Principal Software Engineer (.NET, C#, WPF / XAML)

Are you interested in serving the needs of millions of customers by building the best-in-class digital experience that helps them in financial planning, investing, and retirement solutions? Our chapter comprises teams that work on desktop applications and platforms like Active Trader Pro®. We're looking for product-aware engineers who are passionate, inquisitive, and responsible individuals to help us on our mission to deliver the best user experience to our customers.

The Purpose of Your Role

Our teams build and contribute to Fidelity’s digital presence. As a desktop developer, you will help us build the desktop user experience and the underlying platforms needed to support our digital presence. You’ll work on building end to end features as part of our autonomous, cross functional teams. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to own entire features from concept to deployment working on cross-functional teams. You'll have the opportunity to contribute ideas to improve our products as well as develop your skills, learn new technologies and languages, and continue to learn. We're looking for highly motivated individuals who work well in a collaborative, iterative, and fast-paced environment.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

You have a passion for technology and can navigate your way across complex and rapidly-changing landscapes by staying on top of latest trends and thrive by sharing knowledge.

Are a creator, a doer, and a disruptor who will help us solve real-life problems and meet real customer needs. You’ll be helping us build things, taking an idea, and creating rapid prototypes that are shippable and learn from real-life feedback.

Are comfortable to be a self-starter, who actively challenges status-quo, is curious and not afraid to ask 'Why' and 'What if'?

Are experienced with the tools of the trade including a variety of modern programming languages and frameworks

Care about cycle time and use CI/CD practices, tools to rapidly deploy changes to customers while minimizing risk using practices like A/B tests, blue-green deployments, and feature toggles

Stay on top of Algorithms, Data Structures and Design Patterns and love the challenge of building highly scalable systems that can support thousands of transactions/sec.

Have a mindset of test first development and are experienced in modern test frameworks. We believe in testing and that quality is everyone’s job.

Are data-driven and can measure, collect and use data to make decisions. We understand the value of intuition and the need to balance decisions accordingly.

Have strong communication skills and technical expertise to drive and participate in meaningful discussions.

The Skills You Bring

• Strong knowledge of HTTP based APIs, Networking and how the internet works.
• Strong .Net/C# based applications expertise desired
• Strong experience with application frameworks
• Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub repository/pipelines & tools
• Experience with performance tuning & memory utilization of desktop applications
• Comfortable with Visual Design & Rapid Prototyping
• Expert at one IDE of choice (Visual Studio, WebStorm)
• Unit testing & Automation Tools/Frameworks (MS Unit, NUnit, xUnit)
• API Design & Development, MicroServices Architecture.
• DevOps, Automated Testing and Continuous Delivery

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

We believe that diversity in background and experience will foster an inclusive and engaging work environment for our employees. This ultimately enables us to deliver a better product for our customers.

Being technically competent is only telling half the story. We believe that delivering the best possible customer experience requires an artful blend of human ingenuity and technology. While we value smart technologists, we are fanatics about our culture that promotes autonomy and leadership at all levels. People who are great cultural fits demonstrate curiosity to learn, are unafraid to break things, step up and take the lead, take ownership of their projects, and thrive by sharing knowledge.

• We share knowledge to empower and connect everyone
• We live outside our comfort zone.
• We believe life is too short to not love what you do
• We know amazing people create great opportunities
• We are customers.
• We favor autonomy and take ownership

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles. Some roles may have unique onsite requirements. Please consult with your recruiter for the specific expectations for this position.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.