The Role
We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join a Fidelity Technology team and help deliver next-generation platform capabilities. In this role, you’ll be part of Platform Engineering, a centralized organization that builds scalable engineering solutions so product and application teams can stay focused on delivering business value.
Platform Engineering designs and delivers core capabilities across the engineering ecosystem, including optimizing CI/CD pipelines, building automation to enforce security and compliance standards, developing tools that extend cloud platform functionality, and eliminating manual toil through smart automation.
This position is based in Westlake, Texas and combines hands-on software development with technical leadership. You will play a key role in setting engineering standards, influencing platform architecture, and mentoring engineers across the team.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
A solid and strong foundation in software engineering – bachelor’s degree + preferred, 8+ years’ experience
Expert and comfortable with Python and or core Java technologies and frameworks like Spring Boot
Understanding of AWS or other cloud platforms and containerization technologies such as EKS and Docker
Experience with the following technologies: Spring, REST/Web Services, Maven, JSON, Apache Tomcat, Swagger, Message Queues
Identifies opportunities to improve maintainability of the application automation through testing
Comfortable with Design, development, and enhancement of Automation frameworks
Hands on experience in Selenium, Cucumber, FitNesse
Experienced with SQL databases (Oracle preferred) and hands-on experience is building complex SQL queries required for data validations
Identify opportunities to improve maintainability of application automation platform
Strong experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using tools like Concourse, GIT, Jenkins, Artifactory, Veracode, and uDeploy.
Passionate and committed to learning new things and developing with the latest technologies and frameworks
Work well in both a small agile team and independently, having a strong user focus
Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks at a given time
Experience utilizing AI capabilities to generate code and increase productivity.
Knowledge in creating agentic AI solutions
The Value You Deliver
Work with product management on requirements, decompose strategical outcomes into deliverable releases, and deliver solutions that meet or exceed customer expectations
Build scalable, resilient, cloud-based systems aligned with our long-term strategy
Provide outstanding support, including on-call support when necessary
Deliver platform strategy through high quality iterative releases continually providing features to stakeholders.
Mentor junior software engineers
The Team
This is a central team providing solutions that scale to benefit the enterprise. It is a focused and diverse team utilizing and evaluating different technologies and working closely with business partners to understand where our efforts can be best directed. We are focused on outcomes over team structure and organize to deliver on our top priorities. You should have a passion for technology tempered by a level-headed approach to problem solving, and experience with build and deployment software.
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 software engineering or related field
- 4 years of software engineering experience
- Expert in Python and/or core Java technologies
- Understanding of AWS or cloud platforms and containerization
- Experience with automation frameworks and tools
- Experience with SQL databases and complex queries
- Experience with CI/CD tools and practices
- Strong analytical and organizational skills
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.
