Lead Specialty Software Engineer - Electronic Trading

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About this role:

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.

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In this role, you will:

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• 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++

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with FIX protocol implementations

• Advanced understanding of Fixed Income electronic trading flows, venue interaction, and position/risk man