Principal Full Stack Engineer (Angular, Java)

Job Description

The Role

We (Fidelity Fund and Investment Operations Technology) are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join one of our agile development squads to provide software engineering excellence to our suite of corporate actions applications. We are in the midst of an exciting evolution to meet the strategic corporate actions needs of Fidelity. If you are customer obsessed and passionate about advocating for stability improvements, scalability, and enjoy supporting the breadth and depth of a technology organization where no two days are alike, this is an outstanding opportunity for you in a core Fidelity business.

The Purpose of This Role

Having strong technical chops, understanding our systems, and having empathy for our customers is a given. You have a proven track record of successfully delivering projects which had a positive impact on our systems, product, team, and customers. You have strong, educated and pragmatic opinions both on what we do and how we do it. You also have the pragmatism and experience to yield the floor and allow better ideas to prevail. You continue to grow your skills as a professional developer. Great products come from the fusion of rock solid engineering, clear product vision, and a hypersensitivity to the customer experience. You live our design and development methodologies, understand our business, and are on a continued pursuit to build empathy for our customers. While you are entrenched in the development, maintenance, and testing of one product area, your view expands to the product vertical your team operates in. You work with your team’s Architect to ensure sound technical direction.

The Value You Deliver

• Ability to quickly learn and analyze complex systems
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Strong financial and/or corporate actions knowledge
• Ability to work independently
• Excellent technical and communication skills
• Ability to create and maintain documentation wherever necessary
• Should be innovative and work as a collaborator with Scrum team
• Analysis, design, development, unit testing and execution, to strict coding standards

The Skills That Are Key To This Role

• Web front-end skills – modern Angular experience
• Strong Java / J2EE experience
• Solid background in Spring / Spring Boot / Hibernate frameworks
• Exposure to Oracle databases & RDS
• Solid SQL/PL-SQL background
• CI/CD tools such as Shell scripting, Maven, BitBucket, MEND, Git/Stash, Jenkins, Artifactory, uDeploy etc.
• Experience in cloud technology with a strong preference for AWS experience/certification
• Motivated/driven to get things done and deliver on team commitments
• Ability to work in a team and take direction well
• Self-motivated and responsive to supervision. Asks relevant questions
• Can adapt to changing conditions and coach others through change
• Possesses ability to communicate efficiently verbally and through written documentation
• Maintains a broad understanding of our systems, customers, and business goals

The Skills That Are Good To Have For This Role

• Embody and live the Scrum values of commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect in all interactions, both within and outside of the team
• Be a team member. Listen a lot. Ask questions to seek clarity. Take the floor when you have information, experience, or perspective to share. Communicate impediments as they arise
• A Scrum team collectively delivers on their sprint goals and commitments. All team members are expected to always be intimately familiar with, and working towards delivery of those commitments, never against
• In partnership with Product Management, actively seek to gain a deeper understanding of the business context under which your team operates. Leverage this understanding to present feature recommendations to your Product Owner
• In partnership with Design, continue to build empathy for the primary, as well as secondary, personas your vertical supports. Leverage this empathy to recommend small design changes to your Designer
• Complete modifications, refactoring, and bug fixes to existing functionality without the need for oversight
• Perform complex changes and complicated refactoring without the need for direction of an experienced team member
• While made up of many disciplines, the team delivers on commitments together. Perform documentation, design, and testing tasks as required by the team
• Actively participate and contribute to technical discussions and code reviews
• Evangelize and promote the successes and learnings of your team in formal ceremonies, such as sprint demos, as well as in casual conversation
• Write queries, scripts, and data upgrades
• Take point on supporting deployments and releases

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• 6-9 years of experience. Completed three or more projects on commercially available applications
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• A proven track record of success in working with dynamic technology focused project teams
• Ability to data-mine and troubleshoot issues
• Familiarity with SWIFT messaging structure a plus

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, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. 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.

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).

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

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 Accommodation Team by sending an email to