Vice President of Engineering

Fidelity Financial Services

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Work type
On-site
Location
Boston, MA
Salary
$140,000–$285,000 / yr
Posted
14 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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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 · Vice President of Engineering

The Vice President of Engineering will join Fidelity Labs as the technical and engineering organizational owner of ARGOS, a foundational platform for safe, scalable, and compliant AI capabilities. Reporting to the Managing Director, you will define the technical direction of the platform, build and lead a high-caliber engineering team, and partner with legal, compliance, and security teams to bring AI into production. You will be responsible for platform architecture ownership and building systems from scratch. The role requires expertise in low-latency distributed systems, LLMs, log management architectures, and navigating regulated industries. Required technologies include Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS CDK CLI, and Golang. You must demonstrate proficiency in AWS and have a background in software engineering to solve complex problems in the fintech space.

What you'll do

  • Serve as the technical and engineering organizational owner of the ARGOS foundational AI platform.
  • Define the technical direction and architecture for safe, scalable, and compliant AI capabilities.
  • Build and lead a high-caliber engineering team of at least 15 engineers.
  • Develop low-latency distributed systems using Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Golang.
  • Partner with legal, compliance, and security teams to bring AI products into production responsibly.
  • Make high-stakes technical decisions and document outcomes for senior leadership.
  • Provide clear progress reporting on risks, tradeoffs, and milestones to executive leadership.
  • Build and scale complex systems from scratch within a regulated financial environment.

What we're looking for

  • You must have 13+ years of software engineering experience, including 5 years leading engineering teams.
  • You must have at least 10 years of professional software engineering experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS CDK CLI, and/or Golang.
  • You must have a Bachelor's degree with 15+ years of experience or a Master's degree with 13+ years of experience in Computer Science.
  • You must have experience hiring and managing teams of at least 15 engineers.
  • You must have deep AWS knowledge and experience crafting low-latency distributed systems.
  • You must have hands-on experience with LLMs, log management architectures, and navigating compliance in regulated industries.
  • You must be able to make high-stakes technical decisions and provide clear progress reporting to senior leadership.
  • An advanced degree or equivalent experience in ML/AI research is a plus (preferred).

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