Fidelity Investments · 1 week ago
Principal Software Engineer (C++, Market Data, LINUX)
Jersey City, NJ
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$107K/yr - $216K/yr
10+ years expFidelity Investments is a leading financial services company, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their Trade Management Engineering group. This role involves technical leadership, mentoring peers, and gathering technical and business requirements to provide trading solutions for Fidelity’s Capital Markets division.
Asset ManagementFinanceFinancial ServicesRetirementWealth Management
Responsibilities
Responsible for translating program priorities and features into deliverable tasks
Lead the requirements gathering of new features and/or enhancements for our retail and institutional financial services platform
Collaborate with technology and business teams to deliver high-quality solutions for business problems
Bring curiosity and a questioning mind-set to work, asking always about the why and the value of new features/enhancements to the platform
Contribute to enhancing systems analysis practices across a global team
Monitor documentation standards and best practices
Qualification
Required
BS or Master's in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or Finance
10+ years of low latency systems development experience in C/C++ on Linux, with good understanding of UNIX IPCs
Very proficient in UNIX Shell scripting
Strong interpersonal, relationship management, and facilitation skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with business and technical team members across the organization
Ability to read/analyze code and logs for requirement gathering, defect/incident triage, and root cause analysis
Ability to understand and design the technology and software architecture of an application
Ability to quickly learn, adapt and strive to meet the needs of a fast paced, changing environment
Ability to multi-task effectively
Expert knowledge and experience of taking complex features and breaking them into clear and concise stories with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria
Experience analyzing, documenting, and modernizing legacy systems and workflows
Experience with minimum viable product definition and product backlog management
Ability to comprehend and articulate end-to-end system or financial workflows
Strong leader with a collaborative work style and hands-on team leadership
Ability to manage competing priorities and communicate impediments appropriately
Ability to establish and maintain trusted relationships between business partners and technology groups
Understands the value of trade off conversations with business partners
Experience working with QA and customer-facing resources to develop, document, and track use cases
Experience detecting and managing scope changes, as well as escalating and managing-to-resolution of issues
Effective management of project-related tasks, issues, and planning
Preferred
Knowledge of Equity/Options trading systems and market data is plus
Knowledge of time series database, KDB is a plus
Benefits
Comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
Market-leading retirement
Generous paid time off and parental leave
Charitable giving employee match program
Educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career
Company
Fidelity Investments
Fidelity’s mission is to strengthen the financial well-being of our customers and deliver better outcomes for the clients and businesses we serve.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (3)
2024 (8)
2023 (4)
2022 (6)
2021 (8)
2020 (30)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$152.82MKey Investors
Apple
2020-12-28Secondary Market· $2.5M
2018-01-14Secondary Market· $1M
2017-05-03Secondary Market· $12.5M
Leadership Team
Abigail Johnson
Chairman & CEO
Jeanmarie Ward
Senior Vice President of Architecture
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