Lead Specialty Software Engineer - Electronic Trading

Wells Fargo•Iselin, NJ

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer in technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT). The team specializes in Electronic Trading. This position is responsible for providing technical leadership in the design, development, and support of high-performance electronic trading platforms. The role requires close collaboration with product partners, traders, quants, technology teams, and platform engineers to ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, and compliant with enterprise risk standards. In this role, you will lead complex initiatives within the Electronic Trading technology domain, shaping long-term technical strategy and providing hands-on leadership across the architecture, design, development, testing, and production deployment of trading applications, services, and supporting tools. You will drive modernization and efficiency through process optimization, platform standardization, microservices adoption, and cost-efficient resource usage, while ensuring all systems meet enterprise risk, compliance, and regulatory controls. The role requires close collaboration with product owners, traders, quants, platform engineering, and production support teams to deliver low-latency, resilient, and scalable solutions. You will also apply governed AI-assisted development techniques—including LLM-assisted code generation, test automation, diagnostics, and observability—and support the adoption of standardized, auditable LLM integrations (such as MCP-based services), ensuring alignment with Wells Fargo’s security, risk, and compliance standards.

Requirements

5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education
5+ years of experience supporting capital markets businesses and processes, including Fixed Income electronic trading, algorithmic trading, analytics, and trade lifecycle
5+ years of experience architecting, designing, developing, and testing high-performance ECN/Exchange gateways, RFQ, pricing, and AMM components integrated with end-to-end electronic trading platforms
5+ years of experience handling and troubleshooting high-speed market data, order routing, RFQ/RFS, quotations, and trading flows across multiple venues and broker-dealers
5+ years of experience working directly with traders, business partners, technology teams, and exchanges to diagnose and resolve production issues related to trading flows, latency, and performance
5+ years of experience establishing testing methodologies and resolving escalated issues during functional, integration, and performance testing
5+ years of experience with high-performance programming in Java and/or Python and/or C++

Nice To Haves

Experience with FIX protocol implementations
Advanced understanding of Fixed Income electronic trading flows, venue interaction, and position/risk management
Strong working knowledge of networking, multi-threading, synchronization, data structures, algorithms, and memory management
Basic understanding of SEC, FINRA, and other applicable regulatory requirements
Domain expertise in Fixed Income (Rates, Spread) and/or FX with hands-on experience developing electronic trading platforms or core components
Experience supporting low-latency, high-throughput transactional systems
Experience using Large Language Model (LLM)–based tools within enterprise development environments for productivity, diagnostics, or automation use cases
Familiarity with agentic patterns and Model Context Protocol (MCP)–based integrations for standardized, secure LLM interactions is a plus

Responsibilities

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 Partner team to achieve objectives with production support and platform engineering teams effectively