Lead Specialty Software Engineer – Fixed Income Spread Technology
Company: Wells Fargo
Location: New York, NY 10022
Salary: $159,000 - $305,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-06-01
About this role
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer within Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Capital Markets, Fixed Income Spread Technology. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building and evolving low-latency, high-throughput platforms that power pricing, risk, P&L, and electronic trading workflows across Credit, Municipal, and Structured Products desks.
## Team Overview:
The Fixed Income Spread Technology team builds and owns low-latency pricing, risk, and P&L systems as well as the front-end eTrading platform for Spread products including Credit, Municipal, and Structured Products. The team works directly with Front Office traders, Middle Office, and Product partners to deliver a live trading and analytics platform supporting intraday trading and end-of-day processing.
## In this role, you will:
- Lead design and delivery of Java/Spring Boot based microservices supporting real-time pricing, risk, P&L, and trade lifecycle workflows.
- Build and operate low-latency, highly resilient services using REST and event-driven architectures.
- Own code quality, testing strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and production readiness for supported platforms.
- Drive DevOps practices across Kubernetes/OpenShift, Docker, Jenkins/uDeploy, Gradle, and Autosys.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production and performance issues in a real-time trading environment.
- Partner closely with Front Office traders, Middle Office, Product, and Platform teams.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers.
## Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, education, or military service
- 5+ years of strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot
- 5+ year of strong DevOps experience with CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Gradle, Jenkins and/or uDeploy
- 5+ year of strong experience with Autosys or similar enterprise...