Lead Java Developer Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities (FICC)

At Wells Fargo, we believe that a meaningful career is much more than just a job. It's about finding all the elements that help you thrive, in one place—supported in life, not just work. This includes a competitive salary, a robust benefits package, and programs to support your work-life balance and well-being. You’ll be rewarded for investing in your community, celebrated for being your authentic self, and empowered to grow.

About This Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology. This candidate will support our Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities (FICC) and Derivatives businesses. In this role, you will design, develop, and enhance strategic trade management platform capabilities that support the full trade lifecycle across cash and derivative products. Working closely with traders, quantitative analysts, product owners, and technology teams, you will help modernize critical Capital Markets applications through cloud-native architecture, microservices, and AI-enabled development practices. This position offers the opportunity to work on highly scalable, high-performance trading systems while contributing to the transformation of Wells Fargo's next-generation trade processing and risk management platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex technology initiatives, including those that are companywide with broad impact.
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large-scale technology solutions.
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs.
• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors.
• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions, requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology teams to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives.
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology teams, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals.
• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• 4+ years in FICC Trade Life Cycle: Deep domain knowledge of Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities, including trade capture, valuation models, and lifecycle event management.
• 4+ years High-Performance Stack: Proven mastery of Java (concurrency, JVM tuning) and Python (FastAPI, data science libraries).
• 4+ years Distributed Systems: Extensive experience with gRPC, Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd), and high-performance messaging protocols.

Qualifications

• Platform Pedigree: Prior experience building or significantly contributing to industry-leading platforms.
• Complex Derivatives Knowledge: Understanding of pricing and risk for complex derivatives (Swaps, Options, Exotics) and how they translate into trade event models.
• Agentic Development: Experience implementing GitHub CoPilot or similar AI-assisted engineering tools at scale to drive "Agentic Development" workflows.
• Modern UI Patterns: Experience with Micro Front Ends to decouple the trader UI and allow for independent module deployment.
• Cloud Native: Familiarity with deploying mission-critical financial systems on hybrid cloud environments (Azure/GCP/AWS) with a focus on data residency and sovereignty.
• Academic Background: Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Financial Engineering.

Job Expectations

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.

Posting Locations: Charlotte, North Carolina; Iselin, New Jersey; Boston, Massachusetts.

Pay

$119,000.00 - $224,000.00. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, including:

• 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