Lead Software Engineer - Electronic Trading (Vice President)

Wells Fargo & Company; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a high-impact team at a leading financial institution in London as a Senior Developer and Architect. You will design and build an ultra-low-latency electronic trading platform, tackling complex engineering challenges in capital markets. This role offers the chance to shape critical infrastructure and work alongside top-tier engineering talent in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience of building large scale Java applications.
• Solid background in Linux commands and low latency system tuning.
• Knowledgeable in messaging platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex initiatives and ensure systems are monitored for efficiency.
• Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes.
• Mentor less experienced software engineers.

Skills

Java

Algorithms

Data Structures

Linux

Networking Protocols

Education

Specialty Software Engineering

Job description

About this role:

Join a high-impact team at Wells Fargo in London, where technology drives the future of trading. We’re looking for a Senior Developer and Architect to help design and build our next-generation ultra-low-latency electronic trading platform—the engine behind our global execution capabilities in Fixed Income, FX and Spread.

In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of solving some of the most complex engineering challenges in capital markets—optimizing for speed, throughput, and reliability in real-time market environments. You’ll own the architecture and development of high-performance systems.

This is more than just a development role, it’s a chance to shape the core infrastructure of a global trading business, work with top-tier engineering talent, and build systems that are both mission-critical and built to scale. If you’re passionate about low-latency design, high-performance computing, and writing code, we want to hear from you.

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

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Specialty Software Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Development experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience of building large scale Java applications is needed.
• In-depth knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Solid background in Linux commands, Linux system calls, Linux operating system features, and low latency system tuning is desired.
• Solid knowledge in threading, thread to thread communication, process management, data structure and thread synchronization, shared memory constructs, and finite state machine design and implementation.
• Working knowledge on networking protocols (TCP/IP, multicast) is a must.
• Knowledgeable in one or more leading vendor or open-source messaging platform.
• Ability to produce technology platforms of high capacity, high volume, high throughput and low latency.

Desired Qualifications:

• C++ development experience.
• Experience in building market data distribution systems.
• Working knowledge in building high capacity, high volume, low latency technology for Electronic Trading modules such as ALGO, Smart Order Router, and/or Order Management Systems.
• Server and desktop hardware knowledge.
• Infrastructure (Server, Network Cards, Storage and Networking) knowledge and infrastructure tuning.
• Experience in the Capital Markets business and processes.
• Product and development knowledge in one or more Electronic Trading asset classes in Equities, Fixed Income, and FX.

Posting End Date:

9 Jun 2025

*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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