Director of Software Engineering – APIs

The Role

As the Director of Software Engineering for Digital Assets APIs, you will be responsible for building and managing an engineering team who will create a new API platform for accessing Fidelity Digital Assets services. This is a hands-on role where you will work across engineering, architecture, and product teams to deliver a complete API offering that is reliable, resilient, and meets the needs of our customers. You will maintain a strong team of high performers and invest in their career growth while providing technical guidance where appropriate.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science


• 8+ years of software engineering experience


• 4+ years of management experience


• Ability to identify, hire, motivate, and retain top engineering talent


• Expert in designing, building, and documenting customer facing RESTful APIs


• Experience with WebSockets and/or FIX APIs is a plus


• Prior experience designing and building large scale production distributed systems to support public facing websites – experience with Java and Spring Boot is a plus


• Familiarity with AWS services architecture and solution patterns is preferred


• Exposure to infrastructure as code, test automation, CI/CD, and containerization


• Ability to build reliable software that is able to withstand unreliable environments


• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks at a given time


• Ability to collaborate stake holders to understand business requirements


• Experience in managing technology vendor relationships

The Team

Fidelity Digital Assets℠, a Fidelity Investments Company, is developing a full-service enterprise-grade platform for storing, trading, and servicing digital assets, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Fidelity Digital Assets℠, embraces an entrepreneurial culture and startup mindset while serving as one of the most innovative business units within Fidelity Investments. Our global, diverse team of hundreds of forward-thinking professionals lead with agility and creativity to build solutions that bridge the gap between traditional institutional investors and their exposure to digital assets. The firm’s tenure and experience across multiple business lines present our employees with unprecedented access to knowledge, technology, and resources that help our team reshape the future of finance. Within Fidelity Digital Assets, the API Team will be responsible for designing, building, and documenting customer facing APIs for all of the features that are accessible to our users from our website today.

The base salary range for this position is $103,000-$218,000 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 coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career. Note, the application window closes when the position is filled or unposted.

Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.