Job Description:

The Role

Fidelity Labs is looking for a Director of API and Data Engineering to join a newly founded startup. The startup’s focus is building innovative technology for financial advisors and their clients. This role will be hands-on player/coach responsible for the design, implementation, testing and delivery of world class real-time APIs and data pipelines. The Director of API and Data Engineer will work closely with technical leads, product managers and business analysts to move ideas from concepts to scale and bring these game-changing ideas to market.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Extensive software engineering and architectural experience

• Experience leading and managing agile engineering teams

• Expert knowledge of SQL, RESTful APIs, system design, data structures, and algorithms

• Expert knowledge of at least one application language: Ruby, Python, Java, NodeJS etc.

• Experience with microservice architectures and code-first data pipelines

• Passion for testing as a core part of the development process

• You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with high risks and high rewards

• Bonus points for experience with:

• Data pipeline and streaming technologies: AirFlow, Kafka or Kinesis

• Data Warehousing technologies: Snowflake, Redshift

• Data Querying technologies: Athena

• Non-SQL data stores: Elasticsearch, neo4j

• Cloud deployment: AWS, CI/CD

The Team

We are Fidelity Labs, Fidelity Investments’ in-house fintech incubator with a mission to build new businesses to drive growth for Fidelity. We seek to shape the future of our industry by building new products and services to improve the lives of the diverse set of customers, businesses and financial institutions we serve.

Fidelity Labs is a dynamic workplace that combines the best parts of startup life—building from scratch, adapting quickly, and moon-shot ambition—with the scale and stability of an industry leader. We provide a safe space for startup teams to explore new business ideas, quickly test them with customers, and scale the most promising concepts within an existing business unit, or as a new venture.

This opportunity is brought to you by Fidelity Labs. Learn more at labs.fidelity.com(opens in a new tab).

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Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award(opens in a new tab), we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2022. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

As a result of COVID-19, many of our associates are continuing to work remotely. When Fidelity employees eventually return to the office, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we’re calling “Dynamic Working(opens in a new tab).” 

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Leave of Absence/Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 2.