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About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is one of the largest banks in the United States, providing banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services nationwide. Industry: Banking & Financial Services
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Wells Fargo’s Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology team is seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Equity Cash Technology organization, where you will serve as a hands-on technical authority for complex electronic trading systems in Equities Electronic Trading platforms. This role involves designing, developing, and supporting low-latency trading applications such as pricing, RFQ, IOI, market making, order routing, and market data components while ensuring compliance with enterprise risk standards. You will work closely with product managers, traders, quants, platform engineering teams, and vendors to mentor engineers through technical leadership and influence. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in electronic trading within capital markets, expertise in Java for performance-critical systems, and knowledge of FIX protocol, ECN connectivity, market data feeds, and exchange/broker integrations. Additionally, familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic AI workflows is highly desirable as you will define enterprise-standard AI-assisted engineering practices and ensure secure, explainable, auditable AI usage in alignment with Wells Fargo’s governance standards.
Lead the design, evolution, and modernization of complex electronic trading systems for Equity Cash Trading.
Define architecture, performance standards, and design patterns for cross-team initiatives in low-latency trading applications.
Ensure platforms are resilient, observable, and compliant with enterprise risk standards while partnering closely with product managers and traders.
Establish AI-assisted engineering practices including prompt-driven development, automated testing, diagnostics, and developer productivity tooling.
Architect controlled LLM integrations such as MCP-based services for development, observability, and automation in alignment with Wells Fargo governance standards.
Mentor engineers through technical leadership and influence to enhance the team's capabilities and efficiency.
What we're looking for
7+ years of electronic trading experience in capital markets, focusing on Equity Cash platforms
Deep hands-on expertise in designing and building high-performance, low-latency trading systems
Extensive experience with Java in performance-critical systems, plus exposure to Python and C++
Expertise in FIX protocol, ECN connectivity, market data feeds, and exchange/broker integrations
Strong background in real-time system design, including JVM tuning, GC optimization, threading models
Experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with emphasis on governance and controlled usage
Advanced knowledge of electronic market making, algo trading, SOR/EMS platforms, and internalization models