Principal Software Engineer/Developer

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Job Description:

Position Description: 

Designs and delivers large-scale, cloud-native applications that support critical business capabilities using modern full-stack engineering and service-oriented design principles. Applies scalable, decoupled, and event-driven architecture patterns to enable high-performance, resilient systems aligned with enterprise standards. Drives the adoption of disciplined Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and automated testing practices to ensure consistent quality, security, and production readiness across releases. Translates complex business objectives into well-structured technical solutions for major divisional initiatives, evaluating alternative approaches to solve domain-specific problems. Partners closely with architects and stakeholders to mitigate risk, improve delivery outcomes, and evolve platform strategy in support of long-term organizational goals. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Participates in architecture design teams. 

• Defines and implements application-level architecture. 

• Develops applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division. 

• Recommends development testing tools and methodologies and reviews and validates test plans. 

• Responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables. 

• Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems. 

• Establishes full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms. 

• Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget. 

• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects. 

• Plans and coordinates complex project schedules and assignments for multiple projects. 

• Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues. 

• Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives. 

• Advises senior management on technical strategy. 

• Mentors junior team members. 

• Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several divisional initiatives.  

• Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts. 

Education and Experience: 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) designing, developing, and maintaining customer facing Web applications and services in a financial or retail services environment. 

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) designing, developing, and maintaining customer facing Web applications and services in a financial or retail services environment. 

Skills and Knowledge: 

Candidate must also possess: 

• Demonstrated Expertise designing, developing, and maintaining customer facing Web applications and services using Java, Spring framework, Angular, and JavaScript; designing, developing, and implementing Cloud-based software solutions to service application clients according to RESTful Web services architecture using Spring framework; and designing, coding, and reviewing high quality software solutions for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based applications. 

• Demonstrated Expertise developing customer facing and secure Web applications according to Java or Spring frameworks using classical Model View Layer (MVC) architecture, Azure SSO, AWS KMS, and OAuth technologies. 

• Demonstrated Expertise developing distributed, low-latency, high-throughput systems with Cartographer, Mario, and Rushhour while adhering to Test Driven Development (TDD) practices within Agile methodology. 

• Demonstrated Expertise deploying and monitoring enterprise Web based services to provide the CI/CD of scalable multitiered Web applications, using Jenkins, NPM, and Maven (package management); performing version control (using Git), issue tracking (using Jira, Service Now, and Quality Center), and log tracking (using Splunk); providing CD according to Agile methodologies; and monitoring customer facing, business critical applications using Splunk and DataDog. 

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Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

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Category:

Information Technology

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