PRINICIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Fidelity Investments
Durham, NC

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The Role

Are you interested in serving the needs of customers by building a best-in-class digital experience that helps novice investors with financial literacy, investing, and gaining confidence? Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build creative digital solutions and capabilities for our Plynk mobile app to ensure investing is inclusive for all audiences by removing barriers that prevent participation. We are redefining the financial services industry by changing the way we work and being customer obsessed! At FCAT, we use emerging technologies and human-centered design to create visionary products and services that improve people's financial lives. As the innovation engine for Fidelity Investments, we provide expertise to the rest of the firm on new tools and techniques, while also incubating potential new lines of business.

The Expertise You Have

  • BS or above in Computer Science or related field
  • Working experience in an Agile environment
  • Knowledge of financial services brokerage operations, services and technology systems preferred
  • Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of software development experience or Master's degree in Computer Science with 8+ years of experience in software application design & development; mobile development
  • Rapidly develop enterprise software based on requirement documents, prototypes, or verbal requirements
  • Learn and adopt new concepts & technologies quickly and implement them effectively in projects
  • Demonstrated technical leadership experience.
  • Work across peer groups to resolve and understand complex technical/design issues.

The Skills You Bring

  • DE designing, developing, and integrating Java Web services using Spring Boot and Spring Security according to Service Oriented and micro-services architecture; authenticating applications using OAuth/JWT, Open ID Connect, JSON Web Token and designing and implementing Single Sign-On (SSOs)
  • Experience in designing and building high volume, low-latency, and concurrent Cloud-hosted API based applications
  • Experience in designing/implementing zero trust applications to ensure proper authentication, authorization, and access controls using secure frameworks like SPIRE Agents, Envoy Proxy, and Open Policy Agents
  • Experience with cloud computing environments (AWS), applications and tools
  • Experience with iOS and Android development in a hybrid tech stack (Ionic/Capacitor/Cordova) Client-Side development - Angular, NgRx, CSS, HTML
  • Experience with document-based databases like MongoDB and relational databases like MariaDB and/or other relational/non relational database environments
  • Experience with ETL strategies, design, and development
  • Implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for Web services using Jenkins and Concourse deploying applications in a DevOps environment
  • In-depth knowledge secure coding standards and practices
  • Code Quality/Coverage Tools (Sonar or equivalent) Test/Automation (Jest, Cypress, Cucumber, or any similar framework)
  • Strong collaboration skills to work with multiple teams across the organization
  • Knowledge of cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Certifications a plus
  • Experience with logging and monitoring tools; DataDog, Splunk, etc. for analysis, observability, and alerting

The Value You Deliver

  • Defining and developing mobile applications for our Digital Brokerage Services products that delight our customers
  • Leading, supporting, and guiding team members in design reviews, code reviews, and standard methodologies
  • Ensuring designs meet performance, security, usability, and scalability requirements
  • Mentorship of junior team members
  • Working as part of a highly collaborative team to deliver an outstanding experience for our customers

The Team

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will collaborate with product owners, developers, architecture, and application teams to build technical designs that simplify investing within our digital experience!

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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.

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 [email protected], or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.

Posted 2026-05-12

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