We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our Fidelity Health Benefits Platform (FHB) team within Workplace Investing (WI) . As a member of the FHB Product Development team, you will design, develop, and own scalable and resilient enterprise-grade solutions that powers FHB's platform capabilities. Using modern technology stacks and cloud-native architectures, you will build and continuously enhance systems aligning with enterprise software development practices. This role empowers you to contribute across the full development lifecycle while collaborating with multi-functional teams.
The Value You DeliverAs a Principal Software Engineer in Product Development, you’ll be at the forefront of driving the technical vision and implementation of our FHB platform. In a culture that values agility, and continuous delivery, you’ll play a key role in building scalable, resilient, and secure applications that meet the demands of a growing client base. You’ll have the opportunity to demonstrate your expertise across the full development lifecycle—from developing microservices and integrating APIs to deploying on modern cloud infrastructure—while collaborating with multi-functional teams to deliver impactful features and enhancements.
The Skills that are Key to this roleTechnical
- Technical Leadership: Defines technical direction and leads development efforts
- Advanced Java & Microservices: Designs and develops scalable microservices using Spring Boot
- Database Design - Advanced SQL, PostgreSQL, DB Design and analysis skills with focus on performance and scalability
- Platform Design: Designs scalable, secure, and high-performance systems for the product features following enterprise guidelines
- Cloud-Native Expertise: Deep understanding of cloud deployment models and infrastructure
- CI/CD Strategy: Owns CI/CD processes and ensures release reliability
- Security & Compliance: Leads secure development practices aligned with enterprise standards
- UI/UX & Frontend: Exposure to modern UI frameworks like Angular and TypeScript
- Messaging & Eventing: Proficient in event-driven systems
- Dev Assist Tools : Hands-on experience with tools like GitHub CoPilot, Gemini and has the ability to evaluate use cases across dev process
- Quality Ownership: Defines testing standards and drives quality initiatives
- Environment Management: Experienced in managing and optimizing mature product environments
The Skills that are Good to Have for this role
- Exposure to the US healthcare Payor domain is preferred
As a Principal Software Engineer at Fidelity Health Technology, you will play a key role in shaping the technical implementations for the capabilities you own in the FHB platform. Your work directly influences the scalability, performance, and reliability of our products, enabling seamless and secure experiences for our users. By leading feature development, mentoring team members, and contributing to architectural decisions, you help accelerate product development and ensure technical excellence.
The Expertise We’re Looking For- Bachelor's degree - Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems with 8+ years experience
- Proficiency in Java, REST API, Spring Framework , SQL
- Experience with enterprise grade distributed application and support
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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.
