Wells Fargo Senior Capital Markets Java Software Engineer 

United States, New Jersey 

216206973

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.

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

300 S Brevard Street, Charlotte, NC 28202

150 E 42nd St. - New York, NY 10017

Metro Park, 194 Wood Avenue South, Iselin, New Jersey 08830

Pay Range

$126,400.00 - $287,600.00

31 Mar 2025

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

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