Principal, Full Stack Engineer

Job Title: Principal, Full Stack Engineer

The Purpose of This Role

As a Principal Software engineer you will be applying your strong software engineering practices (implementation and validation) to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve Fidelity customer-facing and integration software solutions including exploring and developing frameworks, reusable assets. You will also be supporting your team in adopting best practices to ensure we are building the right product, and we are building it right. You will be working closely with architects to understand the standards. You are encouraged to quickly gain an understanding of all the components of our platform to be able to lead and chip into strategic roadmaps and initiatives related to the improvement, maintenance, and support of the platform and tools. Being technically competent is telling only half of the story. We believe that delivering the best possible customer experience requires an artful blend of human ingenuity and technology. While we value smart technologists, we are fanatics about our Culture Code that promotes leadership at all levels.

The Value You Deliver

• Understand the leadership vision and execute on that vision.

• Contribute to own entire features from concept to deployment working on cross-functional activities

• Use your experience and knowledge to influence better software design, promote proper software engineering

• Pro-active consulting in the definition phase about the non-functional requirements and its financial implications.

• Provide technology alternatives to business problems and clearly explain the advantages, problems and side-effects of alternatives.

• Ensure operability of technical architecture by partnering with the Enterprise Architects, project teams and taking responsibility for the technical design dispensations

• Manage technology obsolescence of the product and aligning to enterprise directives

• Identifying opportunities to bring emerging technologies/solutions to deliver innovative solutions to meet business objectives.

• Help strengthen further the culture of innovation by setting examples

• Exercise a passion for keeping your knowledge up-to-date with the latest and greatest

• Help maintain the high level of integrity in the team

• Take ownership and accountability for determining what needs to be done

• Providing unified experience to access technical assets and resources

• Implement consistent standards for API development, deployment

• Coordinate publishing and consumption in the API Marketplace

The Skills that are Key to this role

Technical

• Extensive development experience (currently hands on) in Java, Spring MVC / Spring Core / Spring Boot Web Services (REST) and configuring web containers.

• Hands on experience in Messaging and Event driven design and development

• Working Knowledge of API management software such as stratum and other integration technologies such as messaging, streaming etc.

• IDE’s Spring Tool Suite, and Eclipse, within a UNIX and Windows environment.

• Application build, deploy using Continuous Integration/ Deployment (CI/CD) tools – Swagger/Git/Jenkins/uDeploy/Docker etc

• Deep knowledge of Azure/AWS offerings and well versed with cloud based solutions design/architecture

• Must have experience in designing Micro services and performance fine tuning of services

• Understands and applies fundamental design principles behind a scalable, low latency, high throughput distributed application

• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns and their application

• Champions best practices for various aspects of engineering excellence like CICD, design reviews, code reviews, unit testing, across technology stack

• Hands-on experience with Dev Assist Tools

Behavioral

• Be Collaborative: Work in partnership with the users, Architecture and Engineering teams to design, build and deliver end-to-end solutions. This individual will also help the fellow team members in ramping up on the new architecture and technology landscape

• Be Creative: Promote and foster an environment of innovation to deliver new product solutions to market which help improve scale and efficiency, business growth and investment performance

• Influence Others: In partnership with the delivery and engineering leads in US, Ireland and India, help advance and support product, delivery and technical practices

  • Inspire Others: Demonstrate a deep passion for technology and financial domain and create an ability to tap into the creative minds of the engineering team

The Skills that are Good To Have for this role

• Exposure to Mainframe/C++ or other legacy tech re-platforming projects is desirable.

• Experience in US Financial Services industry domain.

• You should have relevant experience working with Agile teams

• You should have the effective influencing and communication skills to lead a high performing technology team.

• You should be proactive and have demonstrated ability to lead from front, and motivate team to deliver the best

• Exposure to emerging technologies like AI/ML, Data Analytics/Visualization, and Speech Recognition will be an advantage

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

Fidelity Enterprise Architecture – Enterprise Framework and Integration Services Center of Excellence to build and support outstanding products for its highly business critical applications. Our architecture and engineering team is innovative, diverse, passionate and self-driven. We work in a very dynamic agile environment.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• 12+ years of IT relevant experience

Location : Bangalore – Manyata / Chennai

Shift timings: 11am – 8pm IST. The working hours will be flexible so that the incumbent can provide adequate overlap with the US based squads and other stakeholders.