Java Software Engineer

Software Engineer Dynamic Work schedule - This is 5 days on site a month- in the same week then the remainder of the month is working from home. If your candidate is not open to this please tell them they will not be considered. Fidelity determines the week they are working onsite, not the candidate.

Location- NC, NH, RI

Must Have: Looking for a Java backend developer - Java REST API services - person will play a key role in defining and executing on a new service oriented architecture built on REST and leveraging API management. Spring Boot framework - Backend Oracle

Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI) organization is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our new team within Stock Plan Services (SPS) Technology tasked with taking our market leading equity compensation platform to a global market. The person will play a key role in defining and completing a new service oriented architecture built on REST and maximising API management. This engineer will act as technical lead during the construction, execution and support of a multi year service delivery roadmap following agile development methodologies, modern architecture patterns, and the JAVA technology stack in support of program objectives. This role demands significant collaboration with members of various business and IT groups throughout the lifecycle of a typical project.

Stock Plan Services administers equity compensation programs on behalf of public and private companies offering various compensations programs such as: Employee Stock Purchase Plans, Restricted Stock Awards/Units, Stock Option Plans, Stock Appreciation Rights and Performance based Awards. Currently SPS services over 1.6M participants employed by over 300 clients and spread out in 150 countries. The business is looking to further expand in the international equity compensation market, focused initially on western European countries and companies based there. As part of this business initiative, we are extending our capabilities to enable a truly global platform.

Primary Responsibilities:

Ownership stake in building, managing and completing a service delivery roadmap

Champion the effort to create and maintain high quality service documentation

Write concise and clear technical specifications based on analysis of complex business requirements

Coordinate multiple development work streams through integration and ensures architecture is scalable and extensible

Define, maintain and support development environment while adopting industry standard processes and tools

Ensures code reviews, unit testing and integration testing is completed efficiently and effectively

Help coordinate the delivery of technical components across internal/external technical teams.

Work closely with business partners and management team in evaluating current systems and making decisions on future development.

Participate in development of long range planning for new projects and facilities.

Provide technical leadership on advice, training and technical support for various projects.

Provide technical leadership to more junior team members of the team

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree or higher

5-8 years of software development experience

5+ years total OO development experience

4-6 years of Java EE development experience

Investment/financial services experience is highly desired preferably within the equity compensation space

Skills and Knowledge:

A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts.

Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment while meeting desired results.

Curiosity to stay abreast with new and emerging technologies and concepts and to find ways to apply those to business problems.

Plays a key role in resolving technical roadblocks involving multiple technologies

Experience with Agile development methodologies such as SCRUM, Extreme Programming, TDD etc.

Strong verbal and written communications, must be able to actively engage other team members

Understanding of Agile development methodology and exposure to development technique using Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) and DevOps

Prior experience working with development teams in onshore-offshore model

Technical:

Experience or exposure to a number of the following concepts and technologies is desired:

Experience with API Manager tools

Understanding of and experience with Micro-Services Architecture concepts and emerging patterns such as APIs, JAX-RS, REST/JSON

Application development using Java EE, Spring framework

Relational databases like DB2 or Oracle as well as no-SQL databases

Event driver transaction processing using EAI, ESB and messaging patterns using technologies such as WSO2, ActiveMQ, Tomcat etc.

Security integration using oAuth and LDAP

CI/CD tools such as Maven, Git/Stash, Jenkins, Nexus, uDeploy, Docker etc.

Cloud deployment models

Why Fidelity?

A company that is committed to innovation and being an industry leader by investing in technology.

More than 12,000 technology professionals using an Agile methodology enterprise-wide.

Access to top-tier technology platforms, OS, and frameworks.

Challenging positions and numerous opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Competitive compensation and benefits package that includes bonus, health insurance, pension, life assurance and a variety of work/life programs.

Company Culture

At Fidelity, you can find it all here. We reward ambitious, passionate individuals with a work environment that fosters diversity, teamwork and collaboration as well as encourages innovative ideas and fresh thinking. We recognize the value that employees’ individual differences can contribute to the bright and strong future of our company.