Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
Position Description:
Develops web applications using modern server-side and client-side frameworks and languages, ensuring secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions. Integrates DevSecOps practices to strengthen application security and streamline development workflows. Collaborates closely with technical leads, product owners, analysts, architects, and quality assurance teams to design, build, test, and deliver features that power Fidelity’s digital experiences and personalized planning and advice product. Uses business knowledge to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing complex or 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 complex 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 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) developing software applications using Jenkins, Artifactory, and uDeploy in a financial services environment.
Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, 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) developing software applications using Jenkins, Artifactory, and uDeploy in a financial services environment.
Skills and Knowledge:
Candidate must also possess:
- Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) developing server-side enterprise financial services applications and RESTful microservices in distributed environments using J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and ORM frameworks – Hibernate, iBatis and JDBC; and performing unit testing using JUnit and Mockito.
- DE performing responsive Web Model-View-Controller (MVC) design and front-end development, using Angular framework, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Bootstrap; and performing JavaScript unit and integration testing on front-end web applications according to Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) methodologies.
- DE developing databases using Oracle PL/SQL and MySQL, crafting complex SQL queries, and optimizing data operations to maintain high availability and efficient Oracle DB and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud databases.
- DE building and deploying Cloud applications using AWS and Azure via CI/CD methodology using Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, uDeploy, and Kubernetes; developing observability metrics and views that provide insight into application health, using DataDog and Splunk; and orchestrating best practice procedures using Shell scripting, Docker, and Helm.
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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, IT, Information Systems or related field and 5 years of relevant experience (or Master's + 3 years).
- Experience developing applications using Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, and uDeploy in a financial services environment.
- Demonstrated expertise developing server-side enterprise financial services applications and RESTful microservices using J2EE, Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot.
- Experience with ORM frameworks: Hibernate, iBatis, and JDBC.
- Unit testing experience using JUnit and Mockito.
- Front-end development using Angular, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Bootstrap; responsive MVC design.
- Front-end testing experience and familiarity with TDD and ATDD methodologies.
- Database development and optimization experience with Oracle PL/SQL and MySQL, including complex SQL.
- Experience building and deploying cloud applications on AWS and Azure using CI/CD and Kubernetes.
- Observability and monitoring experience using DataDog and Splunk.
- Experience with Shell scripting, Docker, and Helm for orchestration and automation.
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.
