Fidelity Investments · 17 hours ago
Director, Quant Development (Java)
Jersey City, NJ
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$126K/yr - $255K/yr
10+ years expFidelity Investments is seeking a Director-level Quant focused Technologist to lead the design, development, and evolution of their enterprise-scale Portfolio Risk and Analytics Platform. This role combines strong architectural judgment with advanced software engineering skills to create high-performance, data-intensive systems for risk computation and analytics.
Asset ManagementFinanceFinancial ServicesRetirementWealth Management
Responsibilities
Partner on the end-to-end design and hands on development of a next-generation portfolio risk platform, spanning backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and analytical tooling
Build high-performance, low-latency, and horizontally scalable systems capable of processing large volumes of financial data and supporting thousands of concurrent users
Design and implement robust computation frameworks for batch and real-time risk analytics, including large-scale simulations and scenario analysis
Develop production-grade services using Java, and Python for analytics, orchestration, and tooling
Design and optimize SQL-based and distributed data stores to support high-throughput analytical workloads and time-series risk data
Translate quantitative risk models and methodologies into well-engineered, production-ready systems in close partnership with quantitative researchers and risk managers
Build and optimize data ingestion, transformation, and aggregation pipelines for market data, positions, and reference data
Ensure numerical correctness, reproducibility, transparency, and auditability of risk calculations
Drive performance engineering initiatives, including concurrency model design, memory management, throughput optimization, and latency reduction
Engineer systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and operational resilience
Apply best practices for observability, monitoring, logging, and production support in a mission-critical environment
Act as a technical authority and senior individual contributor, influencing architecture, design standards, and engineering best practices across the team
Conduct detailed design reviews and code reviews, setting a high bar for engineering rigor and maintainability
Mentor and guide engineers through complex technical problems while remaining hands-on in implementation
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline
10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong track record of hands-on technical delivery with Java
Prior experience in risk platforms, analytics systems, or other high-performance financial systems
Expert-level Java development experience, building large-scale, distributed, data-intensive analytics, model integration and multi-threaded systems
Deep understanding of concurrency, synchronization, memory management and performance tuning
Advanced proficiency in SQL and relational data modeling, with experience tuning queries for large analytical workloads
Proven experience designing and building highly performant, data-intensive platforms that operate at scale
Strong background in distributed systems, including microservices architecture, service-to-service communication, and messaging frameworks (e.g., Kafka or similar)
Experience designing APIs (REST/gRPC) for both real-time and batch analytical consumers
Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, containers (Docker), and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
Familiarity with financial instruments across asset classes (equities, fixed income, derivatives)
Exposure to portfolio risk concepts such as VaR, stress testing, scenario analysis, sensitivities, and factor models
Experience working with large-scale market data and time-series analytics platforms
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
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