Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Core Custody
The Role
As the Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you will be responsible for a portfolio of applications and engineering associates assigned to the Core Custody Institutional team. This is an engineering manager role where you will work very closely with product owners, architects, and engineering teams to deliver high quality cloud-based technology solutions to meet business requirements.
You will translate vision, strategy, and business requirements into prioritized backlogs and technical deliverables. Lead with an enterprise perspective, engaging across business units to align priorities and shape shared roadmap. You will apply technologies and engineering methods to maximize operational capabilities.
You will maintain a strong team of high performers and invest in their career growth. Additionally, with the help of the technical lead on your team, you will ensure that modern software development best practices are followed.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
Batchelor's degree in computer science or related field required
7+ years of software engineering experience in building web applications that are scalable, resilient and secure
5+ years of experience directly managing a team of software engineers
Experience in hiring, motivating and retaining top talent
Experience in managing associates in remote locations
Software engineering background in frontend and backend services development
An understanding of microservice architecture and cloud-based deployments
Experience in modern software development practices such as infrastructure-as-code, test automation, CI/CD and containerization
You have a strong background in managing software delivery for mission critical applications
You have strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks at a given time
Collaborating with stakeholders to understand business requirements and deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations
Promoting engineering best practices, architectural standards and consistency
Exceptional mentoring and coaching skills, and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
The Team
Fidelity Digital Assets℠ Services, a Fidelity Investments Company, is developing a full-service enterprise-grade platform for storing, trading, and servicing digital assets, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Fidelity Digital Assets adopts an entrepreneurial culture and startup approach while serving as one of the most innovative business units within Fidelity Investments. Our global, diverse team of hundreds of forward-thinking professionals lead with agility and creativity to build solutions that bridge the gap between traditional institutional investors and their exposure to digital assets. The firm’s tenure and experience across multiple business lines present our employees with unprecedented access to knowledge, technology, and resources that help our team reshape the future of finance.
We are currently working in a hybrid model with some flexibility for remote working. However, Fidelity is gradually transitioning towards a fully in-office working model. We believe this will help strengthen our culture and enhance both the associate and customer experience. At present, this transition is expected from 2027 onwards, with no fixed timeline in place.
Category:Information TechnologySkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building scalable, resilient, secure web applications
- 5+ years of direct experience managing a team of software engineers
- Experience hiring, motivating, and retaining top engineering talent
- Experience managing associates in remote locations
- Software engineering background in frontend and backend services development
- Understanding of microservice architecture and cloud-based deployments
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, test automation, CI/CD, and containerization
- Proven experience managing software delivery for mission-critical applications
- Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders to define and deliver solutions
- Experience promoting engineering best practices, architectural standards, and consistency
- Exceptional mentoring and coaching skills and commitment to continuous learning
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.
