Westlake, TX, US
13 days ago
Staff Software Engineer
Job Description:

The Role 

 

Platform engineering is looking for a senior front-end engineer to join our web platform team.  As a staff software engineer, your mission is to empower engineers at Fidelity working within our Typescript monorepos to deliver innovative features with high velocity and quality by providing foundational libraries, frameworks, and tools for development, testing, and release. With a focus on web-specific technologies and integrations, you will drive implementation and standardization of shared tools across Fidelity in a hands-on manner. 

 

The Team 
 

The workspace web platform team focuses on creating a unified developer experience across Fidelity and will be involved in the hands-on creation of standardized tools for testing frameworks, developer environments, bundler and build system implementations, CI jobs, client libraries for observability and experimentation, editor integrations, and REST + GraphQL implementations.  Our goal is to create an environment that empowers productive development without compromising quality.  The team will directly impact the productivity and experience of front-end developers across multiple product areas. 

 

The Expertise and Skills You Bring 

MUST have 5+ years hands on experience as front-end software engineer using modern JavaScript frameworks. 

5+ years of hands-on experience in solution architecture, analytics, design, and development of enterprise solutions in multiple technology platforms, frameworks, and languages. 

1+ year(s) of experience with Nx workspaces and strong familiarity with monorepos 

2+ years experience or solid working knowledge of current DevOps practices and current CI + CD frameworks 

Bachelor’s and/or Masters degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience 

Ability to provide technical leadership to junior team members 

Ability to engage with multiple groups to prototype solutions and provide common solutions 

Ability to analyze business direction, understand the long-term vision, and quantify the risk/benefits in developing strategic technical solutions. Collaborate closely with the product owners and squads in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation, and configuration. 

Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with product owners, architects, and software engineers. Seek opportunities to refactor business processes, improve user experience or perform capability rationalization. 

In-depth knowledge of APIs, infrastructure, data architecture. Experience in cloud technologies and practices, building and deploying applications using either AWS or Azure or both 

 

Background in the following skills 

Angular, Typescript, NX Workspace, HTML, CSS, JavaScript 

Karma/Jasmine, Jest, Cypress, Playwright 

Web Components, Component Architecture 

GIT, Jenkins, Node.js 

DevOps – CI/CD delivery code (groovy or other) 

Managing Shared Libraries, Working with design systems 

WCAG 2.1 and AA/AAA Standards 
 

The Value You Deliver 

Champion, identify, and drive development standards to improve quality, efficiency, reliability, and consistency 

Partner across the chapter and product areas to define and implement engineering standards, methodologies, and best practices 

Provide front end engineering thought leadership to advance the Digital Experience 

Collaborate with technology and business partners across Fidelity to provide strategic input into the long-term direction and roadmaps 

Ability to see the “big picture” impact of small decisions made in the present and are able to influence and empower others to do the same 

Learn quickly, be flexible, adapt and strive to excel in a fast paced, changing environment 

Ability to be highly organized, very responsive, and committed to quality and high standards 

Grow front end engineering talent through coaching and mentoring 

 

What matters most in this role 

Modern frontend expertise and passion for engineering excellence 

Expertise with projects at scale across multiple business groups 

Previous exposure to monorepos 

Strong developer with experience leading leads 

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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 top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. 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.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

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.

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