Wells Fargo

Spread Electronic Trading/Algo Trading Platform Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $191,000 - $305,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDockerJavaKubernetesLinuxPythonTCP/IP

About the role

  • 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 FrontOfficeAlgo/Pricing/Hedging systems.
  • Collaborate with Traders, 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.
  • Experience working with global development teams
  • Implementing pricing, quoting, hedging, and risk logic across spread products.
  • Experience in working with quants and traders to integrate models into production-ready algos.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
  • 5+ years of experience in building algo platforms for spread products
  • 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 in Linux environment
  • 5+ years of deep understanding of data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming
  • 5+ years experience electronic trading protocols, order types, market data feeds, and exchange connectivity
  • 5+ years experience with networking protocols, multicast, and TCP/IP