The Role
Fidelity Investments is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building and testing high‑quality, scalable API and web applications. You will join the Financial Planning and Advice product area, where you will apply strong software engineering and test automation expertise to design, develop, validate, deploy, and maintain mission‑critical applications supporting Financial Planning and Advice.
In this role, you will contribute hands‑on to API and UI development, automated testing, CI/CD pipeline enablement, and DevOps initiatives. You will partner closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure high standards for quality, security, performance, and accessibility. You will also help drive best practices in engineering excellence, modern testing strategies, and continuous delivery.
Senior Software Engineers at Fidelity Investments demonstrate technical depth, leadership, ownership, and the ability to collaborate across teams while continuously learning and adopting new technologies.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
6–9 years of experience in software engineering with a strong emphasis on API and web application development and test automation
Financial services domain knowledge would be a plus
Core Technical Skills
Strong experience designing, developing, and testing RESTful APIs and modern web applications
Deep expertise in automated testing frameworks for API and UI validation, including: Cypress, Playwright Rest Assured JUnit, TestNG, Maven
Experience building scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks aligned with CI/CD pipelines
DevOps & Platform Experience
Hands‑on experience with DevOps tools and pipelines (Jenkins Core, GitHub Actions, monorepos, etc.)
Experience supporting build, test, and deployment automation
Proficiency with source control and branching strategies (GitHub, Bitbucket/Stash, Sourcetree)
Cloud experience preferred, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Technology Stack & Tools
Frontend & API: Angular, Node.js, TypeScript, Java
API tooling & validation: Rest Assured, Swagger/OpenAPI, Insomnia/Bruno
Quality & observability: Xray, Chaos testing, Splunk, Datadog
Data & persistence: SQL
Delivery & planning: Jira, Jenkins Core
Engineering Excellence
Strong understanding of accessibility standards and experience building and testing accessible web applications
Focus on deployment automation, orchestration, and release health
Experience managing code branches, merges, versioning, and pipeline troubleshooting
Ability to use testing and testability principles to influence better software design, security, and defect prevention
Experience building automated coverage across unit, component, integration, functional, and performance testing layers
Modern Engineering Practices
Exposure to emerging technologies and AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot)
Strong problem‑solving skills with an ownership mindset and ability to work independently under general direction
Proven collaboration skills to improve test coverage, release velocity, and production stability
Passion for delivering high‑quality, end‑to‑end customer experiences
The Team
The Engineering Excellence (EE) Chapter is part of Fidelity’s Wealth business unit and supports teams across the organization by providing deep engineering and quality expertise. The chapter partners with delivery squads to ensure products meet the highest standards for quality, security, stability, and customer experience.
The EE team is made up of multi‑skilled engineers who thrive on complex challenges, including automated and performance testing, chaos engineering, cloud migration and management, CI/CD implementation, security testing, and application development. Our mission is to elevate engineering practices and enable teams to build the right products the right way.
Certifications:Category:Information TechnologyPlease 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 or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 6-9 years of experience in software engineering
- Strong experience designing and testing RESTful APIs and web applications
- Deep expertise in automated testing frameworks
- Hands-on experience with DevOps tools
- Proficiency with source control and branching strategies
- Cloud experience preferred, particularly with AWS
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.
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