Senior Software Engineer
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
SQL
Lead Engineer, Spread Electronic/Algo Trading Platform
Wells Fargo
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New Jersey, New York, North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $159,000 - $305,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDockerJavaKubernetesLinuxPythonTCP/IP
About the role
- Design, develop, and maintain electronic trading systems ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability
- Work closely with cross-functional teams including Product owners, traders, quants, and developers
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers
- Drive the design and evolution of the Spread Electronic Trading/Algo Trading platform
- Lead development of pricing and quoting frameworks for Credit, Munis, and Structured Products
- Architect and optimize the ET platform balancing low-latency components with scalable services
- Oversee ECN and exchange integration, market data handling, smart order routing, and efficient execution across venues
- Embed hedging logic and risk management controls into the platform, delivering automated guardrails and real-time exposure monitoring
- Conduct performance analysis and optimization to ensure low latency and high throughput
- Lead and participate in code reviews and enforce coding standards and architectural guidelines
- Collaborate with infrastructure and operations teams to deploy and maintain trading systems in production
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives and participate in incident response and resolution
Requirements
- 5+ 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
- 14+ years in software development, with a focus on electronic trading systems and financial markets (listed as 'Extensive experience (14+ years)')
- 5+ years experience programming languages such as C++, Java, or Python, with a strong emphasis on low-latency, high-performance computing in Linux environment
- 4+ years of deep understanding of data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming
- 4+ years experience electronic trading protocols, order types, market data feeds, and exchange connectivity
- 4+ years experience with networking protocols, multicast, and TCP/IP
- 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
- Master’s degree in computer science/engineering (desired)
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (desired)
- Leadership experience, including the ability to mentor junior engineers (desired)
- Position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship (job expectation)
- Relocation assistance is not available for this position (job expectation)
Benefits
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
- Hybrid work schedule (position offers a hybrid work schedule)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
C++JavaPythonlow-latency computinghigh-performance computingdata structuresalgorithmsobject-oriented programmingelectronic trading protocolsnetworking protocols
Soft skills
communication skillsinterpersonal skillsleadershipmentorshipcollaboration
Certifications
Master’s degree in computer scienceMaster’s degree in engineering
