The Team
We at Fidelity Trade Management Engineering (TME) group are responsible for building and maintaining Fidelity’s brokerage platform order management and trade processing system. We are high functioning, fast paced technology group that work on cutting edge technologies to deliver low latency and high throughput trading solutions. We want to work with an engineer who is versatile, always eager to take on new problems and share solutions as we push the technology forward. Working independently as well as collaboratively, it is important for this person to have a positive approach to leadership, teamwork, and a drive to deliver groundbreaking solutions every day.
The Expertise You Have
- Have at least a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent, with a preference for advanced study
- Minimum 8 years of software design, development and performance testing experience
- Deep hands-on experience in Software Performance Engineering
- Demonstrated skill in Java, Spring, Python, Linux
- Hands on experience using tools like jMeter to build performance harness for software benchmarking
- Willingness to guide and mentor junior team members on solid engineering practices
- Previous exposure to trading systems or brokerage technology
- Knowledge of the FIX protocol is a plus
The Skills You Bring
- Ability to understand end to end platform and identify issues that can cause performance, scalability or resilience issues
- Effective analytical, communication, and organizational skills and a willingness to run with multiple tasks at a given time
- Thrive in a team environment, collaborating openly and actively contributing
- Able to innovate independently and work with leadership
- Familiarity with event driven and service-oriented processing is required
- Demonstrated work experience with cloud technologies. Industry certifications are welcome, but hands on experience and expertise are better. Walking the walk is the most important thing
- An eye for detail and a skill for root cause analysis in diagnosing and mitigating production problems as quickly as possible in a dynamic, high value environment
The Value you Deliver
- Work across organization and collaborate with teams to build highly scalable and resilient trading platform
- Deliver high quality, timely, cost effective and maintainable software solutions in an agile environment to meet functional and non-functional business requirements
- Actively contribute to the improvement of engineering practices such as code and design reviews, cloud strategy, and build and deployment pipelines
- Work with squad lead and team tech lead on a frequent, recurring basis to design and implement novel solutions to complicated problems
- Able to clearly present complex technical solutions, ideas, and plans to management, program teams, and less technical stakeholders as needed
- Develop an understanding of the business domain you are working on and contribute to technology discussions with business partners and other external parties
- Investigate creative practices and help decide how to apply them within the team.
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, Engineering, or Information Technology
- Minimum 8 years of software design and development experience
- Deep hands-on experience in Software Performance Engineering
- Demonstrated skill in Java, Spring, Python, and Linux
- Experience with tools like jMeter for performance testing
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.
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