Job Description:
Principal Software Engineer
The Role
The Advanced Strategies & Research Technology Team in Fidelity's Asset Management organization is an embedded team passionate about unlocking the potential of new technologies, techniques and datasets, to assist our Investment Professionals in generating alpha for our investment products and customers.
The role is ideal for someone with an enterprise development background, with a strong technology, coding and data skills, looking to operate in a less constrained environment, as part of an accelerated development team.
The role is ideal for a skilled technical leader with strong design, teamwork and influencing skills.
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Ideally the candidate is a full stack, but this role will be primarily focused on processing and generating Analytics from structured and unstructured datasets with the ability of parallel processing potentially in the cloud.
The ideal candidate will quickly adapt to new technologies and a go-getter, with quantitative concepts and data. Willing to be in the on-call rotation.
The Team
The team is comprised of a diverse set of technology professionals including application developers, database engineers, data scientists and tool prototypes with quantitative backgrounds who work collectively with our business partners to take ideas from a whiteboard, through prototypes that garner feedback to be rapidly deployed to our users, all the way through to integration with enterprise applications both on prem and on the cloud.
THE EXPERTISE WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a technology related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required.
- Strong Experience with object orientated programming, with projects completed using many of the following technologies including Python, RDBMS, and AWS
- Knowledge of Cloud computing concepts (AWS) and using CI/CD tools
- Experience in Building Angular / React SPA applications
- 10+ years of enterprise development and a desire to work on a fast-paced development team.
- Experience of balancing multiple tracks concurrently is a must
- Experience in planning, designing, leading, and executing technical solutions and improvements.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with on call responsibilities.
The Skills You Bring
- You have a track record of engineering experience by processing large datasets and building scalable applications and Rapid Prototyping
- You have a background with enterprise development and a consistent record rapidly bring projects from inception to delivery in ambitious timeframes. Using Python and RDBMS, SQL, PL/SQL
- You have solid experience in Object Oriented Programming in Python or C# or Java
- You have experience in Angular / React and building SPA applications
- You have a strong background with enterprise development and a consistent record rapidly bring projects from inception to delivery in ambitious timeframes. Using Java or C#, Python, Angular 2.0+, MVC frameworks
- You have solid experience in developing custom Data Pipelines to extract data, map data, transform data, and to load data in various data stores like RDBMS, Oracle, S3, PL/SQL, and / or shared drives.
- You have solid experience in Python and libraries such as Pandas / Numpy, etc. or Spark
- You are familiar with extracting data from REST APIs
- Your demonstrable experience developing scripting in Linux and Windows
- Experience with migrating applications to AWS (Cloud) will be an added advantage.
Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
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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. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.
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.