Principal Full Stack Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer – Options Overlay Team 

Location: BOS (MMK/RI) and New Jersey

Fidelity Asset Management Solutions (FAMS) is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join a full stack dynamic engineering team. You will be a hands-on lead developer contributing to building a suite of Micro-Services and UIs (User Interface), whilst also leading the squad on technical direction, design, and development. This will be done in collaboration with Team Leads, Product Owners, Architects, Business Partners, your Peers, and other Team Members. 

You will lead a squad responsible for building a brand-new platform that will enable us to launch a new Options Overlay Product (Liquid Alternatives) within FAMS. This is a unique opportunity to be part of something special from the ground up. FAMS is an exciting growth area for Fidelity under the Investment Frontier Neighborhood (IFN), and you will work on broadening the portfolio of capabilities within the new Liquid Alts product that employs several different Market Instruments including Derivatives, Equities. As well as solving for new products in areas like Endowments & Foundations, Liquid Alternatives and Liability Driven Investments. 

** This position is only for Merrimack, Boston, Jersey City or Smithfield locations only. 
 

 The Expertise We are Looking For  

• You care deeply about doing excellent work with excellent people. 

• You have a BS/MS in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent and you want to learn more. 

• A minimum of 10 years of design & development experience. 

• You have extensive experience in SpringBoot, Angular (RXJS) / Java, RESTful services / Oracle SQL & PLSQL and deep familiarity in at least one other. 

• Ability to set ambitious standards in applying practices across the squad in areas such as Unit testing, Automation, ATDD, DevOps, CI/CD, design, and code reviews. 

• Working experience on ATDD, Cucumber, Karate, Cypress or similar frameworks is a plus. 

• Exposure to Cloud Technologies such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Kubernetes would be an advantage. 

• You enjoy working in Agile Teams, focused on delivery incremental business value. 

• You are a strong collaborator and build positive strong relationships. 

• You enjoy mentoring and helping to develop talent at all levels. 

• You have effective communication skills and can convey technical concepts with stakeholders and influence meaningful discussions with partners. 

• You have experience in breaking down high-level requirements into solutions. 

• You have experience in leading the design of enterprise solutions across the stack. 

• Ability to work on complex business and technical domain, Investment Management/ Financial Business Domain would be beneficial, but it is not required. 
   

The Purpose of Your Role 

We will welcome you onto an agile track that is at the forefront of engineering in Asset Management Technology, FAMS with a prominent level of focus on ATDD, Continuous Integration/Delivery and engineering excellence. We want to work with an engineer who is versatile, always eager to take on the latest problems and share solutions as we push the technology forward. Working independently as well as collaboratively, it is paramount for this person to have a positive ‘can-do’ approach to teamwork. 
 

The Skills You Bring 

• Having excellent analytical, communication, and organizational skills and the ability to run with multiple tasks at a given time. 

• Ability to provide technical guidance to your team. 

• Coach and mentor more junior members of the team. 

• You thrive in a team environment, collaborating openly and actively contributing to how work gets completed. 

• You can act independently under general directions. 

The Value You Deliver 

• 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 evangelize engineering practices such as code and design reviews and the definition of source control strategy, environment strategy, and build and deployment pipeline. 

• Work with product owner, technical leads and architect as required to influence technical improvements to the platform. 

• Develop a keen understanding of the business domain you are working on and actively participate in technology discussions with business partners and other external parties. 

• Investigate creative practices and share them with your team-mates.