scale distributed environments.
- Ability to identify technical risks, make sound engineering trade-offs, and lead teams through complex modernization and transformation initiatives.
- Passion for solving complex engineering challenges, continuously improving platform capabilities, and delivering innovative business-critical solutions.
The Team
The Brokerage Record Keeping Technology (BRT) Shared Services Engineering Notification team builds and supports Fidelity’s core alerting systems. The team delivers real-time alerts across Fidelity Institutional, Institutional Wealth Management Services, Workplace Investing, and Wealth businesses.
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
- 10 or more years of experience with Java, Spring Boot, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, event streaming patterns, and scalable messaging platforms
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices
- Experience developing enterprise-grade cloud solutions on AWS
- Experience owning critical platforms and services end-to-end, including architecture, design, implementation, operational readiness, and sustainability
- Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, observability, resiliency engineering, operational monitoring, and software quality practices
- Deep understanding of system design, scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and operational maturity in large-scale distributed environments
- Ability to identify technical risks, make engineering trade-offs, and lead complex modernization and transformation initiatives
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.
