Principal Front End Software Engineer - Galway
We are passionate about understanding our users’ needs and building creative solutions to help
meet those needs. We are highly motivated and love working on complex problems. Are you
passionate about frontend development? We are looking for a skilled technical leader with
strong design, development communication, collaboration and influencing skills and a love for
solving technology challenges to deliver business-critical features. If you are an experienced
Software Engineer with a passion for delivering innovative products and services, a career with
us in Asset Management Technology may be right for you! We have an outstanding opportunity
in our team for a Principal Frontend Software Engineer to work on building the Next Generation
Trading Desktop.
• You will help design, build and support mission-critical enterprise software
applications.
• You will define product solutions by working directly with business and product teams.
• You will provide mentorship and guidance to junior developers to help them grow in their
careers.
• You will actively promote good engineering practices and standards.
• You will keep abreast of the latest engineering trends and practices and bring them back
to the team when appropriate.
• You will work with the team to continuously improve our craft of software engineering.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in designing, developing and testing using Angular ideally or
similar frontend development frameworks such as React or Vue.js
• Experience in building responsive web applications using component libraries such as
PrimeNG or Material-UI
• Experience of monorepo architecture and tooling, particularly Nx, is a plus
• Solid hands-on experience working with some of the following technologies: Java,
Spring Boot, Node.js, npm, Maven, Git,
• Familiarity with cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (preferred),
Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure
• Strong technical design, development, analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Financial services experience is an advantage, particularly exposure to FinTech
protocols such as FIX and FDC3
The Skills You Bring
• Act as a frontend development technical leader, helping coach and mentor peers,
performing code reviews and helping establish technical standards for the team.
• Help be a technical voice for the team, representing technical solutions at cross squad
and leadership sessions.
• Be a good communicator with a customer-centric mind-set and can run with multiple
tasks at a given time.
• Thrive in a team environment, collaborating freely and actively contributing to how the
work gets completed.
• Have an openness to model Fidelity's Values of Honesty & Integrity, Employee Respect
and Quality & Excellence.
• Are passionate about current and future technologies, and willing to learn constantly.
• Drive engineering practices such as code and design reviews, environment strategy, and
build and deployment pipeline development.
• Proficient in enabling teams to implement unit testing, integration testing and end-toend
testing.
• Ability to quickly grasp new concepts and technologies
• Desire to work across the full stack of a development environment including the Test
Pyramid and deployment pipeline
The Value you deliver
• Be highly engaged and build collaborative working relationships with the business as
part of the team.
• Continuously improve technical proficiency by demonstrating knowledge and
application of current technologies.
• Deliver creative and top-quality software in an agile environment that demonstrates a
clear understanding of our customers business domain.
• Work with Squad Lead on translating requirements to stories, delivering solutions that
meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Drive delivery of high-quality/high test coverage code, following Fidelity standards, and
methodologies.
• Provide technical guidance to other team members through code reviews, mentorship
and collaboration
