Lead – Software Engineering – Crypto Trading

Job Description:

 Job Title – Lead – Software Engineering – Crypto Trading

The Purpose of This Role

The Lead – Software Engineering will be working in development and delivery of high quality, timely and maintainable software solutions for crypto trading in an agile environment which meet functional and non-functional business requirements. This role will involve partner & stakeholder engagement, design and release support. you’ll get the opportunity to mentor developers, develop your skills and collaborate with engineers across Fidelity in a fun and dynamic environment. You will work closely with technical leaders to build a secure crypto platform utilizing modern software development practices. As a senior member of the team, you will mentor engineers on the best practices of Software development. 

The Value You Deliver

• Consistently making culture choices that positively impact all of engineering. Engineering excellence is a collective set of choices we make as technologists, whether to increase code coverage or ship a product, investing in developer productivity vs saving $$$.

• You do not compromise for the sake of social acceptance and demonstrate conviction and drive to operate in highly ambiguous situations thriving in uncertainty while keeping your eyes on the long-term vision.

• Drive technical discussions, arbitrate and recommend optimal path forward in a room of highly opinionated engineers that may or may not agree with you.

• Use your experience and knowledge to influence better software design, promote proper software engineering and bug prevention strategies, testability and security

• Actively participate in the development process through writing and maintain application features and automated tests including unit tests, component tests, integration tests, functional tests,

• Support the team in maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Collaborate with team members on improving team's test coverage, release velocity and production health

• Participate in application code and test code reviews with rest of the Scrum team

• Contribute to own entire features from concept to deployment working on cross-functional activities

• Contribute ideas to improve our products as well as develop your skills, learn new technologies and languages, and continue to learn

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• You have excellent proficiency in engineering large complex systems

• You have proficiency in multi processing and parallel computing

• You have experience and expertise in profiling and performance turning software

• You have proficiency in enterprise design patterns

• You have proficiency in handling data both structured and unstructured data

• Ability to drive mature delivery practices through automation

• You have strong proficiency in system programming with C++

• You have proficiency implementing low latency programs

• You have exposure to memory modelling, core isolation, performance tuning of distributed systems

• You are proficient with CI & CD tools

• You have the drive and ability to deliver software with a high degree of automation

• You are proficient with version control systems and can handle development for multiple releases in parallel

• You have the spirit and willingness to contribute to org level innovation

• You have a learning mindset and are able to demonstrate versatility in addition to your specialization

• You have the ability to strategize and plan technology roadmaps

• You have strong proficiency in driving execution of high quality designs and implementations

• You are able to build a strong engineering acumen in the development teams

• You are able to influence and drive adoption of best tools for accelerated delivery

• You should have the ability to work effectively with both partners and project team members

  • You know Agile methodologies or iterative development processes

  • You know Acceptance test-driven development a plus.

  • You have Ability to take ownership

  • You Coach team members and take accountability for the deliverables

  • You have Excellent collaboration and Interpersonal skills

  • You have Great attitude, being a mentor, team player and effective contributor

  • You have Focus on productivity

• Experience in Financial Markets / Blockchain is a nice to have

• Ability to quickly learn, adapt across the tech stack and bring in best practices for the same across the global team.

• Expertise delivering solutions in public cloud environments like AWS

The Skills that are good to have for this role

• Expertise in building trading platforms & exposure to Liquidity seeking algorithms

The Expertise we’re looking for

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in a hands on manner with enterprise projects

• Atleast 2+ years of leading a team of atleast 2-3 developers

• Strong Technical Expertise & proven track record delivering solutions with event driven architectures

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software engineering or related field

How your work impacts the Organization

Fidelity Digital Assets, a Fidelity Investments Company, is developing a full-service enterprise-grade platform for storing, trading, and servicing digital assets, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Fidelity Digital Assets embraces an entrepreneurial culture and startup mindset while serving as one of the most innovative business units within Fidelity Investments. Our global, diverse team of hundreds of forward-thinking professionals lead with agility and creativity to build solutions that bridge the gap between traditional institutional investors and their exposure to digital assets. The firm’s tenure and experience across multiple business lines present our employees with unprecedented access to knowledge, technology, and resources that help our team reshape the future of finance.   

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Category:Information Technology