Lead Java Software Engineer- Capital Markets at Wells Fargo
New York, New York, USA -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

08 Nov, 25

Salary

305000.0

Posted On

09 Aug, 25

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Settlement, Risk, Design Patterns, Platform Development, Communication Skills, Testing, Finra, Components, Training, Low Latency, Trading Desk, Data Structures, Technological Solutions, Oracle Coherence, Distributed Systems, Equity Swaps, Client Server Technologies

Industry

Computer Software/Engineering

Description

PAY RANGE

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.
$191,000.00 - $305,000.00

APPLICANTS WITH DISABILITIES

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo .

WELLS FARGO RECRUITMENT AND HIRING REQUIREMENTS:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process

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, educatio

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
Responsibilities

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Capital Markets Java Software Engineer to join our Prime Brokerage/Equity Finance & Futures (EF&F) Technology group. As a Feature team member, you will have the opportunity to build framework that will address stringent scalable, resilient, self-healing, high throughput and latency sensitive solutions for Clearing and Market Maker functions. The candidate will be actively engaged in architecture, design and development of the solution by writing fully automated functional, unit, and stress tests. You will be using on-prem container technology with potential burst to public cloud.

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
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