Software Engineer - Digital Experience
Are you interested in serving the needs of millions of customers by building the best-in-class digital experience that helps them in financial planning, investing, and retirement solutions? Our chapter comprises teams that work on a wide range of applications and platforms like Fidelity.com, Fidelity Mobile Apps and Active Trader Pro®. We're looking for product-aware engineers who are passionate, inquisitive, and responsible individuals to help us on our mission to deliver the best omni channel (web, mobile, iOT) experience to our customers.
The Purpose of Your Role
Our teams build and contribute to Fidelity's digital presence. As a web developer, you will help us build the web user experience and the underlying platforms needed to support our digital presence. You'll work on building end to end features as part of our autonomous, cross functional teams. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to own entire features from concept to deployment working on cross-functional teams. You'll have the opportunity to contribute ideas to improve our products as well as develop your skills, learn new technologies and languages, and continue to learn. We're looking for highly motivated individuals who work well in a collaborative, iterative, and fast-paced environment.
The Expertise We're Looking For
You have a passion for technology and can navigate your way across complex and rapidly-changing landscapes by staying on top of latest trends and thrive by sharing knowledge.
Are a creator, a doer, and a disruptor who will help us solve real-life problems and meet real customer needs. You'll be helping us build things, taking an idea, and creating rapid prototypes that are shippable and learn from real-life feedback.
Are comfortable to be a self-starter, who actively challenges status-quo, is curious and not afraid to ask "Why" and "What if"?
Are experienced with the tools of the trade including a variety of modern programming languages and frameworks
Care about cycle time and use CI/CD practices, tools to rapidly deploy changes to customers while minimizing risk using practices like A/B tests, blue-green deployments, and feature toggles
Stay on top of Algorithms, Data Structures and Design Patterns and love the challenge of building highly scalable systems that can support thousands of transactions/sec.
Have a mindset of test first development and are experienced in modern test frameworks. We believe in testing and that quality is everyone's job.
Are data-driven and can measure, collect and use data to make decisions. We understand the value of intuition and the need to balance decisions accordingly.
Have strong communication skills and technical expertise to drive and participate in meaningful discussions.
The Skills You Bring
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Strong knowledge of HTTP based APIs, Networking and how the internet works.
- Strong JavaScript, Typescript, CSS, HTML & Browser Developer tools.
- Understand Async code (Promises, Callbacks, Event Loops)
- JS Tooling (ESLint, Webpack , Grunt, Gulp)
- JS MV* frameworks (Angular, React)
- Comfortable with Visual Design & Rapid Prototyping
- Expert at one IDE of choice (VS Code, WebStorm)
- Node.js frameworks NPM, Express
- Automation Tools/Frameworks (Mocha, Jasmine, Selenium, Protractor)
- Advanced Git skills
- API Design & Development, MicroServices Architecture.
- DevOps, Automated Testing and Continuous Delivery
How Your Work Impacts the Organization
We believe that diversity in background and experience will foster an inclusive and engaging work environment for our employees. This ultimately enables us to deliver a better product for our customers.
Being technically competent is only telling half the story. We believe that delivering the best possible customer experience requires an artful blend of human ingenuity and technology. While we value smart technologists, we are fanatics about our culture that promotes autonomy and leadership at all levels. People who are great cultural fits demonstrate curiosity to learn, are unafraid to break things, step up and take the lead, take ownership of their projects, and thrive by sharing knowledge.
- We share knowledge to empower and connect everyone
- We live outside our comfort zone.
- We believe life is too short to not love what you do
- We know amazing people create great opportunities
- We are customers.
- We favor autonomy and take ownership
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 FidelityCareers.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.