Job Description:

The Role

The Fidelity Asset Management Common Platform Solutions team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join its Search Platform squad. A successful candidate has technical depth and hands-on experience in software development with modern practices and tools in the DevOps toolchain and application hosting platforms.

The Expertise You Have

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field

8+ years of professional software development experience in a diverse set of distributed application development and middleware technologies such REST/SOAP Web Services, Java, SQL, PLSQL, Messaging, Kafka, JavaScript, Test Driven Development

Knowledge of Java/JEE and Spring Framework, Tomcat and Spring Boot

Knowledge of Python and/or Angular is a plus

Strong knowledge of design patterns

Experience in architecting, developing, delivering and maintaining complex enterprise systems on the cloud with HA and DR requirements

Strong systems administration or DevOps expertise

Proven experience with AWS or another cloud platform

Good knowledge of the following search aspects: Lucene, Solr, Elastic Search

Proven knowledge in most of the following: GIT, Jenkins, Maven, JUnit, Docker, JMeter, Artifactory, Nexus, Sonar, Veracode, Kubernetes, uDeploy

Monitoring automation systems such as CloudWatch and Datadog or Splunk

Knowledge of software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Experience in delivering software in the Agile environment

The Skills You Bring

You have the ability to effectively collaborate and lead in an agile team

You have excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

You have outstanding written and verbal communication skills

The Value You Deliver

Participate and lead formal reviews of application designs, business and functional requirements

Participate and lead application code and test code reviews with rest of the Scrum team

Has solid understanding of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning

Provide technical leadership on projects

Together with the team designing reliable, portable, accurate and trustworthy automated tests (unit-, integration, regression, UI), and in integrating them into CI/CD pipelines

Collaborate with team members on improving team's test coverage, release velocity and production health

Sharing operational expertise in a team targeting for Engineering and DevOps excellence

Forever learning and growing your skillsets to help build a well-rounded team

Automating yourself out of today’s job so that you can move on to the next big challenge

The Team

We are a Search Platform Squad at Common Platform Solutions of Technology Foundation at Asset Management division and we build the search-related services that serve many associates in the organization every day. The team’s focus is on delivering end-to-end search solutions where stability and security are our highest priority. We are passionate about simplifying complex problems by automating everything and monitoring the right things. We continue to push for quality and performance improvements while building new capabilities to ensure the best experience for our customers. We have made tremendous improvements in these areas! Are you willing to take more responsibility and become a part of a great team? If yes, what are you waiting for? Apply now!

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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.