Lead Angular Software Engineer

Wells Fargo Bank•New York, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT). This role falls into Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Capital Markets, Fixed Income Spread Technology. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on designing, building, and evolving modern, high-performance user interfaces that deliver real-time pricing, risk, P&L, and electronic trading capabilities across Credit, Municipal, and Structured Products desks. The Fixed Income Spread Technology team builds and owns real-time pricing, risk, and P&L systems along with a sophisticated front-end eTrading platform for Spread products including Credit, Municipal, and Structured Products. The team works directly with Front Office traders, Middle Office, and Product partners to deliver highly responsive, data-driven UI experiences supporting intraday trading and end-of-day processing. This role leads the design and delivery of modern, high-performance UI applications using Angular and TypeScript for real-time trading and analytics platforms. The engineer will architect scalable, monorepo-based UI solutions using Nx, implementing modular Angular frameworks with shared libraries, lazy loading, reusable components, and consistent workspace standards. Responsibilities include building rich, responsive user interfaces with modern CSS frameworks, managing complex client-side state with NgRx or similar patterns, and consuming real-time data via streaming and messaging technologies such as WebSockets or Solace. The role emphasizes UI performance optimization for low-latency, high-frequency trading use cases, close collaboration with UX designers to translate Figma designs into accessible and maintainable components, and strong engineering discipline across code quality, testing, CI/CD, and production readiness. The position also involves close partnership with backend, product, and front-office stakeholders, along with mentoring junior engineers, providing technical leadership, and troubleshooting complex UI and integration issues in a real-time production environment.

Requirements

5+ years of 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 UI development using Angular and TypeScript
3+ years of experience with UI testing frameworks such as Jasmine, Karma, Jest, Cypress, Playwright, or similar
2+ years of experience with Nx monorepos, including workspace structure, dependency graph management, and build optimization

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with state management libraries, particularly NgRx
Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and modern CSS libraries / design systems
Experience developing UIs that consume real-time data via WebSockets, Solace, AMPS, or similar technologies
Experience establishing and enforcing ESLint-based code standards across large UI codebases
Strong experience working in Agile / Scrum SDLC environments
Experience with desktop container technologies such as OpenFin
Capital Markets Fixed Income domain experience, including pricing, risk, P&L, and trade lifecycle
Experience building low-latency eTrading or front-office trading applications
Familiarity with responsive and accessible (WCAG-compliant) UI development
Server-side development experience (Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, or event-driven architectures) is a strong plus
Experience collaborating with backend teams on API design, messaging schemas, and performance optimization
Experience integrating Nx with CI/CD pipelines and enterprise build systems is a plus

Responsibilities

Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor