Lead Specialty Software Engineer

Wells Fargo•Iselin, NJ

23h•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 candidate should specialize in Electronic Trading to join a dynamic team. As a Lead Senior Software Engineer, you will drive the design and evolution of the Spread Electronic Trading/Algo Trading platform, ensuring best-in-class performance and resiliency. You will lead the development of pricing and quoting frameworks that enable traders and quants to rapidly model and deploy execution logic across Credit, Munis, and Structured Products. You will architect and optimize the ET platform, balancing low-latency components with scalable services to support strategy deployment, monitoring, and analytics. You will oversee ECN and exchange integration, ensuring robust market data handling, smart order routing, and efficient execution across venues. Finally, you will embed hedging logic and risk management controls directly into the platform, delivering automated guardrails, real-time exposure monitoring, and compliance with regulatory standards—making this role central to both business growth and platform integrity.

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 experience in designing and building low latency, highly stable, and scalable electronic trading systems across Credit, Municipal, and Structured Products asset classes
5+ years of hands on expertise with real time pricing, RFQ workflows, market data ingestion, execution engines, STP integration, and performance critical components such as messaging, caching, threading, and automated trading controls, delivered within a resilient, enterprise grade e trading architecture.
5+ years of experience in electronic trading systems and financial markets
5+ years of experience with programming languages such as Java, Python or C++
4+ years of deep understanding of data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming
4+ years of experience electronic trading protocols, order types, market data feeds, and exchange connectivity
4+ years of experience with networking protocols, multicast, and TCP/IP

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in computer science/engineering
Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
Proficient with AI based IDEs and GitHub Copilot to accelerate coding, testing and debugging workflows.
Strong knowledge of Agentic AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Experienced in applying AI tools across the SDLC to automate and improve developer/Engineer productivity
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of delivering robust and scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment
Leadership experience, including the ability to mentor junior engineers, drive technical initiatives, and influence decision-making

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