Front Office Markets – Strategic Risk UI Developer – Vice President

Wells Fargo•Charlotte, NC

2d•$185,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a front-office UI developer with a strong front-end JavaScript background to join our growing team in Securities Quantitative Analytics and will help own the vision, design and delivery of a next‑generation user interface platform serving the end‑to‑end needs of the CIB Quant organization. Vasara is the next generation strategic risk platform for the bank. It is an ambitious, greenfield initiative to tackle the bank's risk computation challenges within capital markets, from ticking risk for trading desks to market risk, finance, and capital calculations such as Clean P&L, FRTB and CCAR. Vasara is a joint venture between Technology and Quants, and you will be working within the Quant organization, with a focus on specific risk management and pricing solutions for our trading partners. The solutions will be tailored to practical needs, but expected to be asset agnostic, so that we achieve maximum consistency and reusability. A successful applicant will be a quantitative developer in the Quantitative Strategies Team in Wells Fargo Securities, with a focus on Vasara development. You will work directly with traders, risk managers, and fellow quants to design and deliver high-impact risk and pricing solutions.

Requirements

5+ years of Securities Quantitative Analytics experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Nice To Haves

3+ years of building modern web user interfaces (UI) with a passion for adopting best practices in performance, testing and observability frameworks
3+ years of Markets related experience
2+ years of experience building desktop applications, ideally at a financial firm with strict requirements for security.
2+ years of experience working with large-scale data, specifically reports where querying and rendering live ticking data was at the core of your responsibility, Deephaven preferred
2+ years of full stack experience working with user interfaces that deal directly with a backend server side platform.
Experience with modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3 to build responsive, maintainable, and high performance web applications..
Experience with AGGrid, AGChart, Redux Toolkit, SheetJS etc.
Experience with Build automation tools like OpenShift, Jenkins and CI/CD tools such as AWS, Azure or similar tools.
Demonstrate proficiency in one or more programming languages in working context but not limited to: Typescript, JavaScript, Java, C++, Python, Go, PHP.
Must be able to show proficiency in style-compiled code such as JSS or TSS.
Experience communicating effectively in an agile team environment with our traders, PMs, engineers, or anyone beyond your team org to plan features and execute tasks.
Hands-on experience with JavaScript-based front-end and runtime technologies such as React, Angular, Node.js and npm, and associated test frameworks like Playwright, Jest, Jasmine.

Responsibilities

Own the vision, design and delivery of a next‑generation user interface platform serving the end‑to‑end needs of the CIB Quant organization.
Act as a senior contributor to the design and implementation of front-office risk and pricing solutions, delivering impactful enhancements to trading desks and risk managers
Build desktop-grade, high-performance user interfaces that expose complex risk analytics in a clear, intuitive, and scalable way.
Develop deep expertise in the Vasara risk data model and analytics framework, contributing to its evolution and long-term architecture.
Be a part of a collaborative and fast-growing engineering team that fosters learning, belonging, and impact.
Act as a technical leader within the team – mentoring others, influencing design decisions, and helping shape new initiatives.
Drive adoption of engineering best practices across UI, backend integration, testing, observability, and deployment