Principle Engineer - rates and cross asset electronic trading platforms

About the role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer in technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT). Wells Fargo Securities (WFS) is the Capital Markets and Investment Banking division of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Within Institutional Investor Services, Electronic Trading Technology delivers scalable, resilient, and low-latency platforms supporting cross-asset trading strategies. We are seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Electronic Trading organization, focused on Rates and cross-asset electronic trading platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, evolve, and modernize highly complex electronic trading systems.
• Lead cross-team initiatives by defining architecture, design patterns, and performance standards.
• Design, develop, and support low-latency trading applications-including pricing, RFQ, market making, order routing, and market-data components-while maintaining end-to-end ownership across the full SDLC and production support.
• Translate complex trading requirements into robust technical solutions, ensuring platforms are resilient, observable, and compliant with enterprise risk standards.
• Partner closely with product managers, traders, quants, platform engineering, and vendors, while mentoring engineers through technical leadership and influence.
• Define and govern enterprise-standard AI-assisted engineering practices, including prompt-driven development, automated testing, diagnostics, documentation, and developer-productivity tooling.
• Architect controlled LLM integrations such as MCP-based services for development, observability, and automation.
• Establish strong guardrails to ensure secure, explainable, auditable AI usage and partner closely with platform, security, risk, and compliance teams to evolve GenAI and agentic-AI capabilities in alignment with Wells Fargo governance standards.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 7+ years of electronic trading experience within capital markets, with deep exposure to Rates or Fixed Income e-trading platforms
• 7+ years of experience designing and building high-performance, low-latency trading systems, including pricing, RFQ/RFS, order management, market data, and execution workflows
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with Java in performance-critical systems (with exposure to Python and/or C++ as applicable)

Desired Qualifications

• Deep experience with FIX protocol, ECN connectivity, market data feeds, and exchange/broker integrations
• Proven ability to operate as an individual contributor technical lead, owning architecture and influencing multiple engineering teams
• Strong experience partnering directly with traders, product teams, and business stakeholders to resolve complex production and performance issues
• Expertise in low-latency and real-time system design, including JVM tuning, GC optimization, threading models, memory management, and performance profiling
• Strong understanding of electronic market making, algo trading, SOR/EMS platforms, and internalization models
• Familiarity with quantitative modeling concepts and analytics used in electronic trading
• Experience with regression and performance test automation frameworks
• Advanced knowledge of capital markets business processes and trade lifecycle
• Experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) in enterprise environments, with emphasis on governance, traceability, and controlled usage
• Familiarity with agentic AI workflow and Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based SDLC

Pay

$159,000.00 - $305,000.00

Schedule

This position offers a hybrid work schedule.

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