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Fidelity Investments

Vice President, Software Engineering (Electronic Trading)

AI summary of the role

Lead the design and development of next-generation electronic trading systems for Fidelity's Capital Markets division.

What you’ll do

  • Architect and develop distributed, event-driven electronic trading systems optimized for low latency and high throughput.
  • Design and implement complex algorithmic trading systems for equities and options.
  • Collaborate with internal and external teams to deliver robust and resilient systems.
  • Lead performance tuning and optimization efforts across the platform.

What you’ll bring

  • 20+ years of hands-on software design and development experience in the electronic trading domain.
  • 10+ years of technical leadership, managing a team, and mentoring software developers.
  • Expertise in C/C++, Python, and Linux.
  • Deep experience with low latency messaging systems (e.g., 29West/Ultra-Messaging, Kafka).

Technologies

C/C++ · Python · Linux · 29West/Ultra-Messaging · Kafka · KDB+ · FIX protocol · AWS · GitHub Copilot · CI/CD

About Fidelity Investments

Privately owned financial services firm offering brokerage, retirement plans, wealth management, and asset management to retail investors, employers, and institutions, with a proprietary tech-build culture.

Private Late · 5000+ people

Source and classification

Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:

Job Description: The Team Fidelity Wealth’s Trade Management Engineering group is responsible for building world-class electronic trading solutions for Fidelity’s Capital Markets division. We are a high-performing, fast-paced technology team working with cutting-edge tools to deliver low-latency, high-throughput trading platforms. Our work spans across internal and external teams to build seamless, end-to-end electronic trading workflows. The Role We are seeking a highly experienced software engineer to lead the design and development of next-generation trading systems. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building scalable, resilient, and high-performance trading infrastructure. You’ll collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and drive innovation in a mission-critical environment. Architect and develop distributed, event-driven electronic trading systems
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