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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
Wells Fargo currently has
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Listed pay typically runs
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Principal Engineer Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities (FICC) joins the Commercial Corporate & Investment Bank Technology organization to architect and lead the next-generation Strategic Trade Management platform. This role focuses on modernizing core trade lifecycle capabilities for Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities products by building high-performance systems that integrate low-latency execution with complex derivative modeling and real-time valuations. The engineer will design and deliver production-grade microservices using Java, gRPC, Python, FastAPI, service mesh, and Micro Front-End patterns while integrating agentic development practices via GitHub Copilot and custom LLM agents. Key responsibilities include decommissioning legacy monolithic systems, implementing cloud-native architectures, and ensuring data consistency for trade event modeling. The role requires deep expertise in the FICC trade lifecycle, including pricing and risk for swaps, options, and exotics within a high-performance distributed systems environment.
Architect and build next-generation trade management platform components for Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities.
Design and deliver production-grade microservices using Java, gRPC, Python, and reactive architectures.
Integrate agentic development practices and LLM agents to accelerate software delivery velocity.
Engineer sub-millisecond trade processing paths while ensuring high throughput, resilience, and data consistency.
Lead the decommissioning of legacy monolithic systems and migration to cloud-native infrastructure.
Translate complex business requirements from trading, quant, and risk teams into scalable technical solutions.
Mentor senior engineers and establish best practices for secure, observable, and testable code.
Advise leadership on technology strategy including network, security, and database infrastructure.
What we're looking for
7+ years of engineering experience or equivalent through work, training, military service, or education.
At least 4 years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years in a principal or lead architect capacity within a global capital markets environment.
4+ years of experience in FICC trade lifecycle including trade capture, valuation models, and lifecycle event management.
4+ years of mastery in high-performance stacks using Java (concurrency, JVM tuning) and Python (FastAPI, data science libraries).
4+ years of experience with distributed systems including gRPC, Service Mesh, and high-performance messaging protocols.
Experience building industry-leading platforms (preferred).
Understanding of pricing and risk for complex derivatives such as swaps, options, and exotics (preferred).
Experience with GitHub Copilot or similar AI tools, Micro Front Ends, and hybrid cloud environments (preferred).
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