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Director, Full Stack Engineering

Fidelity

Fidelity

Software Engineering
Durham, NC, USA
Posted on Jan 16, 2026
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Job Description:

Digital Platforms Director, Software Engineering (Individual Contributor)

Are you excited about applying your full stack engineering skills to build Enterprise Digital Experiences for customers of Fidelity Investments?

Fidelity's Workplace Investing (WI) Digital Platforms Technology team designs, develops, implements, and supports an Enterprise suite of Digital applications. This role requires a blend of hands- on engineering and technical leadership across multiple teams. We are passionate about delivering innovative solutions that exceed our customer’s needs. We embrace diversity of thought and experience.

Our team thrives with a steadfast dedication to innovation which promotes a culture of continuous improvement and significant product advancement. This is a fast-paced technology group that adopts modern technologies to build powerful tools and deliver an outstanding end user experience. As a Director of Software Engineering, you will craft, build, test & deliver the features that make up Fidelity’s digital experiences. Though this is an Individual Contributor role, you will also provide guidance and mentor developers within the wider digital platforms’ technology team.

The Skills You Bring

  • 8 + years hands on experience as a full stack software engineer
  • Modern expertise in programming languages and frameworks such as Java, Angular, and Spring.
  • Skilled in all aspects of software development lifecycle
  • Expertise in designing, building, and supporting high transaction applications
  • Experience in building responsive front end applications using typescript, angular, or node
  • Skilled in building service-oriented applications using java, spring, and camel
  • Hands-on experience in continuous integration and delivery practices; Jenkins experience strongly preferred
  • Excellent leadership, communication, collaboration, and influencing skills
  • Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and develop technology associates
  • Robust critical thinking and problem-solving skills

The Value You Deliver

Strategy & Planning:

  • Defines and executes on tech vision in consultation with architecture, engineering and product leadership.
  • Facilitates the alignment of the product roadmap with tech driven initiatives.
  • Brings tech vision to life; emphasizes platform stability, engineering discipline, and builds a plan to address end-of-life technologies.

Coaching & Mentoring:

  • Mentors agile teams including developers, testers and analysts. Serves as a link between product and architecture.
  • Creates next-gen tech leads by investing significant efforts in coaching and mentoring associates.
  • Serves as the authority on technical solutions and standards.

Hands-on Engineering:

  • Builds expertise in Fidelity practices and continuously monitors industry advancements. Leads the creation and maintenance of engineering standards to ensure relevance and innovation.
  • Works on strategic projects that span multiple business units and product teams. Provides technical guidance and leadership getting into the details and taking on development and guidance.
  • Serves as the steward of tech vision, delivers on complex projects with a focus on incremental value delivery to achieve the tech vision.

Scope:

  • Provides technical leadership to multiple agile teams.
  • Works across business units to develop an engaged engineering community. Maintains focus on strong engineering discipline.
  • Serves as a developer advocate. Brings developer experience concerns to the fore and helps improve developer experience.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization-

Our Team’s goal is to build enterprise user experience that delights our customers, anticipates their needs, and matches services or solutions to support effective decision making. You will be responsible for leading & directing the development of high performance, responsive user interfaces. Our systems professionals thrive, with a steadfast dedication to innovation, which champions a culture of continuous improvement and significant achievement. We see ourselves as a vital link to Fidelity's customers. This is a fast-paced group that is using ground-breaking technologies to build powerful tools and outstanding user experiences for our customers.

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.

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.

Company overview

At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.

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Join us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

Benefits
Learning & development
Culture

Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave

Student loan assistance

Fidelity is invested in you

Committed to Professional Development

At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.

We offer a wide range of options for professional development including online, in-person, and mentor driven solutions. Special interest and networking groups are also part of our culture of empowerment, personal and professional enrichment, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge sharing.

Continuing Education & Training

  • Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
  • Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
  • Ongoing skills development and coaching opportunities.
  • Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
  • A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.

Mentoring

  • Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
  • Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
  • An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
  • Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.

Our Commitment

Discover opportunities to build a fulfilling career within a supportive culture that celebrates individuality. We empower our associates to pursue career paths that align with their unique goals and personalities.

Giving back to our communities

Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.

Fidelity Cares

  • Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
  • Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
  • Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
  • More than 12,500 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
  • Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.

Fidelity Charitable®

  • Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
  • Helped deliver $14.9billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2024.
  • Supported more than 433,000 unique charities around the world.
  • Since its inception, more than $100 billion has been given to public charities.

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