Wells Fargo

Lead Angular Software Engineer

Wells Fargo$119K — $224K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of Software Engineering experience
  • 5+ years of UI development with Angular and TypeScript
  • 3+ years with UI testing frameworks like Jasmine or Jest
  • 2+ years with Nx monorepos for build optimization

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex technology initiatives with broad impacts
  • Develop standards and best practices for engineering solutions
  • Design, code, test, debug, and document projects
  • Analyze large-scale technology solutions for business objectives
  • Influence and lead technology team towards new initiatives
  • Collaborate with technical experts to resolve complex issues
  • Mentor junior engineers and lead projects

Benefits

  • Health benefits
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Paid time off
  • Disability benefits
  • Life and accident insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Commuter benefits
Full Job Description

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Technology as part of

Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT). This role falls into Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Capital Markets, Fixed Income Spread Technology. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on designing, building, and evolving modern, high-performance user interfaces that deliver real-time pricing, risk, P&L, and electronic trading capabilities across Credit, Municipal, and Structured Products desks.

The Fixed Income Spread Technology team builds and owns real-time pricing, risk, and P&L systems along with a sophisticated front-end eTrading platform for Spread products including Credit, Municipal, and Structured Products. The team works directly with Front Office traders, Middle Office, and Product partners to deliver highly responsive, data-driven UI experiences supporting intraday trading and end-of-day processing.

This role leads the design and delivery of modern, high-performance UI applications using Angular and TypeScript for real-time trading and analytics platforms. The engineer will architect scalable, monorepo-based UI solutions using Nx, implementing modular Angular frameworks with shared libraries, lazy loading, reusable components, and consistent workspace standards. Responsibilities include building rich, responsive user interfaces with modern CSS frameworks, managing complex client-side state with NgRx or similar patterns, and consuming real-time data via streaming and messaging technologies such as WebSockets or Solace. The role emphasizes UI performance optimization for low-latency, high-frequency trading use cases, close collaboration with UX designers to translate Figma designs into accessible and maintainable components, and strong engineering discipline across code quality, testing, CI/CD, and production readiness. The position also involves close partnership with backend, product, and front-office stakeholders, along with mentoring junior engineers, providing technical leadership, and troubleshooting complex UI and integration issues in a real-time production environment.

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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 experience with UI development using Angular and TypeScript
  • 3+ years of experience with UI testing frameworks such as Jasmine, Karma, Jest, Cypress, Playwright, or similar
  • 2+ years of experience with Nx monorepos, including workspace structure, dependency graph management, and build optimization


Desired Qualifications:

  • Hands-on experience with state management libraries, particularly NgRx
  • Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and modern CSS libraries / design systems
  • Experience developing UIs that consume real-time data via WebSockets, Solace, AMPS, or similar technologies
  • Experience establishing and enforcing ESLint-based code standards across large UI codebases
  • Strong experience working in Agile / Scrum SDLC environments
  • Experience with desktop container technologies such as OpenFin
  • Capital Markets Fixed Income domain experience, including pricing, risk, P&L, and trade lifecycle
  • Experience building low-latency eTrading or front-office trading applications
  • Familiarity with responsive and accessible (WCAG-compliant) UI development
  • Server-side development experience (Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, or event-driven architectures) is a strong plus
  • Experience collaborating with backend teams on API design, messaging schemas, and performance optimization
  • Experience integrating Nx with CI/CD pipelines and enterprise build systems is a plus


Job Expectations:

  • This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

  • Relocation assistance is not available for this position

  • Position offers a hybrid work schedule

Posting Location:

  • 150 E 42nd St., New York, NY 10017
  • 300 S Brevard St., Charlotte, NC 28202
  • 194 Wood Ave S.- Iselin, New Jersey 08830

    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 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:

    14 Jun 2026

    *Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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