Senior Python Full Stack Engineer

Job Description:

The Role

The Advanced Strategies & Research Technology Team in Fidelity’s Asset Management organization is an embedded team passionate about unlocking the potential of new technologies, techniques and datasets, to assist our Investment Professionals in generating alpha for our investment products and customers. The role is ideal for someone with an enterprise development background, with a strong technology, coding and data skills, looking to operate in a less constrained environment, as part of an accelerated development team.

The role is ideal for a skilled technical leader with strong design, teamwork and influencing skills. Ideally the candidate is a full stack, but this role will be primarily focused on processing and generating Analytics from structured and unstructured datasets with the ability of parallel processing potentially in the cloud.

The Expertise You Have

• Minimum Requirements: Applicants must have at least 3+ years of experience in enterprise development

• Preferred Experience: Proven expertise in tactical development and experimentation and a strong desire to work in a dynamic, fast-paced development team.

• Technical Skills:

  • Strong experience with Python, relational database management systems (RDBMS), and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

  • Strong experience in designing scalable applications in cloud to process structured, semi-structured and unstructured data

  • Proficiency in object-oriented programming principles and data structures.

  • Knowledge of cloud computing concepts (AWS) to scale applications and experience with CI/CD tools.

  • Experience in building Single Page Applications (SPA) using Angular or React.

  • Knowledge of text processing will be added advantage

  • Knowledge of Elastic / SOLR / Lucene

• Additional Qualifications:

  • Ability to balance multiple tracks concurrently.

  • Experience in planning, designing, leading, and executing technical solutions and improvements.

  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, including on-call responsibilities.

  • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a technology-related field (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required.

The Skills You Bring

• Experience with developing applications in AWS (Cloud) using kafka, sqs, lambda, EC2, serverless architecture, and other AWS Features will be an added advantage.

• You have a track record of engineering experience by processing large datasets and building scalable applications and Rapid Prototyping

• You have a background with enterprise development and a consistent record rapidly bring projects from inception to delivery in ambitious timeframes. Using Python and RDBMS, SQL, PL/SQL

• You have solid experience in Object Oriented Programming in Java or C# or Python

• You have experience in Angular / React and building SPA applications

• You have solid experience in developing custom Data Pipelines to extract data, map data, transform data, and to load data in various data stores like RDBMS, Oracle, S3, PL/SQL, and / or shared drives.

• You have solid experience in Python and libraries such as Pandas / Numpy, etc. or Spark

• You are familiar with extracting data from REST APIs

• Your demonstrable experience developing scripting in Linux and Windows

The Team

The team is comprised of a diverse set of technology professionals including application developers, database engineers, data scientists and tool prototypes with quantitative backgrounds who work collectively with our business partners to take ideas from a whiteboard, through prototypes that garner feedback to be rapidly deployed to our users, all the way through to integration with enterprise applications both on prem and on the cloud.

The base salary range for this position is $97,000-185,000 USD per year.  

Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and other factors.

Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.   

We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home.  These benefits include comprehensive health care c