Trading Engineer, Digital Assets

Fidelity Financial Services

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Work type
On-site
Location
Jersey City, NJ
Salary
$107,000–$216,000 / yr
Posted
15 days ago
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Similar $182k
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This role pays less than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $134,725–$229,525 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $162k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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About Fidelity Financial Services

Fidelity Investments is one of the largest financial services companies in the world, offering brokerage services, mutual funds, retirement planning, wealth management, and life insurance to individuals and institutions. Industry: Financial Services & Investment Management

Fidelity Financial Services currently has 141 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $107,000–$216,000 across 35 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Trading Engineer, Digital Assets

The Trading Engineer - Digital Assets joins the Trading team to develop high-quality, maintainable software solutions in an agile environment. This hands-on role involves writing code for product features, building secure and scalable cloud-based services, and implementing high-performance algorithms for crypto trading. The engineer will collaborate with stakeholders to deliver business-critical initiatives while mentoring junior team members. Key technical requirements include extensive experience with core Java technologies, relational and time series databases, and designing APIs, distributed systems, and resilient messaging services. The role requires proficiency in microservice architecture, version control, and continuous integration. The work focuses on building a full-service enterprise-grade platform for storing and trading digital assets, specifically managing platform services like crossing engines, smart routers, and market data aggregators in low-latency, high-throughput environments.

What you'll do

  • Write code for product features to build secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-based services.
  • Implement high-performance algorithms specifically for crypto trading.
  • Design and develop APIs, distributed systems, and asynchronous workers.
  • Manage software delivery using continuous integration and continuous deployment practices.
  • Guide and coach junior engineers to develop their technical skills.
  • Work with business partners to contribute to business-critical initiatives.
  • Maintain and optimize low-latency trading systems and messaging products.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field required.
  • At least 6 years of software engineering experience required.
  • Extensive experience with core Java technologies required.
  • Working knowledge of relational and time series databases required.
  • Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, asynchronous workers, and resilient messaging services required.
  • Understanding of microservice architecture and cloud-based deployments required.
  • Knowledge of Agile methodologies or iterative development processes required.
  • Experience in Capital markets or Crypto Currency specifically with exposure to Trading, Algo Trading (preferred).

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