Wells Fargo Lead Software Engineer - Electronic Trading Vice President 

United Kingdom, England, City of London 

993408314

About this role:

In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of solving some of the most complex engineering challenges in capital markets—optimizing for speed, throughput, and reliability in real-time market environments. You’ll own the architecture and development of high-performance systems.

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:

• Experience in Specialty Software Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Development experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience of building large scale Java applications is needed.
• In-depth knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Solid background in Linux commands, Linux system calls, Linux operating system features, and low latency system tuning is desired.
• Solid knowledge in threading, thread to thread communication, process management, data structure and thread synchronization, shared memory constructs, and finite state machine design and implementation.
• Working knowledge on networking protocols (TCP/IP, multicast) is a must.
• Knowledgeable in one or more leading vendor or open-source messaging platform.
• Ability to produce technology platforms of high capacity, high volume, high throughput and low latency.

Desired Qualifications:

• C++ development experience.
• Experience in building market data distribution systems.
• Working knowledge in building high capacity, high volume, low latency technology for Electronic Trading modules such as ALGO, Smart Order Router, and/or Order Management Systems.
• Server and desktop hardware knowledge.
• Infrastructure (Server, Network Cards, Storage and Networking) knowledge and infrastructure tuning.
• Experience in the Capital Markets business and processes.
• Product and development knowledge in one or more Electronic Trading asset classes in Equities, Fixed Income, and FX.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

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