Fidelity Investments · 2 hours ago
Principal Rust Engineer, Tech Lead (DeFi Yield Gen)
Jersey City, NJ
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$107K/yr - $216K/yr
8+ years expFidelity Investments is developing a full-service enterprise-grade platform for digital assets through its Fidelity Digital Assets® division. The Tech Lead / Principal Software Engineer will guide technical direction and work closely with teams to build a secure crypto yield generation platform, while mentoring engineers and ensuring high-quality software development.
Asset ManagementFinanceFinancial ServicesRetirementWealth Management
Responsibilities
Guide technical direction and work closely with Product Delivery and Architects to build a secure crypto yield generation platform utilizing modern software development practices
Combine engineering leadership with mentorship to enable the team to deliver to its full potential, raise the bar on quality, and accelerate innovation in DeFi
Define standards, lead code and design reviews, and ensure maintainable, modular solutions
Encourage appropriate use of TDD, advance test automation, and guide thoughtful test design to improve quality and reliability
Partner with Product to turn requirements into well defined, testable, prioritized work to enable predictable delivery
Mentor and develop engineers, sharing best practices and fostering a culture of continuous improvement
Design and implement highly optimized, low-latency software for automated trading systems and analytical platforms
Enhance and maintain the DeFi trading platform, ensuring robustness and scalability
Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to deliver custom software solutions for developing strategies for trading Digital Assets
Provide ongoing support for trading systems and research platforms
Qualification
Required
8+ years' of progressive experience in software engineering using programming languages like RUST and Python
Previous Tech Lead (or equivalent) experience owning technical direction and delivering production-grade solutions from design through deployment
Raise the bar on software quality by defining standards, leading code and design reviews, and ensuring maintainable, modular solutions
Champion a testing culture by encouraging appropriate use of TDD, advancing test automation, and guiding thoughtful test design to improve quality and reliability
Partner with Product to turn requirements into well defined, testable, prioritized work to enable predictable delivery
Mentor and develop engineers, sharing best practices and fostering a culture of continuous improvement
Design and implement highly optimized, low-latency software for automated trading systems and analytical platforms
Enhance and maintain the DeFi trading platform, ensuring robustness and scalability
Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to deliver custom software solutions for developing strategies for trading Digital Assets
Provide ongoing support for trading systems and research platforms
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field required
Ability to build reliable software that can withstand unreliable environments
Experience building and deploying applications using continuous integration pipelines and automated deployment tools such as Jenkins Core
Possess critical thinking skills to build end-to-end solutions
Passionate and committed to learning new things and developing with the latest technologies and frameworks
Work well in both a small agile team and independently, having a strong user focus
Strong analytical and communication skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks at any given time
Strong organization skills and attention to details
Preferred
Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms and containerization technologies such as Docker is a plus
Experience with asynchronous workers and resilient messaging services is a plus
Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases is a plus
Familiarity with L1 & L2 blockchains such as Ethereum, is a plus
An understanding of microservice architecture 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
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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
Recent News
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