Fidelity is hiring a Principle Software Engineer for its Fidelity Workplace Investing - API Market Technology Center of Excellence to build and support outstanding products for its highly business critical API Gateway. Our engineering team is innovative, diverse, passionate and self-driven. We work in a very dynamic agile environment.
The Purpose
Lead Workplace Investing in crafting a modern, digital API ecosystem delivering better customer experiences faster, enabling expansion to new markets and providing access to legacy and third-party systems.
As a lead engineer on the team, your primary role will be building, testing, and engineering REST APIs on our API marketplace platform which is hosted on Open source api gateway. You are encouraged to quickly gain an understanding of all the components of our platform to be able to lead and chip into strategic roadmaps and initiatives related to the improvement, maintenance, and support of the platform.
The Team
Fidelity's Workplace Investing (WI) Technology team designs, develops, implements and supports WI's suite of Internet products and services. Drive WI API Strategy forward working with enterprise teams & product partners with a dedicated commitment to innovation.
Required Expertise
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- 8+ years of development experience (currently hands on) in Java, Spring MVC / Spring boot / Web Services (REST) and configuring web containers.
- Ability to make significant contributions to our technology platform
- Working Knowledge of API management software such as Apigee
- API design using SwaggerHub to Build, Collaborate & Integrate APIs
- Understanding & hands on knowledge of docker, cloud-computing / cloud services platforms (e.g., AWS or Azure) and API Gateway
- Able to clearly articulate API strategies to all partners
- IDE's Spring Tool Suite, and Eclipse, within a UNIX and Windows environment.
- Application build, deploy using Continuous Integration/ Deployment (CI/CD) tools -- Jenkins, Maven, uDeploy, etc.
- Leadership: Team player, self-starter, collaborative, innovative, eager to learn every day. Agile/Scrum methodology
Responsibilities:
- Assist in coordinating multiple development work streams through integration and ensure architecture is scalable and extensible.
- Define, maintain, and support Java development environment and best practices, such as Maven, Sonar, and other Open-Source tools.
- Assist in identification, isolation, resolution, and communication of problems within the production and nonproduction environment and perform troubleshooting.
- Deliver API Platform capabilities using open-source Envoy, Microgateway, JWT, Key Management, External Identity Mapping, Datadog, Security & many more.
- Create API common framework.
- Migration of existing APIs to Kubernetes/Azure
- Perform code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing using Open-Source frameworks.
- Provide mentorship to junior team members.
- Contribute to continuous process improvement initiatives.
- Driving new API products available in the marketplace.
- Consumer adoption of new API products
- Decommissioning legacy assets in line with enterprise goals and objectives
- Responsible for WI infrastructure needs as it relates to the API Platform offering from Enterprise Cloud computing
The Value You Deliver
- Understand the leadership vision and execute on that vision.
- Help strengthen further the culture of innovation by setting examples
- Find creative ways to get things done, and do them right
- Develop a culture of outstanding software engineering practices
- Exercise a passion for keeping your knowledge up to date with the latest and greatest.
- Help maintain the high level of integrity in the team
- Take ownership and accountability for determining what needs to be done
- Establishing an API marketplace for Fidelity and trusted external partners
- Providing unified experience to access technical assets and resources
- Implement consistent standards for API development, deployment
- Coordinate publishing and consumption in the API Marketplace
- Mandate versioning and adoption policies
How Your Work Impacts the Organization
Our ever-evolving technology stack ensures a phenomenal learning culture in the team. We are always exploring new technologies and new ways to continually provide value to our customers. This team has a direct and positive impact on Fidelity's customers.
Company Overview
At Fidelity, we are focused on making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FTSjobs.com.
Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer
Information Technology
Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).
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.