Director, Full Stack Engineering

The Role

We're looking for a passionate engineering leader to join Fixed Income Engineering chapter supporting Next Gen Trading platform experience. You will bring a strong technology background with a passion for coaching and growing engineering talent. In this role you will be leading a team of dynamic engineers working across multiple squads. Join us to be a part of our leadership team and help us build a healthy team environment promoting Engineering Excellence and a strong product mindset.

• 10+ years of technical hands‑on experience in designing and building large scale resilient distributed systems.
• Passion for leading, coaching and developing talent in engineering teams in a geographically dispersed agile organization.
• Proven experience in leading technical design and estimation, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and governance controls.
• Experience in leading front end engineering teams with modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular, Type Script, Node, NPM, Rx JS) preferred.
• Experienced in defining and promoting branching strategy, development and testing best practices with standard quality gates in CI/CD pipelines.
• Broad knowledge of technology standards and best practices including devops practices, design principles, security, reliability, resilience, performance, etc.
• Promoting engineering excellence and continuous learning mindset.
• Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain strong partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Experienced in identifying and acquiring talent needs, resource planning, and talent allocation across large organizations.

• Define and implement best practices, standards and guidelines for software development, including code reviews, testing, and deployment processes to ensure consistency and quality across the organization.
• Driving a culture of excellence and continuous improvement, including setting high standards for quality, performance and reliability.
• Ensuring organization talent composition aligns with strategic business priorities including workforce planning vital to provide increased value and results for clients and the business.
• Supporting and empowering associates to enable delivery of increased value in their teams, including coaching and mentoring team members to help them grow and develop their skills.
• Enabling an agile and streamlined organization by demonstrating agile behaviors.
• Influence strategic backlog and prioritization decisions partnering with product teams.
• Measure performance through established objectives and critical metrics.

In our Fixed Income Technology organization, we are committed to empowering our investment professionals with the very best tools and technologies to deliver world class investment performance to our customers. Our technology experts work across a broad array of investment processes supporting many different types of securities and investment objectives. Through outstanding business and technology partnership, we can offer great solutions to help our customers meet their financial objectives.

Our Agile squads are composed primarily of full‑stack engineers using Java, Python, Oracle, PL/SQL, Angular, and Kafka on the cloud to create software that supports Fidelity’s Bond and Money Market investment, portfolio management, investing and trading systems.

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.