Principal Rust Engineer, DeFi Yield Gen

The Role

As a Principal Software Engineer on the DeFi Yield Gen 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 yield generation 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

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field required
• Design and implement highly optimized, low-latency software for automated trading systems and analytical platforms.
• Enhance and maintain the DeFi trading platform, ensuring robustness and scalability.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to deliver custom software solutions for developing strategies for trading Digital Assets.
• Provide ongoing support for trading systems and research platforms
• 8+ years' of progressive experience in software engineering using programming languages like RUST and Python
• Ability to build reliable software that can withstand unreliable environments
• Experience building unit and integration tests
• 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 is a plus
• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases is a plus
• Familiarity with L1 & L2 blockchains such as Ethereum, is a plus
• An understanding of microservice architecture 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® 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 DeFi Yield Gen Team is responsible for the frontend, backend services and APIs that support DeFi Yield Generation Platform.

Company Overview

At Fidelity, we are focused on making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in crafting and championing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our dedication to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their outstanding perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit Fidelitycareers.com

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer.

Dynamic Working Associates are expected to be in-person in the office, currently it is one week every other week in a month (bi-weekly) which could potentially change.