Principal Software Engineer | Java, Spring Boot, React/Angular, REST APIs, AWS, CI/CD
Fidelity Investments · Galway, Connacht, Ireland
Financial Services · 10,001+ employees
About the role
Provide technical leadership across UI, application, and service tiers while mentoring senior and junior developers. Collaborate with Product Owners to translate business requirements into optimized customer journeys and a multi-year platform roadmap.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires a degree in a technology-related field and over 10 years of development experience, including 5+ years in front-end development. Expertise in Java, Spring, and modern UI frameworks like Angular or React is essential.
Full description
Job Description:
Principal Full Stack Engineer - WI Digital Platforms
Are you a Lead Developer seeking the next growth phase in your career? Our workspace encourages fresh ideas, creative thinking and rewards forward-thinking, passionate individuals. We pride ourselves on a diverse culture that allows you to share, collaborate and be yourself in a highly dynamic and inclusive workplace.
Workplace Investing (WI) helps employers lead a successful benefits program to improve their employees’ overall well-being.
If you enjoy engaging with product owners and have a passion to use technology to tackle business problems, then our WI Digital Platforms team in Galway could be your new home!
The Expertise You Have
- Bachelor’s or post-primary degree in a Technology-related subject area.
- 10 or more years’ development experience with 5+ in front-end development.
- Experience in leading teams in technology and full stack solutions.
- Passion for designing and delivering the best end user journeys.
- Expertise in delivering front-end solutions and mid-tier services.
The Skills You Bring
- Expert skills with Java, Spring, RESTful services, JUnit.
- Extensive experience with web fundamentals like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
- Extensive experience building responsive web applications.
- Extensive experience of front-end frameworks such as Angular or React, or any other equivalent UI framework, e.g., NodeJS and NPM.
- Experience with release management, source control and CI/CD technologies, e.g. Jenkins, Git, Maven, etc.
- Ability to apply previous experience of Automation Tools/Test Frameworks (e.g., Jasmine, Mocha, Selenium, Protractor, etc.).
- Experience with any of the following a plus: Artifactory, Monorepo, Apache Camel, AWS / ECS / EKS, code analysis tools, e.g. Veracode, SOASTA, Sonar, JaCoCo, etc.
The Value You Deliver
- Providing technical and team leadership in the UI, application, and service tiers.
- Leading, guiding and mentoring Senior Developers as well as more junior team members.
- Translating business requirements with the Product Owner to deliver optimised customer journeys using the latest industry and company front-end standards.
- Define and ensure compliance to standards and best practice for UI, application and service tier development including design patterns, release management, & source code control.
- Taking ownership for ensuring key tasks in the software life cycle are completed.
- Collaborating with the Product Owner to deliver on quarterly business objectives as well as developing a multi-year roadmap for the platform.
- Giving your expertise as a UI SME to further Product Area and WI Technology capabilities.
Category:
Information Technology