Lead Specialty Software Engineer, Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

Location:
United States, Charlotte

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

Lead Specialty Software Engineer to join Corporate and Investment Banking Technology team. This strategic role centers on modernizing and expanding our Reference Data Platform, a critical application supporting Capital Markets business & trading. You will lead the architecture, design, and development of high-performance systems for ingesting, mastering, and distributing financial instruments reference data.

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
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
5+ years designing and implementing distributed systems using Java with expertise in memory management, concurrency, JMS, and native I/O
3+ years of Java 11+ (Java 17+ preferred)
3+ years of implementing microservices, preferably using Spring ecosystem (Boot, Batch and/or Data)
3+ years of SQL experience
2+ years of experience building event-driven architectures using Kafka, Solace etc

Nice to have:

Experience building cloud-ready solutions with Azure, GCP or OpenShift
Experience developing data APIs exposed via API gateways
Domain expertise in Financial Instrument Reference Data including integration with market data vendors
Proven track record in developing low-latency, high-reliability applications for financial services or trading platforms
Experience using distributed caching technologies (Apache Ignite, Redis)
Experience with Python for data transformation, enrichment, and data mastering workflows
Experience implementing rule-based data mastering systems
Front-end development experience with React
Strong foundation in object-oriented analysis and design, algorithms, and data structures
Excellent analytical and communication skills

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
September 20, 2025

Expiration:
September 25, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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