Principal Software Engineer (100% backend, Galway based)

Fidelity Investments; Connacht; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead a team delivering the equity compensation recordkeeping platform for 500+ Fortune 1000 customers. You will drive real-time data, reporting, and BI features on a modern cloud-ready stack.

You will own technical direction, ensure high performance and quality, and collaborate across tech leads, product, quality engineering, and support to scale delivery globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technology field required.
• 8+ years of Java EE development on high-volume enterprise systems.
• Experience building JAVA middle tier REST services and with messaging systems (ActiveMQ, Kafka).
• Experience with PL/SQL and complex queries.
• Understanding of relational databases.
• Knowledge of Cloud computing and DevOps concepts (CI/CD) in AKS/Azure.
• Experience leading engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams to design, develop and deliver scalable equity recordkeeping features.
• Provide technical leadership and foster a healthy learning environment.
• Collaborate with product managers, QA, and operations to enable global experiences.

Skills

Java EE development

REST services

Enterprise messaging

Cloud computing

DevOps / CI/CD

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

ActiveMQ

Kafka

PL/SQL

Relational Databases

AKS Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Job Description

Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing organization is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to support our equity compensation recordkeeping platform. This person will play a key role in allowing Stock Plan Services (SPS) to accelerate the pace at which our participants can take advantage of new global capabilities. The individual will make a significant impact leading a team of engineers responsible for the design, development, and delivery of new and improved experiences for a customer base consisting of 500+ of the Fortune 1000 companies.

Job Description

Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing organization is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to support our equity compensation recordkeeping platform. This person will play a key role in allowing Stock Plan Services (SPS) to accelerate the pace at which our participants can take advantage of new global capabilities. The individual will make a significant impact leading a team of engineers responsible for the design, development, and delivery of new and improved experiences for a customer base consisting of 500+ of the Fortune 1000 companies.
We’re hiring a motivated engineer to help us scale the delivery of key experiences to allow more participants to realize the benefits of these capabilities. With a heavy focus on ownership and teamwork this engineer will run point for the team providing technical leadership and helping to foster a healthy learning environment.

The Team

You will be part of the technology team in SPS. As a principal engineer you will help drive collaboration across the organization and internal to the team. Being an outstanding partner, you’ll work alongside other tech leads, product managers, quality engineering, support teams, and operations to effectively support delivery and enablement of these global experiences. These experiences will be built around real-time recordkeeping, reporting and business intelligence features running on a modernized cloud-ready stack.

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in a technology related field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) required
• 8+ years of Java EE development on high volume enterprise systems
• Proven expertise developing JAVA middle tier rest services and with Enterprise messaging like ActiveMQ, Kafka
• Experience with PL/SQL and complex queries
• Understanding of Relational Databases
• Proven understanding of Cloud Computing and DevOps concepts like CI/CD pipelines in an AKS Azure environment
• Demonstrated experience of leading engineering teams

The Skills You Bring

• Desire to act as player/mentor and lead a team by taking advantage of what members do best
• Passionate about finding opportunities to automate manually intensive processes to improve efficiency
• Your sophisticated skills in data intensive application development, data integration, and data pipeline design patterns on a distributed platform
• Your experience in leading projects to completion
• Your ability to collaborate with other technical and business experts on the team
• Ability to learn and experiment with new technologies and patterns
• Your passion to follow modern test driven and automation driven software development methodologies

The Value You Deliver

• Strong sense of ownership for the quality of solution delivery and execution
• Embrace continuous improvement regarding application quality and stability
• Being candid and transparent in all discussions to ensure the best outcomes
• Ability to prioritize work in fast paced environment
• The prioritization of the best customer experience
• Partnership with other technical leads, architects and business to make clear, simple, and technically sound design decisions
• You define and lead development standards and coding best practices for team

How Your Work Impacts The Organization

Fidelity's Workplace Investing Stock Plan Services product area provides recordkeeping and brokerage solutions to help employers manage their equity compensation plans. We are passionate about delivering innovative solutions that exceed our customer’s needs. We embrace diversity of thought and experience. This is a fast-paced technology group that adopts modern technologies to build powerful tools and deliver an outstanding end user experience. The principal engineer sets direction across the development teams through design and hands‑on implementation. You will be responsible for leading the development of high performance, high quality applications.

Accommodations

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Information Technology