Principal Java Full Stack Engineer (Devops, Azure, SQL)
Job details
- Work mode
- Remote
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Staff / principal
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Posted
- Oct 12, 2026
- Last confirmed open
- Oct 12, 2026
About this role
Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
Job Description:
The Role
Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI) organization is seeking a top-tier software engineer to join our team within Stock Plan Services (SPS) Technology tasked with modernizing our equity compensation platform as cloud based offering.
The engineer will provide technical leadership during the construction, execution and support of a multi-year delivery roadmap following the agile development methodologies, modern architecture patterns, and the JAVA technology stack in support of program objectives.
This role demands significant collaboration with members of various business and IT groups throughout the lifecycle of a typical project. We're looking for software engineers that enjoy a collaborative environment and have a passion for releasing high quality software through iterative software development practices.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Education and Experience
+ Bachelor's degree or higher
+ 10 plus years of software development experience
+ 8 plus years total OO development experience
+ 8 plus years of Java EE development experience
+ Investment/financial services experience is highly desired
- Technical Skills
+ Server-Side technologies including Java 17, J2EE, JSP/JSTL, Servlet
+ Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment using Git, Jenkins, Docker, Udeploy
+ Cloud technologies including Docker, Azure Services, Kubernetes, Rancher
+ Building REST services using JAX-RS, Jersey, Swagger, Spring and Jackson frameworks
+ Building test suites using Junits, Mockito, Cucumber, Karate and Xray
+ Developing distributed applications with multi-site multi-node deployments
+ Developing applications to be deployed in clustered environments on IBM Websphere and Tomcat servers
+ Developing applications using in-memory and distributed cache technologies like Redis Cache
+ Security for REST services using OAuth 2.0 technologies
- Primary Responsibilities
- + Build and lead the definition of system architecture, detailed solution design and document complex solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data.
+ Care about cycle time and use Continuous Integration and Deployment (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.
+ Create and maintain high quality service documentation
+ Write concise and clear technical specifications based on analysis of complex business requirements
+ Have effective communication skills and technical expertise to drive and participate in significant discussions.
+ Coordinate multiple development work streams through integration and ensures architecture is scalable and extensible
+ Define and support development environment while adopting industry standard methodologies and tools
+ Ensures code reviews, unit testing and integration and performance testing is completed efficiently and effectively and guide the technology delivery framework to be entirely automated Testing and deployment.
+ Align with business partners and management team in evaluating current systems and making decisions on future development.
+ Mentor and direct team members on technology and specific design; Own issues and provide end-to-end solutions.
+ Continuously evaluate and prototype new technologies within developer and test community to understand business value and feasibility.
+ Digital mindset, and fluent across technology components including API Services development and consumption using modern frameworks and open source technologies.
The Team
Stock Plan Services (SPS) administers equity compensation programs on behalf of public and private sector companies offering various compensations programs such as: Employee Stock Purchase Plans, Restricted Stock Awards/Units, Stock Option Plans, Stock Appreciation Rights and Performance based Awards. Currently SPS services over 2M participants employed by over 600 clients and spread out in 150 countries.
The business is looking to further expand in the international equity compensation market, focused initially on western European countries and companies based there. As part of this business initiative, we are extending our capabilities to enable a truly global platform.
Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues.
This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.
Certifications
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Information Technology 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.