Principal Full stack Engineer

Description: Principal Full stack Engineer Location: Merrimack, NH Duration: 7 Months contract Onsite Job.!

looking for a Principal Full Stack Engineer to collaborate and deliver the top quality scalable systems solutions. You will serve as a Technical Lead working closely with the Tech Lead, Product Owners, and Architects to define and implement technical strategies and design solutions.

You will be responsible for designing and building high-quality solutions that align with the technology blueprint and standard development processes. This includes collaborating closely with architects to solve complex business challenges and contributing significantly to design strategies and development efforts to ensure quality outcomes. Leveraging your business knowledge, you will translate divisional initiatives into effective software solutions by developing sophisticated or multi-component applications and evaluating alternative approaches. Additionally, you will analyze and recommend improvements to development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies, providing valuable insights to both technical experts and management

The Purpose

The Principal Software Engineer in Fidelity Brokerage technology is responsible for design and development of highly available, scalable and distributed data platforms to process high volume, high velocity and wide variety of structured data.

The Principal Software Engineer will also be a technical lead for the team and have responsibility for solution design, solving key technical challenges and mentoring the team.

The Expertise You Have

You have a passion for technology and can navigate your way across sophisticated and rapidly-changing landscapes by staying on top of the latest trends and thrive by sharing knowledge
Experience in brokerage or financial services application development is a plus
Are a creator, a doer, and a disruptor who will help us tackle real-life problems and meet real customer needs
Self-starter, who actively challenges status-quo, is curious and not afraid to ask Why and What if ?
Are experienced with the tools of the trade including a variety of modern programming languages and frameworks
Uses 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
Stay on top of Algorithms, Data Structures and Design Patterns and love the challenge of building highly scalable systems that can support thousands of transactions/sec
Have a mindset of test first development and are experienced in modern test frameworks
Are data-driven and can measure, collect and use data to make decisions
Have strong communication skills and technical expertise in driving and participating in discussions
The Skills You Bring
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field required
10+ years strong proficiency in Java, Spring Framework, Kafka development environment; Use (CI/CD) Jenkins pipeline
Experience leading a team
Proficient in designing micro services by applying software design patterns, twelve-factor app methodology, and SOLID principles
Experience container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
Experience with asynchronous workers and resilient messaging services such as Kafka, SNS and SQS
Experience with Brokerage systems, especially Trade processing and Settlements.
Proficient in databases and SQL
Unit and integration test automation using Jest, Cucumber, Junit and Mockito
Ability to build reliable software that can withstand unreliable environments
Possess critical thinking skills to build end-to-end solutions
Passionate and committed to learning new things and developing with the latest technologies and frameworks
Strong analytical and communication skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks at any given time
Participate in engineering practices such as code and design reviews, environment strategy, and build and deployment pipelines
Strong organization skills and attention to details

The Value You Deliver
Designing, building and supporting critical applications to provide the best customer experience
Exploring new technology trends to simplify our data ecosystem
Driving innovation and leading the team to implement solutions with future thinking
Collaborating with our internal and external teams to deliver technology solutions for the business needs
Guiding teams to improve development agility, code quality and automation
Resolving technical roadblocks and mitigating potential risks
Delivering system automation by setting up continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines
Acting as a technical mentor to bring team members up to speed on the latest data technologies and promoting continuous learning