Job Description:
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Join our dynamic team building scalable, high-performance platforms to support Risk analytics, data-driven decision-making, and modern application development. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy working with cutting-edge technologies, this opportunity is for you.
The Purpose of Your Role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be a key contributor to the design, development, and deployment of full-stack applications that support RISK analytics, modeling, and risk batch workflows. You will work closely with product managers, quant analysts, and infrastructure teams to deliver robust solutions that are cloud-ready, modular, and maintainable.
The Value You Deliver
Architecting and implementing backend services using Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, and Django, with a focus on performance, scalability, and security.
Designing and optimizing data access layers for Oracle databases, ensuring efficient query performance and data integrity.
Integrating enterprise-grade authentication mechanisms including OAuth2 and SSO, ensuring secure access across applications.
Enhancing developer experience through IDE integrations like JupyterLab, VS Code Server, and JetBrains, and leveraging GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted development.
Collaborating in Agile teams, participating in sprint planning, code reviews, and retrospectives, and driving continuous improvement in engineering practices.
The Skills That Are Key to This Role
Languages: Expert-level proficiency in Python, with working knowledge of TypeScript and SQL.
Frameworks: Hands-on experience with FastAPI, Flask, and Django for microservices and web applications, REST API integration
Data Access: Experience with Oracle databases, including schema design and performance tuning.
Version Control: Proficient in GitHub Enterprise, including branching strategies and CI/CD workflows.
Authentication: Familiarity with OAuth2, SSO, and secure token-based authentication.
Developer Tools: Comfortable using JupyterLab, VS Code Server, JetBrains IDEs, and GitHub Copilot.
The Skills That Are Good to Have for This Role
Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems.
Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools like Jenkins, Terraform, or Ansible.
Understanding of financial services or asset management domain is a plus with deep knowledge in the Investment RISK platforms/methodologies/analytics
Strong communication skills and ability to mentor junior developers.
How Your Work Impacts the Organization
Your work will directly support mission-critical platforms that enable research, modeling, and investment decision-making. By building reliable and scalable systems, you will empower teams across the organization to innovate faster, reduce operational overhead, and deliver greater value to clients and stakeholders.
The Expertise We’re Looking For
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
10+ years of professional experience in software development, with a strong focus on Python, Database engineering and full-stack engineering.
Exposure and expertise in the Investment RISK platforms, methodologies and calculation
Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively in a distributed team environment.
Location: Bangalore – Manyata/EGL
Shift Timings: 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Certifications:Category:Information TechnologySkills Required
- Expert-level proficiency in Python
- 10+ years of professional experience in software development
- Experience with Oracle databases
- Proficient in GitHub Enterprise
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
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.
