Join Fidelity as a Principal Software Engineer - Technical Lead within our Asset Management Technology group. You will play a key role in shaping technical direction, engineering standards, and the delivery of modern microservices and user interfaces supporting investment solutions managing over $950bn in assets.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
You have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent and are passionate about continuous learning and technology innovation.
Required Experience
- Minimum 10 years of software design and development experience.
- Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful services.
- Experience with Angular or a similar front-end framework.
- Experience designing and developing microservices-based applications.
- Experience working within Agile teams and delivering incremental business value.
- Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD tools such as Maven and Jenkins.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with automated testing tools such as Karate, Playwright, Storybook, or similar frameworks.
- Experience with Oracle SQL and PL/SQL.
- Exposure to AWS and/or Kubernetes.
- Exposure to messaging technologies such as Kafka.
- Investment Management or Financial Services domain knowledge.
As a Technical Lead, You Will
- Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to engineers across the team.
- Promote engineering excellence through code reviews, automation, testing, and DevOps best practices.
- Contribute to architecture and design decisions for business-critical applications.
- Partner with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Help establish and maintain engineering standards across the team.
We Are Looking for Someone Who
- Manages priorities effectively across multiple workstreams.
- Can triage issues, perform root cause analysis, and make sound decisions in complex or time-sensitive situations.
- Champions best practices in software engineering, CI/CD, automation, testing, and code quality.
- Builds strong relationships and collaborates effectively with distributed teams and stakeholders.
- Thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced, and agile environment.
The Team
In this role, you will contribute to the development of technology solutions used by Portfolio Analysts and Portfolio Managers supporting more than $950 billion in assets under management across Retirement and College Savings solutions.
You will help enhance a suite of microservices and user interfaces that provide portfolio construction, modelling, and trading capabilities. Working within a modern engineering environment, you will contribute to scalable, resilient solutions while helping shape the future direction of our technology platform.
Why Join Us?
- Influence technical direction and engineering standards within a highly collaborative team.
- Work on business-critical platforms supporting large-scale investment solutions.
- Contribute to modern engineering practices including microservices, automation, CI/CD, cloud technologies, and DevOps.
- Partner with talented engineers and business experts in a dynamic and innovative environment.
- Help deliver technology that supports millions of investors in achieving their long-term financial goals.
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent
- Minimum 10 years of software design and development experience
- Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful services
- Experience with Angular or a similar front-end framework
- Experience designing and developing microservices-based applications
- Experience working within Agile teams and delivering incremental business value
- Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD tools such as Maven and Jenkins
- Experience with automated testing tools such as Karate, Playwright, Storybook, or similar frameworks
- Experience with Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
- Exposure to AWS and/or Kubernetes
- Exposure to messaging technologies such as Kafka
- Investment Management or Financial Services domain knowledge
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.
