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Fidelity Investments

Principal Software Engineer (Java, Cloud, CI/CD)

Fidelity Investments, Merrimack, NH, United States

Job Description:

The Role
Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI) organization is seeking a top-tier software engineer to join our team within Stock Plan Services (SPS) Technology tasked with taking our market leading equity compensation platform to a global market. The engineer will provide technical leadership during the construction, execution and support of a multi year service delivery roadmap following the agile development methodologies, modern architecture patterns, and the JAVA technology stack in support of program objectives. This role demands significant collaboration with members of various business and IT groups throughout the lifecycle of a typical project. We're looking for software engineers that enjoy a collaborative environment and have a passion for releasing high quality software through iterative software development practices.

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree or higher

  • 10+ years of software development experience

  • 8+ years total OO development experience

  • 8+ years of Java EE development experience

  • Experience working in a scaled agile delivery model

  • Investment/financial services experience is highly desired



Technical Skills

  • Server-Side technologies including Java 8, J2EE, JSP/JSTL, Servlet

  • Domain Driven Design (DDD)

  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment using Git, Jenkins, Docker, Udeploy

  • Client Side technologies including JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, JQuery, Angular 2, Node JS, HTML5, Spring MVC, Spring Core, XML Integration with SOAP WebServices, Spring-WS, REST Services, Jersey 2, Jackson 2, Apache Camel

  • Development tools like Eclipse, IBM RAD, Spring Tool Suite, Web Storm

  • Cloud technologies including Docker, Azure, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Rancher

  • Building SOAP and REST services using JAX-RS, Jersey, Swagger, Spring and Jackson frameworks

  • Building test suites using Junits, Mockito, Jersey Test, SOA Test. Cucumber, Karate
    Developing distributed applications with multi-site multi-node deployments

  • Developing applications to be deployed in clustered environments on IBM Websphere and Tomcat servers

  • Developing applications using in-memory and distributed cache technologies like EhCache and IBM XtremeScale.

  • Security for SOAP and REST services using SAML 2.0 and OAuth 2.0 technologies

  • Experience working on modern transactional and data processing applications

  • Excellent understanding of Relational Databases, SQL, and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)

Primary Responsibilities

  • Build and lead the definition of system architecture, detailed solution design and document complex solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data.

  • Care about cycle time and use Continuous Integration and Deployment (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.

  • Create and maintain high quality service documentation

  • Write concise and clear technical specifications based on analysis of complex business requirements

  • Have effective communication skills and technical expertise to drive and participate in significant discussions.

  • Coordinate multiple development work streams through integration and ensures architecture is scalable and extensible

  • Define and support development environment while adopting industry standard methodologies and tools

  • Ensures code reviews, unit testing and integration and performance testing is completed efficiently and effectively and guide the technology delivery framework to be entirely automated Testing and deployment.

  • Align with business partners and management team in evaluating current systems and making decisions on future development.

  • Mentor and direct team members on technology and specific design; Own issues and provide end-to-end solutions.

  • Continuously evaluate and prototype new technologies within developer & test community to understand business value and feasibility.

  • Digital mindset, and fluent across technology components including API Services development and consumption using modern frameworks and open source technologies.


The Team

Stock Plan Services (SPS) administers equity compensation programs on behalf of public and private sector companies offering various compensations programs such as: Employee Stock Purchase Plans, Restricted Stock Awards/Units, Stock Option Plans, Stock Appreciation Rights and Performance based Awards. Currently SPS services over 1.6M participants employed by over 300 clients and spread out in 150 countries. The business is looking to further expand in the international equity compensation market, focused initially on western European countries and companies based there. As part of this business initiative, we are extending our capabilities to enable a truly global platform.

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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, 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 hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.

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 accommodations@fmr.com.

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