Principal- Software Engineering (Digital Assets Tech Lead)

Job Description:

Job Title : Principal- Software Engineering (Digital Assets Tech Lead)

The Purpose of this Role 

As a Tech Lead on the Wallet team, you’ll get the opportunity to mentor developers, develop your skills and collaborate with engineers across Fidelity in a fun and dynamic environment. You will work closely with technical leaders 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 of Software development. 

The Value You Deliver

·       Consistently making culture choices that positively impact all of engineering. Engineering excellence is a collective set of choices we make as technologists, whether to increase code coverage or ship a product, investing in developer productivity vs saving $$$.

·       You do not compromise for the sake of social acceptance and demonstrate conviction and drive to operate in highly ambiguous situations thriving in uncertainty while keeping your eyes on the long-term vision.

·       Drive technical discussions, arbitrate and recommend optimal path forward in a room of highly opinionated engineers that may or may not agree with you.

·       Use your experience and knowledge to influence better software design, promote proper Software Engineering and bug prevention strategies, testability and security

·       Actively participate in the development process through writing and maintain application features and automated tests including unit tests, component tests, integration tests, functional tests,

·       Support the team in maintaining CI/CD pipelines

·       Collaborate with team members on improving team's test coverage, release velocity and production health

·       Participate in application code and test code reviews with rest of the Scrum team

·       Contribute to own entire features from concept to deployment working on cross-functional activities

·       Contribute ideas to improve our products as well as develop your skills, learn new technologies and languages, and continue to learn

The Expertise and Skills You Bring 

·       Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field required 

·       10+ years’ experience in a Software Engineering using Java and

·       Experience building resilient enterprise applications

·       Strong proficiency with both services and web technologies

·       Proficiency databases and SQL 

·       Strong understanding of OnChain – OffChain interactions

·       Proficiency with microservice architectures and twelve factor app patterns 

·       Ability to build reliable software that can withstand unreliable environments 

·       Secure design and coding practices.

·       Strong cloud expertise with public cloud and proven track record of designing and delivering cloud native applications

·       Very strong proficiency in enterprise design patterns.

·       Proven track record with E2E Application design

·       Strong proficiency with enterprise application integration patterns.

·       Proficiency with web development using Angular or similar UI frameworks.

·       Strong ability to drive quality strategy across the test portfolio and implement best practices for developer led automation from the groud up.

·       Passionate and committed to learning new things and developing with the latest technologies and frameworks 

·       Ability to evaluate technology choices and recommend engineering implementations for the same that are best in class.

·       Ability to drive development standards across the team

·       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 

·       Drive 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

·       Expertise with EKS

·       Experience with asynchronous workers and resilient messaging services on the cloud.

·       Influencing skills to work with product and architecture teams to create the best engineering solutions.

·       Strong team player who can foster a great engineering culture

·       Ability to bring the industry best practices to the team

Nice to Have Skills

·       Experience with blockchains including Ethereum, Bitcoin 

·       Expertise programming solidity smart contracts

·       Experience with off-chain/on-chain interactions

·       Experience with multi-sig wallets

·       Experience in using various web3 development frameworks and tools like Hardhat, Truffle, slither

·       Strong understanding of symmetric and asymmetric key cryptography

·       Working experience / Strong understanding of Transaction Signing

·       Strong proficiency of tools in the blockchain ecosystem.

·       Understanding of various HSM or key custody solutions would be nice.

·       DApp development using Java tech stack

How your work impacts the Organization

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 embraces an entrepreneurial culture and startup mindset 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 Engineering 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. 

The Expertise we’re looking for

·       10+ years of Software Engineering experience in a hands on manner with enterprise projects

·       At least 2+ years of leading engineering efforts as a Tech Lead in agile teams

·       Strong Cloud Expertise (AWS)

·       A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software engineering or related field

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