Position Description:
Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
Designs, develops, and maintains high-quality, secure, and scalable microservice components for software and systems, supporting securities lending and collateral management processes within financial institutions. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features while participating in code and design reviews. Designs and implements Angular User Interface (UI) architecture to support scalable, accessible front-end applications, enforce UI security best practices, and integrate UI with microservices via REST with robust error handling. Optimizes performance, maintains quality gates, promotes design system adoption with reusable components, and sets front-end standards while guiding developers. Implements and maintains Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and monitors unit and integration testing to ensure reliability. Uses business knowledge to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing multiple software applications and conducting studies of alternatives. Analyzes and recommends changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management.
Primary Responsibilities:
Participates in architecture design teams.
• Defines and implements application-level architecture.
• Develops applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division.
• Recommends development testing tools and methodologies and reviews and validates test plans.
• Responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables.
• Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems.
• Establishes full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms.
• Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget.
• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects.
• Plans and coordinates project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.
• Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues.
• Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives.
• Advises senior management on technical strategy.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting
several divisional initiatives.
• Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Technology
Management, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) designing and building responsive web applications in a financial services environment.
Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information
Technology Management, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) designing and building responsive web applications in a financial services environment.
Skills and Knowledge:
Candidate must also possess:
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) architecting, designing, and building feature-rich web applications with JavaScript frameworks (Angular.js, Angular, and Backbone.js) and front-end technologies (HTML, HTML5, CSS, and SCSS); modeling application state and establishing predictable data flows using TypeScript, and integrating RESTful Application Programming Interface (API) utilizing state management libraries (NgRx and Redux); developing semantic, accessible, and responsive UIs, implementing design systems, and ensuring cross-browser and cross-device compatibility; and applying UI and User Experience (UX) principles, optimizing performance, implementing automated tests, and maintaining Git-based version control, using modern build tools (ESBuild).
DE building applications and tools to support security finance trading needs, focusing on improving daily efficiency and streamlining high operational overhead; developing solutions for pre- and post-trade processing, order management, reconciliation, and real-time monitoring; and integrating with external vendor systems (Loanet and SmartLoan) to ensure accurate data balancing and seamless workflows across the securities finance lifecycle.
DE performing full stack development and implementing, testing, and debugging highly scalable and secure services using Java, J2EE, Microservices, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Spring MVC, and SQL within Agile environments; developing web-based applications using JavaServer Pages (JSP), Spring Security, and Core Java; implementing messaging with MQ and web services (SOAP and REST); and building UI components for fully paid lending programs while integrating with mainframe systems and external vendors (Loanet and SmartLoan).
DE applying DevOps principles across the development lifecycle by performing code scanning, automatingCI/Continuous Development (CD) pipelines with Jenkins, and administering source code repositories using GitHub; and identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, optimizing solutions for securities finance applications, and supporting production deployments on AWS Cloud.
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Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.
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, Information Technology, Information Systems or related field (or foreign equivalent) and five years' relevant experience
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems or related field (or foreign equivalent) and three years' relevant experience
- Expertise architecting and building web applications with Angular/Angular.js and Backbone.js
- Proficiency with TypeScript, state management (NgRx, Redux), and integrating RESTful APIs
- Front-end skills: HTML/HTML5, CSS, SCSS, responsive and accessible UI development, design system implementation
- Full-stack development experience with Java, J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring Security, JSP, and SQL
- Experience building microservices and deploying on AWS
- Experience with messaging and web services (MQ, SOAP, REST)
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) and source control (Git/GitHub)
- Experience with automated unit and integration testing and QA readiness
- Domain experience in securities finance / securities lending, including integrations with vendor systems (Loanet, SmartLoan)
- Experience applying DevOps principles and performing code scanning and production support on AWS
- Proven ability to participate in architecture design, mentor junior developers, and advise senior management
- Familiarity with modern build tools (ESBuild)
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.
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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.
