Sr. Software Engineer

The Team
The Trade Management Engineering group is the team responsible for providing trading solutions for Fidelity's Capital Markets division. This is a hands-on role as an individual contributor and responsibilities include technical and business requirement gathering, technical leadership, and mentoring peers.



The Expertise You Have

• BS or Master's in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or Finance.
• 10+ years of low latency systems development experience in C/C++ on Linux, with good understanding of UNIX IPCs.
• Very proficient in UNIX Shell scripting.
• Proficiency in multi-threading
• Knowledge of Equity/Options trading systems and market data is plus.
• Knowledge of time series databases, KDB is a plus.
• Low latency messaging systems (e.g., 29West, Kafka)
• Strong background in building scalable, distributed, asynchronous, and event-driven applications.
• Advanced knowledge of low latency design patterns and performance optimization techniques.
• Familiarity with AI developer assist tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot).
• Strong interpersonal, relationship management, and facilitation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with business and technical team members across the organization.
• Ability to read/analyze code and logs for requirement gathering, defect/incident triage, and root cause analysis.
• Ability to understand and design the technology and software architecture of an application.
• Ability to quickly learn, adapt and strive to meet the needs of a fast paced, changing environment.
• Ability to multi-task effectively.

The Skills You Bring

• Expert knowledge and experience of taking complex features and breaking them into clear and concise stories with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria.
• Experience analyzing, documenting, and modernizing legacy systems and workflows.
• Experience with minimum viable product definition and product backlog management.
• Ability to comprehend and articulate end-to-end system or financial workflows.
• Strong leader with a collaborative work style and hands-on team leadership.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and communicate impediments appropriately.
• Ability to establish and maintain trusted relationships between business partners and technology groups.
• Understands the value of trade off conversations with business partners.
• Experience working with QA and customer-facing resources to develop, document, and track use cases.
• Experience detecting and managing scope changes, as well as escalating and managing-to-resolution of issues.
• Effective management of project-related tasks, issues, and planning.

The Value You Deliver

• Responsible for translating program priorities and features into deliverable tasks.
• Lead the requirements gathering of new features and/or enhancements for our retail and institutional financial services platform.
• Collaborate with technology and business teams to deliver high-quality solutions for business problems.
• Bring curiosity and a questioning mind-set to work, asking always about the why and the value of new features/enhancements to the platform.
• Contribute to enhancing systems analysis practices across a global team.
• Monitor documentation standards and best practices.

The hourly pay rate range for this position is $70.00-100.00 per hour.


Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate's relevant experience, and other factors.