Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer specializing in Electronic Trading to design, develop, and maintain electronic trading systems, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability. The role involves driving the design and evolution of the Spread Electronic Trading/Algo Trading platform, leading development of pricing and quoting frameworks, architecting and optimizing the ET platform, overseeing ECN and exchange integration, and embedding hedging logic and risk management controls.
Requirements
- 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
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
Responsibilities
- 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/Hedging systems.
- Drive the design and evolution of the Spread Electronic Trading/Algo Trading platform, ensuring it delivers best-in-class performance and resiliency.
- Lead development of pricing and quoting frameworks that enable traders and quants to rapidly model and deploy execution logic across Credit, Munis, and Structured Products.
- Architect and optimize the ET platform, balancing low-latency components with scalable services to support strategy deployment, monitoring, and analytics.
- Oversee ECN and exchange integration, ensuring robust market data handling, smart order routing, and efficient execution across venues.
- Embed hedging logic and risk management controls directly into the platform, delivering automated guardrails, real-time exposure monitoring, and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Conduct performance analysis and optimization to ensure low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource utilization.
Other
- 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
- Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership
