Hybrid Lead Java Software Engineer – Equity Derivatives Technology

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About the role

  • Lead Java Software Engineer at Wells Fargo leading modernization of risk and pricing platform. Collaborate with teams to deliver high-impact technology initiatives and enhance trading workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and influence strategic technology initiatives across the Equity Derivatives Risk domain, partnering with front-office, quantitative, and platform stakeholders to deliver high-impact outcomes.
  • Architect, design, and build scalable, low-latency applications and microservices supporting real-time pricing, risk, analytics, and simulations for complex derivative products.
  • Own and evolve core risk and pricing frameworks, ensuring performance, resiliency, and extensibility across multiple trading desks and products.
  • Champion engineering excellence, establishing and driving best practices around system design, clean code, testing, observability, and operational resilience.
  • Drive automation in testing, documentation, and deployment to improve reliability, scalability, and speed to market.
  • Collaborate closely with production support and platform engineering teams to ensure smooth day-to-day operations, rapid incident resolution, and continuous improvement.
  • Ensure compliance with enterprise risk management, security, and regulatory requirements, particularly for front-office and risk-critical systems.
  • Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
  • 5+ years of hands-on Core Java development, with deep expertise in memory management, garbage collection tuning, multithreading, concurrency models, native I/O, and JNI
  • 3+ years designing and building distributed systems, with experience delivering low-latency, high-throughput, highly available, and fault-tolerant architectures using event-driven and microservices patterns
  • 2+ years of experience with in-memory data grids (e.g., Oracle Coherence, Apache Ignite, GemFire)
  • 2+ years working with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Cassandra, including schema design and query optimization
  • 1+ years of solid experience in modern AI development tooling, including AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) and contemporary IDEs

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

Job title

Lead Java Software Engineer – Equity Derivatives Technology

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$191,000 - $305,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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