Capital Markets Principal Engineer Java Developer jobs at Wells Fargo

In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
• Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
• Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership
• Ensure high availability and performance of production systems through proactive monitoring and incident response
• Design and implement scalability, reliability, and observability strategies for cloud and on-premises environments
• Define SLIs (Service Level Indicators), SLOs (Service Level Objectives), and Error Budgets to improve system reliability

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 7+ years of experience leading observability and monitoring tooling - Splunk, AppDynamics, Splunk Observability, Grafana, Open Telemetry
• 7+ years of experience in Infrastructure (Windows and Linux) support
• 5+ years of experience in proven success in toil reduction initiatives
• 5+ years of experience in cloud application management especially OpenShift Container Platform

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model
• Ability to troubleshoot the network stack, operating system stack and middleware
• Knowledge and understanding of AI capabilities
• Ability to quickly script for new alarms and execute according to company approved alerting tools
• Ability to dynamically engage and attend high impact production incidents and troubleshoot to resolution and provide immediate incident analysis both written and spoken
• Has set up distributed tracing across an internet topology for full health check and with the ability to pinpoint problem source
• Mentor the platform teams by training, documenting, certifying and building the teams skill set
• Demonstrateknowledge/understandingof emerging technologies, industry trends, and outside perspectives, and communicate relevance to the organizations strategic and tactical goals
• Lead proof of concepts and prototyping
• Lead execution of critical/complex project deliverables
• Strong communication with the ability to communicate on all levels of the organization

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work additional hours as needed
• Position offers a hybrid work schedule
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Posting Location:

• 194 Wood Ave S. Iselin, New Jersey 08830
• 150 E 42nd St. New York, New York 10017
• 300 S Brevard St., Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
• 1525 W W T Harris Blvd. Charlotte, North Carolina 28262

NC- Charlotte Pay Range: $159,000 – 254,000 Annually

NJ- Iselin Pay Range: $175,000 – 279,000 Annually

NY- New York Pay Range: $191,000 – 305,000 Annually

Pay Range

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

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 Core Java development with expertise in memory management and concurrency.
• 5+ years of experience with computing algorithms and data structures.
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience with in-memory cache architectures (e.g., Oracle Coherence, Redis).
• 5+ years of object-oriented programming experience.
• 5+ years of SQL experience.
• 4+ years of experience in the securities industry with knowledge of financial instrument valuation, lifecycle, and risk management.
• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Advanced experience in capital markets business and processes.
• Understanding of risk and margin management.
• Good knowledge of trade lifecycle (confirmation, clearing and settlement).
• Strong understanding of design patterns.
• 3+ years of experience developing multi-tiered, low latency, highly reliable applications for Equity Swaps or Equity Derivatives Trading Desk.
• Basic knowledge of SEC, FINRA, and international regulations for building technological solutions.
• Knowledge of technology platform development, including large-scale technology in a capital markets environment.
• Knowledge of application lifecycle from design and development to testing, implementation, and production support.
• Working knowledge of microservice, API servers, distributed, and client-server technologies.
• Familiarity with capital market concepts.
• Ability to build components across all functional domains.
• Excellent communication skills for a business user-facing role.
• A BS/BA degree or higher.

Job Expectations:

• Develop software for various EF&F components as an individual contributor.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and users to understand requirements.
• Translate business specifications into functional specifications.
• Analyze and refactor legacy code to fit into a scalable microservice architecture.
• Design and document existing, target, and smooth transition state architectures.
• Write high-quality, performant Java code using object-oriented principles and design patterns.
• Create and modify RDBMS objects (tables, views, stored procedures, etc.).
• Conduct thorough unit and functional testing and document development activities.
• Solve complex problems requiring a solid grasp of business domains.
• Ensure quality, maintainability, and extensibility of supported systems and risk applications.
• Build applications requiring minimal or no L2 support.
• Quickly learn new business areas in capital markets technology.
• Leverage GenAI tools to produce high-quality code and maintain high productivity.
• Keen eye to look at various technology process and come up with proposal to solve it using AI technologies

Pay Range

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

The Lead Software Engineer will work with a highly talented and energized team of Engineers to take care of design, development and unit testing for WIM Advisor Platform applications. You will work closely with business partners and stakeholders to provide solutions for business requirements. You will be responsible for working with integration partners to establish application integrations with internal and external applications.
The Lead Software Engineer will develop an Internal Intranet application for the Financial Advisors and Associates with heavy integration into RWS Tridion Content Manager. This Lead Software Engineer will be working on a scrum team that will be working within a .NET Architecture.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact

• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines

• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs

• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors

• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives

• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals

• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 5+ Years of .NET development and Microsoft Technologies

• 5+ Years of Angular Development experience

• 5+ Years of Lead developer experience

• 5+ API Development Experience

• 4 +Experience in automated testing (such as Selenium)

• 4+ Years of experience working in an agile environment

• 4+ Years of financial services experience

• 4+Experience in leading Cloud Development and migration to Azure/Openshift

• 4+ Apigee Development Experience

• 4+ Working creating architectural diagrams and facilitating infrastructure setup

• 1+ Tridion Development Experience

• 1+ Github Copilot Experience

Locations:

• 2801 Market St., F&L Building, St. Louis, MO

• 300 S. Brevard St., Charlotte, NC

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work on-site at approved location

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Pay Range

$119,000.00- $187,000.00Annual

Posting End Date:

30 Sep 2025

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

About this role:

The Lead Full Stack Software Engineer will support the design, development, testing, documentation, and analysis of specific modules or features of new or upgraded fixed income and equity trading software systems and products, which require knowledge in a niche area.

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
• 3 years of .NET and/or C# development experience

Desired Qualifications:

• 3 years of Angular development experience
• FIX protocol (Financial Information eXchange) experience
• MongoDB development experience
• Experience working with Cloud based platforms, Openshift preferred
• Trading experience and knowledge of Equities, Options, Fixed Income, Syndicates, etc.

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work on-site at posted location

• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Demonstrate knowledge of Boomberg TSOX, SSOX, and TOMS platforms. Understanding fixed income trading flows, including Alternative Trading Systems (ATS) such as ICE Bonds TMC, and the processing and settlement of fixed income securities.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to support CTO Automation and internally developed applications. This senior-level position leads system design and architecture in partnership with Enterprise Architecture and senior developers to deliver technology solutions for Automation products, internally developed applications including:

• Major Incident Management (MIM application)
• Site Reliability Engineering – internally developed applications
• Workload scheduling (Autosys, CA7)

In this role, you will:

• Create target state vision through design standards and patterns.
• Review and approve new standards, patterns, and practices.
• Document current state through technical design documentation.
• Advise on implementation design to ensure alignment with best practices.
• Provide strategic direction and expertise to leadership on innovative business solutions.
• Engage with professionals and managers across the enterprise to influence product roadmaps and drive adoption.
• Build strong relationships with Enterprise Architecture and Technology Principals.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Principal Engineers, and internal customers to develop scalable solutions.
• Lead support for critical applications and customer journeys, including high-priority incident resolution and postmortems.
• Automate operational metrics and processes (e.g., intake, availability, SLO/SLI adherence, error budgets).
• Maintain awareness of industry best practices and recommend innovations.
• Own the full software development lifecycle from concept to deployment.
• Stay current on emerging trends in AI, software development, and system architecture.
• Advocate for software engineering best practices, including test-driven development and continuous delivery.
• Contribute to internal forums and communities of practice.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military service, or education.
• 5+ years designing and building observability solutions (Splunk, Grafana, Elastic, AppDynamics, Prometheus).
• 5+ years of engineering and support experience on Linux/Unix and Windows servers.
• 3+ years of experience with cloud technologies.
• 3+ years supporting enterprise-level complex applications and platforms.

Desired Qualifications:

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Strong technical communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
• Robust experience with modern SDLC and CI/CD practices.
• Strong proficiency in React and its ecosystem (Redux, React Router, etc.).
• Familiarity with Selenium, Playwright, and/or Cypress for automated testing.
• Experience supporting both in-house and commercial off-the-shelf software.
• Self-starter with curiosity to learn new technologies and ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in computer security incident response activities for moderately complex events
• Conduct technical investigation of security related incidents and post incident digital forensics to identify causes and recommend future mitigation strategies
• Provide security consulting on medium projects for internal clients to ensure conformity with corporate information, security policy, and standards
• Design, document, test, maintain, and provide issue resolution recommendations for moderately complex security solutions related to networking, cryptography, cloud, authentication and directory services, email, internet, applications, and endpoint security
• Review and correlate security logs
• Utilize subject matter knowledge in industry leading security solutions and best practices to implement one or more components of information security such as availability, integrity, confidentiality, risk management, threat identification, modeling, monitoring, incident response, access management, and business continuity
• Identify security vulnerabilities and issues, perform risk assessments, and evaluate remediation alternatives
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 2+ years of in-depth knowledge and troubleshooting of HTTP based Web Applications
• 2+ years knowledge and understanding of implementing WAF signatures or virtual patches
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Web Application Firewall technologies (Akamai cloud based WAF, Imperva on prem WAF, F5 on prem WAF)
• 2+ years of intermediate to advanced level experience with scripting/automation using tools such as: Bash, Ansible, Playbook/Role Development, PowerShell, Python, etc.
• 2+ years advanced understanding of Network concepts like DNS, Firewall and Load Balancing
• 1+ years of proven experience with change and incident management practices in medium to large enterprise environments
• 1+ years of Agile Scrum or Kanban methodologies
• 1+ years of basic understanding of TLS, Certificates, and MTLS

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Knowledge and understanding of application firewalls
• Knowledge and understanding of data security: firewalls and perimeter security
• Knowledge and understanding of network or network security
• Knowledge and understanding of network security and network protocols
• Knowledge and understanding of network security architectures and standards development
• Knowledge and understanding of network security firewall hardware, software, and configurations
• Knowledge and understanding of network security including firewalls and IDS
• Knowledge and understanding of web application: firewall concepts or security certifications
• Information Security Frameworks and standards (FFIEC, NIST, ISO) experience

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants
• this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship
• Willingness to work on-site at stated location on the job opening

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

About this role:

As a Lead Software Engineer within(part of Enterprise Functions Technology), you will lead the design, development, and deployment of full-stack solutions that are secure, scalable, and resilient. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise-grade applications and services, while also contributing to the advancement of AI/ML and Generative AI capabilities across the organization.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor
• Architect and build scalable, secure, and observable systems in cloud-native environments (Azure, GCP, Kubernetes)
• Drive AI/ML and GenAI initiatives, contributing to model development, integration, and deployment
• Collaborate with SREs and platform engineers to enhance system reliability, telemetry, and automation
• Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices across the team
• Participate in system design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and lead root cause analysis efforts
• Contribute to the evolution of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in full-stack software development
• Proficiency in Java , React , TypeScript , and Spring Boot
• Strong understanding of system design , data structures , and algorithms
• Experience with RESTful APIs , microservices , and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, or OpenShift)
• Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk)
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, GitAction, Artifactory

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with GraphQL , Apollo , or content-driven web applications
• Hands-on experience with Crafting effective prompts for LLMs and leveraging Python for integration and ML model development
• Exposure to AIOps , SRE principles , and infrastructure as code
• Strong communication skills and ability to present technical concepts to leadership
• Experience with NoSQL databases , SQL optimization , and data modeling
• Background in AI/ML and Generative AI projects (e.g., model training, prompt engineering, integration)

Job Expectations:

• Hybrid work environment with occasional travel (up to 5%)
• Flexibility to work outside regular hours as needed
• Commitment to continuous learning and innovation

Pay Range

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.