Principal Software Engineer

3 weeks ago

Galway, Galway, Ireland Fidelity Investments Full time

Job Description

We have an outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated Principal Software Engineer to work as a technical lead in the Fidelity Institutional Technology Group.

Our team is responsible for designing, developing & implementing high-performance, secure and scalable applications to support the Fidelity Institutional business. This role will form part of an exciting new group building innovative capabilities to support the rollout of new Digital Asset financial instruments in the Institutional market.

The Expertise We're Looking For

You have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent and you want to learn more
8+ years of software application design & development experience
Desired skills: Java, Spring/Springboot, Angular/Javascript/Typescript, RESTful Services, AWS Cloud, Dockerised frameworks, CI/CD
Knowledge of batch and event-driven technologies (Kafka) is an advantage
Passionate about good API practices, structured design, clean code, microservices
Experience with testing software, including writing automated unit, integration, performance, and end-to-end tests
Experience with Agile methodologies
Ability to effectively communicate with multiple stakeholders including technology partners and the business

The Purpose of Your Role

You will be a technical lead member of a co-located scrum team made up of other software engineers, quality automation engineers and systems analysts responsible for delivering key customer features
We are looking for an engineer who is versatile, always eager to take on new problems, share solutions and mentor junior engineers as we push the technology forward
You will help define, implement, and advance development practices, standards, and strategies, contributing to the modern engineering practices across our platforms and teams

The Skills You Bring

You care deeply about doing excellent work with excellent people
You have excellent analytical, communication, and organisational skills and the ability to run with multiple tasks at a given time
Ability to provide technical mentorship to the team
Help to improve engineering, architectural and coding standards
You thrive in a team environment, collaborating openly with colleagues on shared items of work and communicating effectively

The Value You Deliver

Deliver high quality, timely, cost effective and maintainable software solutions in an agile environment to meet functional and non-functional business requirements
Actively contribute to and promote engineering practices such as code and design reviews, source control strategy, environment strategy, and build and deployment pipelines
Work with product owner, peer technical leads and architects as required to influence technical improvements to the platform
Develop a keen understanding of the business domain and actively participate in technology discussions with business partners and other external parties
Investigate creative practices and share them with your team-mates

Principal Software Engineer