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Wells Fargo Lead Speciality Software Engineer - eFX 
United Kingdom, England, City of London 
631152098

Yesterday

About this role:

development. TheElectronic Trading application suite is built on common foundational frameworks and is used to deliver sophisticated and complex front office trading solutions.

This individual will be a senior systems engineer and technical expert in the development of very highly sophisticated and complex trading applications for a major functional and/or product area within the FX businesses. They will analyze highly complex business requirements. Write functional documents and design technical specifications. Design and/or redesign existing complex computer platforms and applications.


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
  • Java experience
  • FX e-trading experience
  • Algorithmic/electronic-tradingdevelopment experience
  • Low Latency systems development or implementation experience
  • Hand on multicast messaging framework development experience
  • Multi-threading experience


Desired Qualifications:

  • Knowledge and understanding of all FX Products including Spot, Forwards, NDFs and Swaps for pricing construction and risk management
  • Strong knowledge of JDK 1.8+ programming paradigms
  • Strong knowledge of multi-core / multi-threading concepts and paradigms
  • Strong knowledge of UNIX/LINUX
  • Strong knowledge of core computer science design concepts, algorithms, and data structures
  • Background in e-trading(SOR/Algo/EMS/MarketData)and (electronic market making products)
  • Experience in low latency/real-time development and optimization
  • Working knowledge with market data / ECN connectivity / FIX protocol development
  • Low-latency JAVA experience (GC tuning, etc.)
  • Working knowledge of quantitative modeling
  • Working knowledge with tools required for regression test automation
  • Advanced experience in capital markets business and processes
  • Basic knowledge and understanding of SEC, FINRA and international regulations
  • Working knowledge on Agile best practices

16 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.