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As a Lead Engineer, you will apply strong software engineering practices to build secure, resilient, high-performing backend systems that power Fidelity's customer-facing and enterprise applications.\nYou will contribute to architecture discussions, influence engineering standards, and drive adoption of modern development practices across teams. Being technically proficient is only part of the story. We believe that delivering exceptional customer experiences requires an artful blend of engineering excellence, innovation, and collaboration. While we value strong technologists, we are fanatics about our Culture Code that promotes leadership at all levels.\nValue You Deliver\nUse your expertise in Java, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems to drive high-quality software design, maintainability, scalability, observability, and security.\nDesign and develop robust RESTful APIs and microservices that support business-critical applications and customer experiences.\nContribute ideas to improve our platforms, engineering practices, developer productivity, and operational excellence.\nDemonstrate conviction and drive while operating in highly ambiguous situations, balancing immediate business needs with long-term architectural goals.\nAct as a self-starter who actively challenges the status quo, remains curious, and continuously explores better engineering approaches.\nLeverage strong communication and technical leadership skills to influence architecture, design, and engineering decisions across teams.\nParticipate actively in application development by building scalable services and maintaining automated testing suites, including unit, integration, contract, and performance testing.\nCollaborate with team members to improve software quality, deployment velocity, reliability, and production health.\nOwn features end-to-end, from requirements and design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and support.\nMentor and guide engineers in adopting engineering best practices, design principles, and coding standards.\nSkills Required for the Role\nTechnical\nStrong hands-on experience in Java, micro services frameworks, and enterprise application development.\nProven experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs, Microservices, and event-driven architectures.\nStrong understanding of API security, authentication, and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth2, JWT, OpenID Connect, and mutual TLS.\nExperience with distributed systems concepts including resiliency patterns, fault tolerance, service discovery, caching, messaging, and scalability.\nFamiliarity of relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.\nExperience building and deploying applications in cloud environments, preferably AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, IAM).\nExperience with testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, Test Containers, Wire Mock, and API automation tools.\nFamiliarity with observability tools including Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, or similar platforms.\nKnowledge of secure coding practices, performance engineering, AI-assisted development, and Site Reliability Engineering principles.\nExpertise We Are Looking For\nDeep expertise in Java-based backend development and experience building large-scale, highly available, cloud-native applications.\nStrong understanding of domain-driven design, microservices architecture, API-first development, and modern software design patterns.\nAbility to evaluate and apply emerging technologies to deliver business value while maintaining engineering simplicity and operational excellence.\nExperience building scalable platforms using containerization, orchestration, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native practices.\nApply modern DevOps principles to improve engineering efficiency through automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and monitoring.\nDeep understanding of secure software development and application security practices to safeguard customer and enterprise data.\nStrong focus on software quality through Test-Driven Development (TDD), automated testing, shift-left quality practices, and engineering excellence.\nDrive improvements in test automation, code quality, performance, reliability, and production stability.\nOwn outcomes through personal accountability and a commitment to delivering high-quality solutions.\nExperience collaborating effectively with globally distributed teams across business and technology organizations.\nParticipate in architecture reviews, code reviews, API reviews, and engineering governance activities.\nExperience leading technical design discussions, influencing architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers.\nPassionate about building maintainable, scalable, and observable systems with a strong customer-centric mindset.\nExperience contributing to reusable frameworks, shared platforms, engineering accelerators, open-source projects, or developer productivity initiatives is highly desirable.\nAbility to rapidly prototype ideas, evaluate solutions, and transform concepts into production-ready capabilities.\nHow Your Work Impacts the Organization\nFidelity Wealth (FW) is the retail investing arm of Fidelity that serves the financial needs of millions of individual investors with a comprehensive range of investment products and services. The primary objective of the team in India is to enable the PI businesses, working with our IT business partners in the US. Over the years, we have developed technical expertise across personal investing platforms, strategic investment products, and enterprise data solutions.\nAs part of Platform Engineering, you will help build and modernize critical API and microservices platforms that enable scalable, secure, and reliable digital experiences for Fidelity customers. Across our business we take great pride in building strong and lasting relationships with our customers, providing sound investment guidance, and delivering a best-in-class customer experience.\nCompany Overview\nFidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services. Headquartered in Boston, US, Fidelity's goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. Privately held for nearly 70 years, Fidelity employs 45,000 associates who are focused on the long-term success of our customers. FMR (Fidelity Management & Research) India is the Global Inhouse Center of Fidelity Investments. 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