Home Based Algorithmic Trading Software Developer Jobs in Edison, NJ

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer in technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT). The team specializes in Electronic Trading. This position is responsible for providing technical leadership in the design, development, and support of highperformance electronic trading platforms. The role requires close collaboration with product partners, traders, quants, technology teams, and platform engineers to ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, and compliant with enterprise risk standards.

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In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives on selected domains

• Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk

• Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost

• Lead, design, develop, test and implement applications and system components, tools and utilities, models, simulation, and analytics to manage complex business functions using sophisticated technologies

• Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature

• Lead team to ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives

• Mentor less experienced software engineers

• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers

• Lead Partner team to achieve objectives with production support and platform engineering teams effectively

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education

• 5+ years of experience supporting capital markets businesses and processes, including Fixed Income electronic trading, algorithmic trading, analytics, and trade lifecycle

• 5+ years of experience architecting, designing, developing, and testing highperformance ECN/Exchange gateways, RFQ, pricing, and AMM components integrated with endtoend electronic trading platforms

• 5+ years of experience handling and troubleshooting highspeed market data, order routing, RFQ/RFS, quotations, and trading flows across multiple venues and brokerdealers

• 5+ years of experience working directly with traders, business partners, technology teams, and exchanges to diagnose and resolve production issues related to trading flows, latency, and performance

• 5+ years of experience establishing testing methodologies and resolving escalated issues during functional, integration, and performance testing

• 5+ years of experience with highperformance programming in Java and/or Python and/or C++

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with FIX protocol implementations

• Advanced understanding of Fixed Income electronic trading flows, venue interaction, and position/risk management

• Strong working knowledge of networking, multithreading, synchronization, data structures, algorithms, and memory management

• Basic understanding of SEC, FINRA, and other applicable regulatory requirements

• Domain expertise in Fixed Income (Rates, Spread) and/or FX with handson experience developing electronic trading platforms or core components

• Experience supporting lowlatency, highthroughput transactional systems

• Experience using Large Language Model (LLM)-based tools within enterprise development environments for productivity, diagnostics, or automation use cases

• Familiarity with agentic patterns and Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based integrations for standardized, secure LLM interactions is a plus

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Posting Location:

• 150 E 42nd St., New York, New York 10017

• 194 Wood Ave S, Iselin, NJ 08830

• 300 S Brevard St., Charlotte, NC 28202

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. 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.

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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