Principal Software Engineer/Tech Lead. UI

Job Description:

PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER/ Tech Lead, UI

The Role

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.

Our goal at FDA’s Core Custody team is to design and build a suite of digital asset services and investment applications to serve the unique and varying needs of institutional investors. This is a hands-on role where you will set the technical direction for the team and write high-quality code. As a Principal Software Engineer and tech lead, you will lead the team from a technical perspective, creating an environment of innovation and engineering excellence. You will work closely with our business development, client services and UX design teams to build intuitive and functional user interfaces. In your tech lead capacity, you will work closely with architects to develop secure, scalable, resilient cloud-based services. As part of this, you will use your expertise to understand and influence architectural decisions. As the most senior technical member of your team, you

The Expertise You Have
• Expert in Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, RxJS, HTML, and CSS/SCSS
• Strong understanding and ability to implement State Management patterns such as NgRx/Redux
• Expertise with Test Automation Tools and Frameworks e.g. Cypress, Playwright
• Passionate about customer experience and good UX design
• Experience consuming REST APIs
• Unit, integration and E2E test automation
• Experience with build, continuous integration, and delivery (CI/CD) processes and tools (e.g. Git, Jenkins, etc) & package managers such as NPM
• Understanding of core Java technologies
• An understanding of microservice architectures and twelve factor app patterns
• Preferred experience with AWS or other cloud platforms and containerization technologies such as Docker

The Skills You Bring
A strong foundation in design, development and implementation of user interfaces, portals and customer facing websites, preferred 7 years’ experience
• A leader that advances the engineering practices of the team, including coding conventions, product design, automated build environments and deployment pipelines
• Ability to lead and inspire technical teams, setting and driving standards of engineering excellence, comfortable building trust within teams, delegating tasks and ensuring teams meet their goals
• Welcomes ownership and responsibility for applications and technical roadmaps in their space
• Able to build reliable software that can withstand unreliable environments
• Proven and demonstrable ability to cut through ambiguity to quickly identify solutions
• Possess full-stack software development knowledge and critical thinking skills to design end-to-end solutions
• Proven problem solver who consistently identifies the correct solution, and displays an ability to take tasks of all levels from inception and with a minimum of input, to timely and successful completion
• Able to work well in both a small agile team and independently, having a strong user focus
• Excellent analytical, communication, and organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks at a given time
• Passionate and committed to learning new things and developing with the latest technologies and frameworks

Company Overview
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 leverages the operational and technical expertise of the broader Fidelity organization with the unique capabilities of blockchain technology to deliver a completely new offering for institutional investors. Fidelity is one of the world’s largest and most diversified financial services providers with more than $7 trillion in client assets under administration.
We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. Fidelity established an Ireland presence in 1996 and we currently employ 1,000 staff across IT and shared services, with offices in Dublin (City West) and Galway (Parkmore East).
For information about working at Fidelity, visit www.fidelityinvestments.ie.

Why Fidelity Digital Assets?
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 130+ 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.
Learn more at http://fidelitydigitalassets.com.

Category:Information Technology