Principal Software Engineer

Job Title : Principal Software Engineer

The Purpose of This Role

Principal – Software Engineering role will support the business to ensure projects are implemented with the highest quality of product by bringing all required business requirements clarity to the scrum team. This role will fulfil the development teams need for detail understanding of the projects and their problems, as well as the significant focus on production stability.

Everyone craves a way of working that empowers them to unleash their best work and inspire better futures for more people! Our way of working will enable you to deliver what matters most to our business, our clients and our people. By being wired for speed and innovation with support, mentoring, and a regular dose of inspiration, your skill sets will be applied to our aligned initiatives providing you the opportunity to quickly make a difference in our customers’ lives.

The Value You Deliver

· Providing technical leadership for the team and advice stakeholders on technical solution

· Developing and designing solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large volumes of data

· Assessing and researching current implementations of the platform and determining the course of action required to elevate the platform to meet customer needs

· Adopting a growth mindset and a fail-fast approach

· Collaborating with peers and management on process improvement ideas, policy and procedure enhancements, and opportunities to improve our customer's service experience.

· Participating in code review, unit testing and providing support on issues in non-prod or production

The Skills that are Key to this role

· You have the expertise and experience in designing and developing microservices which can handle high Transaction Per Second traffic.

· Experience in implementing Micro services Architecture & building / deploying highly automated, scalable and maintainable infrastructure.

· Experience in designing and developing apps with high throughput and low latency utilizing load balancing, caching, threading etc.

· Experience working with cloud computing strategies and architecture (Kubernetes, Amazon EKS etc.)

· You are experienced with a variety of modern programming languages and frameworks. Extensive experience working with Java, Spring boot, Oracle, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS.

· Experience in implementing DevSecOps practices and end-to-end CI/CD

· Working in an agile environment, hands on in JIRA and user story creation.

· Ability to identify areas of risk or potential problems and take action to mitigate them.

· Ability to lead through influence and know what is needed to drive effective decisions

· Ability to assess and plan project, stakeholders needs and manage deadlines, risks

· Ability to anticipate roadblocks, diagnose problems and generate effective solutions

· Ability to adapt in a changing environment and be effective in many different business settings.

· Ability to take initiative, define vision for betterment of products, and execute at high level of quality

The Skills that are Good to have for this Role

· Ability to plan and work with geographically spread-out teams

· Strong presentation and interpersonal skills

· Curiosity to constantly relearn/explore new processes/technologies

How your Work Impacts the Organization

Fidelity Brokerage Technology (FBT) enables business partners to win in their respective marketplaces by designing, building, and maintaining the technology platforms and products of Fidelity Institutional, Personal Investing and Workplace Investing. FBT is part of the Fund and Brokerage Operations & Technology (FBOT) organization and has over 2,700associates located in Boston, Covington, Denver, Merrimack, New York, New Jersey, Smithfield, Raleigh-Durham, Westlake, as well as India and Ireland. The FBT India Team is distributed across Bengaluru and Chennai.

The Expertise we are looking for

Education and Experience:

· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar subject.

· 10+ years of experience in information technology.

· Financial services experience, preferably in Brokerage Domain

· Certification in relevant technologies is preferred

Location: Chennai/Bangalore

Shift timings: 11:00 am - 8:00 pm