Principal Full Stack Engineer (Python)

Key Skills

AngularJS, Apache Kafka, AWS, Azure, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, CSS, Data science techniques, Django, Flask, Git, HTML, Java Programming, JavaScript, Jenkins, Node.js, PLSQL, Python Programming, SQL, TypeScript

Job Description

The Role

In this role on the quantitative research engineering team you will produce high-quality, testable code for research platform and efficiently deploy them onto AWS. We want you to be motivated by having the autonomy to lead, build and craft phenomenal solutions. We advocate for leadership at all levels and this role is an excellent fit for those who demonstrate leadership and have a continuous technology progressive mentality. We want engineers who are brave to break things, who step up and take lead /ownership of their projects, and those that thrive by sharing knowledge.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 8+ years’ experience as a full stack software engineer, delivering software using agile development practices
• Exposure to coding in more than one programming language. Our full stack engineers work across a range of client, middle tier, messaging, caching and database technologies including Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL and PL/SQL
• Python programming and familiarity with core data science libraries
• Understanding different package managers and test frameworks
• Knowledge in python web frameworks like Flask, Django is a plus
• Object Oriented development experience, ideally with Python and Java
• Exposure to Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices
• Exposure to test automation frameworks that support all types of testing (unit, component, integration, system etc.) executed through CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Python and one or more of the following: Angular, Node.js, RESTful APIs, HTML, JavaScript or CSS
• Experience working on AWS/Azure cloud environment and proven understanding of CI/CD & DevOps
• Familiarity with quantitative techniques and methods, statistics, econometrics – including probability, linear regression, time series data analysis and optimizations is a plus
• Bachelor's degree (or above) in either Engineering or Computer Science related field
• Awareness of event-based systems, functional programming, emerging technologies and messaging frameworks such as Kafka and EMS.
• Demonstrate a test-driven approach to developing software and can build or contribute to automated testing frameworks that can detect any anomalies in functionality, performance and integration.
• Experiences in some of the following technologies continuous integration/delivery tools such as GIT, Cloudbees Jenkins, uDeploy and/or Pivotal Concourse.
• Lead Software engineers encouraging autonomy, mastery and purpose in their work.
• Experience building enterprise cloud enabled distributed systems.
• Know, understand and promote Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery engineering practices.
• Document design options and decisions, and present these in an organized manner to technical as well as non-technical audiences
• Strong contributor with a collaborative work style in building, crafting and reviewing code
• Design & develop capabilities used by Investment Research Professionals
• Key member of the engineering team actively innovating and creatively experimenting so that we may better support business needs
• Bring curiosity and a questioning mind-set to work, asking always about the “why” and the “value” of an activity or task

The Team

Asset Management Technology (AMT) provides worldwide technology and support to all the Investment Management, Research, Trading, and Investment Operations functions. We are seeking a Principal, Software Engineer to join our Quantitative Research & Investing Technology organization. This role will be part of our Quantitative Engineering team, which is responsible for architecting, developing, and maintaining a new quant research oriented meta-data programming language.

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Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2023. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

At Fidelity, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we’re calling “Dynamic Working”. Most associates will have a hybrid schedule with a requirement to work onsite at a Fidelity work location for at least one week, 5 consecutive days, every four weeks. These requirements are subject to change.

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.