Principal, Full Stack Engineer

Job Title: Principal, Full Stack Engineer

The Purpose of this Role

We are seeking a technically adept Principal, Full Stack Engineer to join our Fidelity Stock Plan Services team (SPS) within Workplace Investing (WI). In this critical role, you will serve as a technical authority driving the stability, scalability, and continuous evolution of our production systems. You will lead the resolution of the complex and high-impact issues, shape support strategies, and influence engineering practices across teams. Your deep expertise and proactive approach will help guide towards operational excellence, mentor engineers, and ensure that our systems consistently meet the needs of our customers and partners.

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or Equivalent.

• You have hands-on experience in building the interconnected systems that enable a business to operate, including hardware, software, network and database.

• Very Strong expertise in updating and maintaining legacy systems to leverage modern technologies and architectures.

• You have the expertise and experience in designing and developing microservices which can handle high Transaction Per Second traffic.

• Strong understanding of data governance principles and best practices.

• You are experienced with a variety of modern programming languages and frameworks. 8+ years of experience working with Java, Springboot, Oracle, Kubernetes, Kafka, Azure cloud technologies.

• You have a passion for technology and can stay on top of latest technology trends.

• Good working knowledge on ITIL processes like Incident management, Change management etc.,

• You have hands-on experience leading or mentoring scrum teams focused on building software solutions for business critical, architecturally distributed experiences. The teams you have worked with have multi-functional responsibilities such as engineering, quality, devops and release implementation.

• You care about cycle time and use CI/CD practices, tools to rapidly deploy changes to production while minimizing risk.

• Have strong communication skills and technical expertise to drive and participate in meaningful discussions with partners across different roles and different skillsets.

The Skills that are Key to This Role

• Hands on experience in Advanced Java & Spring Boot, Event/Listener messaging frameworks

• Hands on experience in Designing and Developing Robust RESTful API

• Hands-on experience in Kubernetes tools and services, including managed Kubernetes platforms, service meshes, monitoring solutions, and security tools

·       Advanced Java & Spring Boot: Deep expertise in Java-based systems, including performance tuning, memory optimization, and the ability to influence design decisions that impact supportability and reliability

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• SQL & PostgreSQL: Skilled in analyzing query performance, optimizing database interactions, and supporting large-scale data operations

• Linux Command Line: Proficient in Linux environments and scripting

• Azure: Extensive experience in Azure cloud and containerized deployments

• Monitoring & Alerts: Define and drive the observability, including the design of dashboards, alerting mechanisms, and reliability metrics. Lead reliability reviews with application owners and engineering teams to ensure proactive risk mitigation.

• CI/CD & DevOps: Build robust CI/CD and shift left practices and improve operational efficiency

• Analytical Thinking: Ability to break down complex problems and identify root causes

• Security & Compliance: Champion secure development and support practices and lead compliance efforts

• Communicate clearly and provide leadership level communication during high-impact incidents and application issues.

• Incident Management: Triage incoming incidents, perform initial diagnosis, and lead issue response and drive root cause analysis and postmortem documentation

• Hands-on experience in utilizing the Dev assist tools to improve quality and efficiency

• Experience in implementing Micro services Architecture & building / deploying highly automated, scalable and maintainable infrastructure.

• Experience in designing and developing apps with high throughput and low latency utilizing load balancing, caching, threading etc.

• Strategic thinking and critical problem-solving skills

The Value You Deliver

• Define, develop, and implement application-level architecture hosted in the cloud.

• Use your expertise and leadership to influence and gain consensus on how to proceed, remove impediments and strive for robust team success sprint over sprint.

• Consistently making culture choices that positively impact the team, helping the team to create a better work environment.

• Understand the leadership vision and own the execution of that vision.

• Cultivate a culture of best-in-class software engineering practices

• Deliver system automation by setting up continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines

• Communicate effectively in team environment.

• Identify departmental needs and make suggestions regarding technical direction.

• The team will view you as an advocate for continuous learning, helping them improve sprint over sprint. You help build a trustful, open environment which is encouraging problem solving and experimentation.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• 9.5 years of experience.  Completed three or more projects on commercially available applications.

• B.E./B Tech in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.

·       Expertise in Java, Spring Boot framework, SQL and in exploring new frameworks, dev tools and advance software engineering practices.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

As a Principal Software Engineer of the Fidelity Health Technology Team, you will play an important role in shaping the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of the SPS platform. Your work directly influences the experience of millions of users by driving systemic improvements, leading the resolution of high-impact issues, and guiding support strategies across teams. In this dynamic, customer-centric environment, your leadership ensures business continuity, cultivates a culture of resilience, and empowers teams to deliver high-quality.

BU Overview

WI (Workplace Investments) helps our customers save and invest through workplace retirement savings plans, build lifetime relationships with customers and provide employers with cost-effective, integrated employee benefit solutions. WI serves customers online, over the phone, and through a nationwide network of investor centers. WI is also committed to helping drive employee retirement readiness by delivering leading-edge financial solutions to employers, including recordkeeping, cash management products and services and personal advisory services (PAS).

Location Bangalore          

Shift timings: 11:00 am - 08:00pm