About The Company

Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) has the mission to catalyze innovation for Fidelity and our clients and supports the entire Fidelity businesses. Within FCAT there is a group leading the efforts on how Blockchain technology could both disrupt our current businesses and provide new opportunities for new products and services. We currently have a multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, researchers, designers, product managers, security and compliance experts taking on a number of opportunities.

Job Short Description

The Role

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Wallet team, you’ll get the opportunity to develop your skills and collaborate with engineers across Fidelity in a fun and dynamic environment. You will work closely with technical leaders and Architects to build a secure crypto platform utilizing modern software development practices. As a senior member of the team, you will mentor engineers on the best practices for Software development.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field required
• 8+ years’ experience in a Software engineering
• Experience building resilient services in Java
• Proficient in databases and SQL
• An understanding of microservice architecture and twelve factor app patterns
• Ability to build reliable software that can withstand unreliable environments
• Unit and integration test automation using JUnit
• 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
• Participate in engineering practices such as code and design reviews, environment strategy, and build and deployment pipelines
• Strong organization skills and attention to details
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms and containerization technologies such as Docker is a plus
• Experience with asynchronous workers and resilient messaging services such as SNS and SQS is a plus
• An understanding of the Bitcoin and Ethereum protocols is a plus

The Team

Fidelity Digital Assets℠, a Fidelity Investments Company, is developing a full-service enterprise-grade platform for storing, trading, and servicing digital assets, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Fidelity Digital Assets℠ adopts an entrepreneurial culture and startup approach while serving as one of the most innovative business units within Fidelity Investments. Our global, diverse team of hundreds of forward-thinking professionals lead with agility and creativity to build solutions that bridge the gap between traditional institutional investors and their exposure to digital assets. The firm’s tenure and experience across multiple business lines present our employees with unprecedented access to knowledge, technology, and resources that help our team reshape the future of finance.

Within Fidelity Digital Assets℠, the Wallet Team is responsible for the backend services and APIs that support digital assets transactions on networks such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The team will also lead tokenization efforts.

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.