Lead Specialty Software Engineer

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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). Candidate should specialize in Electronic Trading to join our dynamic team. As a Lead Senior Software Engineer, you will drive the design and evolution of the Spread Electronic Trading/Algo Trading platform, ensuring it delivers best-in-class performance and resiliency. You will lead 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.

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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 team to achieve objectives

* Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively

Required Qualifications:

* 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

Desired

Qualifications:

* 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 Git Hub Copilot to accelerate coding, testing and debugging workflows.

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