Wells Fargo Principal Engineer - Fixed Income Front Office Electronic Trading 

United States, New York, New York 

149647344

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking A highly skilled Principal Engineer specializing in Electronic Trading to join our dynamic team. As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining electronic trading systems, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability. You will work closely with cross-functional teams including Product owners, traders, quants, and developers to ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our electronic trading platform. Additionally, you will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.

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
• Design, develop, and maintain electronic trading systems to meet low-latency, high-throughput requirements for key eTrading components including order management, Market Data Aggregators, Executions, Offering, RFQs and FrontOffice Algo/Pricing systems.
• Collaborate with Users, quants, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Conduct performance analysis and optimization to ensure low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource utilization.
• Lead and participate in code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards, best practices, and architectural guidelines.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and operations teams to deploy and maintain trading systems in production environments, ensuring stability, resilience, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of electronic trading systems.
• Participate in incident response and resolution, providing timely and effective support to address production issues.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years Extensive experience (14+ years) in software development, with a focus on electronic trading systems and financial markets.
• 5+ years experience programming languages such as C++, Java, or Python, with a strong emphasis on low-latency, high-performance computing.
• 5+ years experience electronic trading protocols, order types, market data feeds, and exchange connectivity.
• 5+ years experience with networking protocols, multicast, and TCP/IP.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of delivering robust and scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• Leadership experience, including the ability to mentor junior engineers, drive technical initiatives, and influence decision-making.

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
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams

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

300 South Brevard - Charlotte, NC 28202

Pay Range

$144,400.00 - $300,000.00

7 Apr 2024