Principal Software Engineer - Durham, United States - Fidelity Investments

Description

Job Description:

We're looking for a passionate Principal Software Engineer that has strong experience in front-end development to build a world-class product that supports the work across the enterprise. As far as skills, the candidate should be considered a Full-Stack engineer.

In this role, you would be working within an elite team of engineers that possess similar skills and abilities. This position, however, is for one of the most senior levels that we have on the team and your expertise should reflect that.

Our team works on a very exciting and highly visible application that is utilized across the enterprise. We're leveraging the latest technologies and are looking for an expert front-end developer and full stack engineer (with cloud experience a plus) to join us and to help us achieve our goals.

This is not an entry-level position. We expect that only top-tier developers to apply.

In this role, you would have good representation and say to shape the technical solutions to help us achieve our goals. We're looking for a strong candidate that can help bridge the gap between what we're trying to achieve and the plethora of technical solutions available today.

The Expertise You Have - Candidate Requirements

We're looking for someone that understands web standards, has an good understanding web APIs and knows about things such as: PWA, Vue 2, Vue3, Ionic Framework, NodeJS, Lambda or cloud functions, Postgres, PostgREST and a strong CSS background.

Candidates should possess the following:

• Understands various CSS methodologies
• Can take designs and implement pixel-perfect implementations using CSS
• Should be able to automate just about anything
• Has worked with PWAs before and understands service-workers
• Ample experience in Javascript as well as Javascript frameworks and libraries
• Candidate should understand the importance of componentization
• Experience using VueJS (or similar frameworks)
• Experience using Express
• API Experience ( RESTful, graphql etc.)
• Has leveraged Cloud Functions or Lambda Functions previously
• Has worked with Docker or containers
• Experience with Rxjs, Vuex, or Pinia and understands their use and importance
• Has worked with media queries and responsive designs
• An active Github account (bonus points for open source contributions)
  

Exciting Opportunities Within This Role

We're constantly pushing boundaries of what's possible. While we're looking for an experience front-end developer that's also full stack, this role provides ample opportunities for much more. In the past we've delved into areas utilizing artificial intelligence, Flutter, and much more.

While we are primarily focused on web-based application development, we're not opposed to look outside of these areas for newer solutions and approaches to achieve the goals in front of us.

In addition to this, every Tuesday is a full day of opportunity to learn, grow and experiment in any area of focus that you personally want to move towards. That leaves four days out of the week to crush goals we're targeting on the team.

What We Are Looking For In A Candidate

Sustaining great team culture is a top-tier requirement for our team as we bring in new team members. So, we're looking for someone that works well with others and can take and give criticism well. We're looking for someone that can help upskill junior developers and cordially help them improve over time. We're looking for someone that is ambitious, fair and motivated to make the best of their day-to-day work and is outcome driven.

About Our Team

• Our engineering team is innovative, diverse, passionate, and driven.
• We work in a very dynamic agile environment and value feedback from everyone on the team.
• We work together, plan together, design together and discuss architecture implementation strategy as a team.
• Everyone plays their part and values their work.
• Our team is feels like a family and we discuss ideas openly, come to a consensus and then swarm together. This allows us to achieve better results, faster.
  

About Our Domain

Develop and sustain a culture of engineering excellence by leveraging lean, agile principles and dev-sec-ops practices to ensure the continuous delivery of high quality, secure, dependable systems at a high velocity.

About Our Group: SWE Center of Engineering Excellence

Support the mission of the software engineering domain in building and sustaining a culture of engineering excellence by providing the expertise and building the capabilities that ensures we are clearly defining our expectations in the engineering principles, patterns, practices and processes that explain HOW we want to build, operate, function and continue to improve our level of engineering maturity.

If this sounds like a great fit for you, please apply We're looking forward to hearing from you

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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 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.

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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 , or by calling , prompt 2, option 3.