Lead Specialty Software Engineer - Electronic Trading, Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

Location:
India, Bengaluru

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer for Electronic Trading. The role involves leading complex initiatives, designing and developing low-latency trading applications, maintaining exchange connectivity protocols, and working on electronic trading areas like Exchange Connectivity, Algo Trading or time series database.

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 work experience, training, military experience, education
10+ years of experience in Design, implement, and optimize low-latency, high-throughput Java applications for financial trading
Experience in Electronic trading / Algorithmic Trading is MUST
Strong proficiency in Java 8+, with hands-on experience in multi-threaded and distributed systems
Develop and maintain protocols for connectivity with exchanges (e.g., FIX, ITCH, OUCH)
Experience with messaging systems (e.g., Solace, Aeron etc.) and real-time data processing
Knowledge of low-latency optimization techniques, including garbage collection tuning and efficient data structures

Nice to have:

Familiarity with financial markets, trading systems, and exchange platforms
Understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements in trading environments
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks like karate and cucumber, and version control (e.g., Git)

What we offer:

Equal opportunity employment
Accommodation for applicants with disabilities available upon request
Drug free workplace

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
September 26, 2025

Expiration:
October 07, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

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