Lead Specialty Software Engineer - Fixed Income eTrading

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer in Technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT) to work on a cross-asset electronic trading platform. This team currently manages a low-latency, high throughput. cross-asset trading platform and order management system. Responsibilities include integrating with eTrading venues and market data feeds, ensuring low-latency and high-reliability execution, implementing pricing, risk, and analytics models, supporting regulatory and compliance requirements and collaborating with traders, quants, product and other tech teams and troubleshooting and optimizing trading workflows
In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives on selected domains
• Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk
• Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost
• Lead, design, develop, test and implement applications and system components, tools and utilities, models, simulation, and analytics to manage complex business functions using sophisticated technologies
• Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature
• Lead team to ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Mentor less experienced software engineers
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers
• Lead team to achieve objectives
• Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years of experience with capital markets business and processes, e.g. - pricing of Cash products, Analytics, BBG APIS, trade lifecycle, electronic trading/algorithmic trading
• 5+ years of experience with Architect, design, and develop, unit and stress test high performing ALGO/AMM/Pricing/ECN/Exchange and Reference components that are integrated tightly to the entire electronic trading stack
• 5+ years of Experience handling/troubleshooting high speed market data, order routing, RFQ, RFS, Quotations, and Trades from multiple trading venues and broker-dealers
• 5+ years of Experience working with line of business partners, Line traders, technology teams, and Exchanges to document and troubleshoot production issues related eTrading Quoting, AMM, Inquiry, Post Trade Feeds flows and latency/Performance issues
• 5+ years of Experience working with E-trading business users and product team to establish and maintain a consistent test methodology and to resolve escalated issues during the testing process
• 5+ years of High-performance programming techniques in C++/Java/Python

Desired Qualifications:

• Advanced knowledge of Fixed Income E-trading flows, Venue Interaction and Position/Risk management in identifying, evaluating and resolving highly complex test problems
• Basic knowledge and understanding of statistic and mathematical modeling
• Basic knowledge and understanding of SEC, FINRA and international regulations
• Strong knowledge of core computer science design concepts, algorithms, and data structures
• Experience working on low latency high-throughput transactional systems
• Understand principles of Matching Engines

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Position offers a hybrid work schedule
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Location:

• 194 Wood Ave S. - Iselin, New Jersey 08830
• 300 S Brevard St.- Charlotte, North Carolina 28202

Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.
$159,000.00 - $305,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

Posting End Date:
8 Sep 2025
* Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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