Job Description
Job Description
Position Principal Software Engineer – API TechLead (Level 6)
The Team
Come join Fidelity in 2021 as we have our Better Way of Working! Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to join Client Solutions Technology chapter focused on greater delivery, efficiency, and quality. Our engineering team is innovative, diverse, passionate, and self-driven. We work in a very dynamic agile environment. You will work in a Squad focused on enabling Wealth Management business in Fidelity through Flexible, Scalable platforms and report to a Chapter Leader (your manager), whose primary focus is to help you develop in your career and skills as we drive towards increased automation, continuous delivery with quality. Chapter Leaders drive the “how”: skills & mastery, while your Squad drives the “what”. This is the next evolution of Agile development!
The Expertise You Have
Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or closely related field; OR a Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a closely related field
10+ years of hands-on experience with designing and building large scale web and back office applications
5+ years of experience developing web services (SOAP/REST) on Java frameworks such as Spring MVC, Java EE
Hands-on project experience building server-side Java web services and enterprise integration business logic frameworks
Experience building multi-threaded batch applications (Spring Boot/Spring Batch)
Experience building modern REST APIs in Java EE container hosted applications (Jetty, Tomcat with Spring MVC or JAX-RS or Jersey)
Experience with database frameworks JDBC or JDBI. As well as familiarity with object-relational mapping frameworks like Hibernate, iBatis.
Legacy knowledge of Java EE containers (BEA, JBoss)
Legacy knowledge creating and consuming SOAP-based web services and Service Oriented Architecture
Legacy knowledge of Message Bus (Message Broker, IBM Enterprise Service Bus)
1+ year Hands-on project experience building applications hosted in AWS (configuring, deploying, managing, monitoring) services and distributed applications.
Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
CloudFormation, DynamoDB, Serverless, Lamdbas, Step Functions, SQS, Kinesis.
Understand how to troubleshoot issues in a cloud only environment.
Hands-on project experience with test automation frameworks Protractor, Cypress, Jest, Junit, REST Assured, Cucumber
Hands-on project experience creating new CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins or equivalent. Experience automating code quality metrics using tools like Sonar and Veracode.
Experience documenting REST APIs and code generation Open API standards and tools (Swagger). Understands good REST API design practices.
Solid knowledge of network protocols. Comfortable connecting disparate systems built in multiple languages, multiple operating systems, on-premise, or cloud. Able to identify and troubleshoot network communication problems outside of the application.
Demonstrated leadership experience as a Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Architect in previous roles.
Experience architecting and implementing customer-facing user interfaces, REST services, third-party integrations, tools, in previous full-stack development roles.
Proven problem-solving abilities and discerning application of software engineering best practices (e.g. design patterns, process improvements, test frameworks, CI systems, etc.)
Experience architecting systems using high-scalability datastores.
Experience breaking down vague agile business stories into actional epics of technical stories for consumption by engineers working in time zones around the clock.
The Skills You Bring
You are:
Obsessed with creating the best end-to-end experience
Owns the outcome by taking personal accountability for delivering strong results
Passionate about Test Driven Development, developing robust software, writing testable and maintainable code
Passionate and results oriented technical leader
Keenly interested in learning new technologies and their adoption