Description
Principal BLOCKCHAN ENGINEER, Wallet Blockchain PLATFORMThe Role
As a Principal Blockchain Engineer on the Wallet Blockchain Platform team, you’ll get the opportunity to develop your skills and collaborate with engineers across Fidelity in a fun and dynamic environment. You will work closely with technical leaders and Architects to build a secure crypto platform utilizing modern software development practices. As a senior member of the team, you will mentor engineers on the best practices for Software development.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Batchelor's degree in computer science or related field required
- 8+ years' experience in software development using object-oriented programming languages like Java
- Experience with blockchains such as Ethereum, Bitcoin
- Experience building resilient services in Java
- Proficient in databases and SQL
- An understanding of microservice architecture and twelve factor app patterns
- Ability to build reliable software that can withstand unreliable environments
- Unit and integration test automation using JUnit
- Experience building and deploying applications using continuous integration pipelines and automated deployment tools such as Jenkins Core
- 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
- Work well in both a small agile team and independently, having a strong user focus
- 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
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms and containerization technologies such as Docker is a plus
- Experience with asynchronous workers and resilient messaging services such as SNS and SQS is a plus
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 adopts an entrepreneurial culture and startup approach 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 Wallet Blockchain Platform Team is responsible for the backend services and APIs that support digital assets transactions on networks such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The team will also lead tokenization efforts.
