About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer in technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT). Candidate should specialize in Electronic Trading to join our dynamic team. As a Lead Senior Software Engineer, you will drive the design and evolution of the Spread Electronic Trading/Algo Trading platform, ensuring it delivers best-in-class performance and resiliency. You will lead development of pricing and quoting frameworks that enable traders and quants to rapidly model and deploy execution logic across Credit, Munis, and Structured Products. You will architect and optimize the ET platform, balancing low-latency components with scalable services to support strategy deployment, monitoring, and analytics. You will oversee ECN and exchange integration, ensuring robust market data handling, smart order routing, and efficient execution across venues. Finally, you will embed hedging logic and risk management controls directly into the platform, delivering automated guardrails, real-time exposure monitoring, and compliance with regulatory standards—making this role central to both business growth and platform integrity.

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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 in designing and building lowlatency, highly stable, and scalable electronic trading systems across Credit, Municipal, and Structured Products asset classes
• 5+ years of handson expertise with realtime pricing, RFQ workflows, market data ingestion, execution engines, STP integration, and performancecritical components such as messaging, caching, threading, and automated trading controls, delivered within a resilient, enterprisegrade etrading architecture.
• 5+ years of experience in electronic trading systems and financial markets
• 5+ years of experience with programming languages such as Java, Python or C++
• 4+ years of deep understanding of data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming
• 4+ years of experience electronic trading protocols, order types, market data feeds, and exchange connectivity
• 4+ years of experience with networking protocols, multicast, and TCP/IP

Desired Qualifications:

• Masters degree in computer science/engineering
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
• Proficient with AIbased IDEs and GitHub Copilot to accelerate coding, testing and debugging workflows.
• Strong knowledge of Agentic AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Experienced in applying AI tools across the SDLC to automate and improve developer/Engineer productivity
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of delivering robust and scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment
• Leadership experience, including the ability to mentor junior engineers, drive technical initiatives, and influence decision-making

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 Locations:

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

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.

Posting End Date:

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