New York, NY

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com

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
• Hands-on development role in the ECN/Exchange connectivity team.
• Architect, design, and develop, unit and stress test high performing ECN/Exchange gateways that are integrated tightly to the entire electronic trading stack.
• Handling high speed market data, order routing, RFQ, RFS, Quotations, and Trades from multiple trading venues and broker-dealers.
• Will be a key participant in a small, focused and highly talented delivery team for front office trading development.
  Great opportunities exist across multiple asset-classes, including Fixed Income, FX and Equities.
• Design and develop extreme automated stress testing harnesses.
• Delve Into infrastructure tuning for high end electronic trading application platform.
• Participate in and conduct code review sessions, and provide process improvements.
• Domain expertise in Fixed Income, FX and/or Equities, coupled with hands-on experience in building electronic trading platforms and/or components is a huge plus.
• Experienced in building high speed ECN/Exchange connectivity in one or more areas of high performing market data, client connectivity, order routing, RFQ, RFS, Quotation and trades.
• High performance programming techniques in Java/C++.
  Ability to evaluate new technologies; ability to conduct enterprise wide research.
• Experienced in FIX Protocol.
• Good understanding and working knowledge of core technology concepts in like networking, multi-threading, synchronization, data structures, algorithms, memory management, etc.
• Experienced in diagnosing performance bottlenecks and performance tuning.
• Linux programming environment familiarity.
  Proficient in debugging methods and tools like (GDB, Address Sanitizer, JProfile etc.).
  
  Talent - Good to Have
• Knowledge and implementation of multiple Languages (Rust, C#, Python).
• Domain expertise in Fixed Income, FX and/or Equities, coupled with hands-on experience in building electronic trading platforms and components is a huge plus.
• Prior experience in building high throughput, low latency electronic trading and client connectivity systems.
• Data modeling experience.
• Extensive experience in the capital markets business and processes, e.g. trade lifecycle, electronic trading/algorithmic trading.
• Good understanding and/or working knowledge of Compliance and Regulatory needs in building capital markets electronic trading applications.
• Educational Requirements - Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science/Engineering.

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 securities industry experience
• 5+ years of Low Latency systems development or implementation experience
• 5+ years of algorithmic development experience
• 5 + years of Core Java experience
• 5 + years of experience supporting electronic trading (etrading) platforms
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience in one or a combination of the following: securities, quants, artificial intelligence, or machine learning

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years of equity markets experience
• Knowledge and understanding of equity and option trading
• A Masters degree or higher in computer science or finance
• Basic knowledge of industry regulations related to building technological solutions

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Pay Range

$138,500.00 - $287,600.00 Annual

Benefits

• Information about Wells Fargo's employee benefits

We Value Diversity

At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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