Lead Fixed Income Electronic Trading Software Engineer, Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

Location:
United States, New York ▼
Iselin
Charlotte

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

191000.00 - 305000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly skilled Lead Specialty Software Engineer specializing in Electronic Trading to join our dynamic team. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining electronic trading systems, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability. The candidate will work with cross-functional teams, provide technical leadership, and mentor junior engineers while fostering innovation and excellence.

Job Responsibility:

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

Requirements:

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. Fixed Income Electronic trading flows, algorithmic trading, Analytics, trade lifecycle
5+ years of experience with Architect, design, and develop, unit and stress test high performing ECN/Exchange gateways, RFQ, Pricing, AMM 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, 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 Java/Python/C++

Nice to have:

Experienced in FIX Protocol
Uses advanced knowledge of Fixed Income E-trading flows, Venue Interaction and Position/Risk management in identifying, evaluating and resolving highly complex test problems
Good understanding and working knowledge of core technology concepts in like networking, multi-threading, synchronization, data structures, algorithms, memory management, etc.
Basic knowledge and understanding of SEC, FINRA and international regulators
Domain expertise in Fixed Income (Rates, Spread) and FX , coupled with hands-on experience in building electronic trading platforms and/or components is a huge plus
Experience working on low latency high-throughput transactional systems
Experience in low-latency/real-time development and optimization

What we offer:

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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 26, 2025

Expiration:
September 21, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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