Principal Engineer - RIA Platform Technology

About the vision:
This is an exciting time to be in Wealth Management Technology. AI is transforming every aspect of our business. Markets are moving to tokenized, on-chain and 24x7. Our customers are expecting seamless and compelling end-to-end digital wealth solutions. The Digital & Trading Technology team is at the center of enabling this; join us in shaping the future of wealth. This role is specifically aligned to engineers supporting trading connectivity and FIX-based execution platforms within Wealth Management Technology.
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer with deep FIX protocol experience to support and evolve our trading and market connectivity platforms. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, serving as a FIX subject matter expert while helping drive broader standards, resiliency, and modernization across trading systems.
Our team includes 300+ engineers across the US and India, with primary hubs in New York/New Jersey, Charlotte (NC), and St. Louis (MO). This industry award winning team has a strong track record of delivering business value through innovative, cutting-edge solutions. Our engineers are passionate about AI and use AI-driven development tools as part of a modern, full-stack engineering culture. We leverage both Kubernetes based on-prem cloud and public cloud infrastructure to deploy our solutions. Our full stack engineers have the flexibility to collaborate with peers in the office three days a week and stay focused on delivery through partnership with a dedicated first-line support organization. Our Agile product model promotes close collaboration and shared ownership with the business, offering meaningful opportunities to deepen business expertise while delivering highly impactful solutions.
Winner of Best Use of Tech in Private Banking/Wealth Management, Winner of Gold Stevie Award for Technology Excellence New Product of the Year, Winner of Best Mobile Strategy Initiative for the American Financial Technology Awards.
In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large-scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years of hands-on backend software development experience using Java or C#
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with the FIX protocol (FIX 4.x or FIX 5.0), including session and application layers
• 3+ years of experience onboarding, certifying, and supporting FIX connections with external counterparties (e.g., broker-dealers, exchanges, ECNs, or vendors)
• 3+ years of experience monitoring and troubleshooting FIX session issues, including sequence gaps, disconnects, heartbeat failures, and message rejections
• 3+ years of experience designing and building integration services or APIs in trading or real-time systems
• 2+ years of hands-on experience supporting electronic trading systems, including order routing, execution processing, and related FIX message flows

Desired Qualifications

• Experience coordinating FIX certification, UAT, and go-live activities with external broker-dealers, exchanges, ECNs, or vendors
• Experience working directly with counterparty technical teams to resolve connectivity, session stability, and message-mapping issues
• Experience analyzing FIX logs and message flows to diagnose application-level and session-level issues
• Familiarity with FIX connectivity infrastructure, including TCP/TLS networking, firewall rules, and extranet or vendor-managed connectivity providers
• Experience building or contributing to monitoring and alerting for FIX session health, message throughput, and latency
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and container platforms such as Kubernetes
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, source control, and automated testing in regulated or highly available environments
• Familiarity with market data or trading platforms supporting real-time or near real-time processing
• Experience conducting code reviews, supporting release readiness, and enforcing engineering best practices
• Experience using tools and practices related to application security and vulnerability management

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work in the office at one of the posted locations
• Willingness to participate in rotational on-call or off-hours support
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.
$119,000.00 - $224,000.00
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:
7 May 2026
* Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
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.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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