Job Description:

The Role

Fidelity Labs is looking for a Lead API Engineer who excels in designing, implementing and managing robust, secure and scalable API solutions.

The Value You Deliver

• API Platform Development: Lead end-to-end development, deployment, and management of a scalable API platform, ensuring optimal performance and reliability
• Technical Design Ownership: Taking responsibility for technical aspects, including architecture, design decisions and stack selection
• Hands-On Leadership: Actively contribute to the development process, coding key components and setting a high standard for code quality and efficiency
• Mentorship and Team Leadership: Guiding and mentoring a team of developers, promoting standard processes in coding, review and quality assurance
• Innovation and Strategy: Continuously exploring emerging technologies and methodologies to enhance the platform's capabilities and efficiency
• Collaboration and Communication: Working closely with product managers, stakeholders, and other teams to align the platform's development with business objectives and user needs
• Quality Assurance and Security: Ensure the platform adheres to the highest standards of security and quality, including regular audits and updates
• Performance Monitoring: Implement and maintain systems for monitoring platform performance, with a focus on proactive issue resolution

The Experience and Skills You Bring

• Proven Platform Engineering Experience: Demonstrable experience in designing and building large-scale, high-performance API platforms, with a strong understanding of RESTful principles and API design patterns
• Technical Expertise: Proficiency in modern programming languages (NodeJS/Python/Golang) and frameworks used in API development, along with a deep understanding of software architecture, cloud services, and microservices architecture
• Security Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of cybersecurity standard processes, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and compliance standards
• Strong Leadership and Communication Skills: Experience in leading technical teams, with the ability to mentor developers, drive technical vision, and effectively communicate complex technical ideas to various stakeholders
• Adaptability and Continuous Learning: A commitment to staying ahead of with the latest industry trends, technologies, and methodologies in API development and platform engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information systems (preferred but not necessary)
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in Software Development, with a specialized focus on Platform/API engineering

The Team

We are Fidelity Labs, Fidelity Investments’ in-house software incubator and digital studio. Founded in 2005, Fidelity Labs has played a critical role in driving growth and innovation for the firm. The Fidelity Labs organization has a portfolio of new businesses and is constantly prototyping concepts for Fidelity’s next new ventures.

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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.

At Fidelity, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we’re calling “Dynamic Working”. Most associates will have a hybrid schedule with a requirement to work onsite at a Fidelity work location for at least one week, 5 consecutive days, every four weeks. These requirements are subject to change.

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, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.