Principal Front End Developer

Job Description:

Experience Engineering – Principal Software Engineer

Are you interested in serving the needs of millions of customers by building the best-in-class digital experience that helps them in financial planning, investing, and retirement solutions? Our chapter comprises of people that work on a wide range of applications like Fidelity.com. We're looking for product-aware engineers who are passionate, inquisitive, and responsible individuals to help us on our mission to deliver the best omni channel experience to our customers.

The Purpose of Your Role

Our teams build and contribute to Fidelity Investments digital presence. As a developer, you will help us build a user experience and the underlying platforms needed to support our digital presence.

You’ll craft, own, build and support features at every stage of the software development lifecycle for a world class web experience. Your ideas will improve our products as well as develop your skills, learn new technologies and languages, and continue to learn. We're looking for highly motivated individuals who work well in a collaborative, iterative, mission critical, and fast-paced environment.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

You have a passion for technology and can navigate your way across complex and rapidly-changing landscapes by staying on top of latest trends and thrive by sharing knowledge.

Are a creator, a doer, and a disruptor who will help us solve real-life problems and meet real customer needs. You’ll be helping us build things, taking an idea, and creating rapid prototypes that are shippable and learn from real-life feedback.

Are comfortable to be a self-starter, who actively challenges status-quo, is curious and not afraid to ask “Why” and “What if”?

Are experienced with the tools of the trade including a variety of modern programming languages and frameworks

Care about cycle time and use CI/CD practices, tools to rapidly deploy changes to customers while minimizing risk using practices like A/B tests, blue-green deployments, and feature toggles

Stay on top of Algorithms, Data Structures and Design Patterns and love the challenge of building highly scalable systems that can support thousands of transactions/sec.

Have a mindset of test first development and are experienced in modern test frameworks. We believe in testing and that quality is everyone’s job.

Are data-driven and can measure, collect and use data to make decisions. We understand the value of intuition and the need to balance decisions accordingly.

Have strong communication skills and technical expertise to drive and participate in meaningful discussions.

The Skills You Have

• Ability to triage, complete root cause analysis, and be decisive under pressure
• Ability to creatively tackle new, exciting problems in a dynamic environment
• Ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups, both in person and virtually, in a constructive and collaborative manner and build and maintain effective relationships
• Positive relationship building, interpersonal and influencing skills
• Technical acuity and engineering mentality
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and driving automation.

The Skills You Bring

• 8+ years of software development experience
• You embrace customer-first mentality and enjoy developing user-friendly web applications that solve real life problems
• Strong experience with Angular 16, RxJS, Redux/NgRx and TypeScript
• Experience with micro front end architectural patterns.
• Expertise with test automation tools and frameworks e.g. Cypress, Playwright, Jest and Storybook.
• Critical problem-solving skills
• Passionate, opinionated about writing clean, testable, readable, and easily maintainable code with a test-first development approach
• Familiarity with developing features for our web experiences using Angular and Microservices in NodeJS/NestJS/GraphQL.
• Working with our product team to ensure we are building the right features based on scope and customer value
• Contributing back to the team by developing solutions that help improve developer efficiency or sharing knowledge about new techniques and technologies.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

We believe that diversity in background and experience will foster an inclusive and engaging work environment for our employees. This ultimately enables us to deliver a better product for our customers.

Being technically competent is only telling half the story. We believe that delivering the best possible customer experience requires an artful blend of human ingenuity and technology. While we value smart technologists, we are fanatics about our culture that promotes autonomy and leadership at all levels. People who are great cultural fits demonstrate curiosity to learn, are unafraid to break things, step up and take the lead, take ownership of their projects, and thrive by sharing knowledge.

Our culture code is simple

• We share knowledge to empower and connect everyone
• We live outside our comfort zone.
• We believe life is too short to not love what you do
• We know amazing people create great opportunities
• We are customers.
• We favor autonomy and take ownership

Certifications:

Category:Information Technology

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.