Lead Java and Agentic AI Engineer - Capital Markets

Wells Fargo•Iselin, NJ

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Java and Agentic AI Engineer - Capital Markets to join our Prime Brokerage and Equity Finance & Futures (EF&F) Technology team. As part of a feature delivery team, you will help build the foundational framework that powers highly scalable, resilient, self‑healing, high‑throughput, and low‑latency solutions supporting Clearing and Market Making functions. In this role, you will be deeply involved in the architecture, design, and development of the platform, including writing fully automated functional, unit, and stress tests to ensure solution quality and reliability. The technology stack leverages on‑premises container platforms with the ability to burst into public cloud environments as needed. You will also leverage GenAI tools to produce high-quality code and maintain high productivity, and look at various technology existing SDLC processes to propose solutions to increase developer productivity across the organization using AI technologies.

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 Core Java development with expertise in memory management and concurrency
5+ years of experience with computing algorithms and data structures
5+ years of experience designing and implementing distributed systems
5+ years of object-oriented programming experience
5+ years of SQL experience
4+ years of experience in the securities industry with knowledge of financial instrument valuation, lifecycle, and risk management
2+ years of experience with in-memory cache architecture (e.g., Oracle Coherence, Redis)

Nice To Haves

3+ years of experience developing multi-tiered, low latency, highly reliable applications for Equity Swaps or Equity Derivatives Trading Desk
Advanced experience in capital markets, business and processes.
Understanding of risk and margin management
Good knowledge of trade lifecycle (confirmation, clearing and settlement)
Strong understanding of design patterns
Basic knowledge of SEC, FINRA, and international regulations for building technological solutions
Knowledge of technology platform development, including large-scale technology in a capital markets environment
Knowledge of application lifecycle from design and development to testing, implementation, and production support
Working knowledge of microservice, API servers, distributed, and client-server technologies
Familiarity with capital market concepts
Ability to build components across all functional domains
Excellent communication skills for a business user-facing role
A BS/BA degree or higher

Responsibilities

Develop software for various EF&F components as an individual contributor
Collaborate with Product Owners and users to understand requirements and manage the scope there after
Translate business specifications into functional specifications
Analyze, build new code and also refactor already built code, so that end solution is a scalable microservice architecture
Design and document existing, target, and smooth transition state architectures
Write high-quality, performant Java code using object-oriented principles and design patterns using AI agents
Create and modify RDBMS objects (tables, views, stored procedures, etc.)
Conduct thorough unit and functional testing and document development activities
Solve complex problems requiring a solid grasp of business domains
Ensure quality, maintainability, and extensibility of supported systems and risk applications
Build application/microservices that are zero touch for L1 support, and low touch for L2 support.