Principal Engineer Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities (FICC)
Wells FargoBase Salary
$159k - $254k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build strategic trade management platform components for FICC and derivatives businesses.
- Design, code, and deliver production-grade microservices using Java, gRPC, Python/FastAPI, service mesh, reactive architectures, and micro-frontend patterns.
- Engineer sub-millisecond trade processing for rates, credit, FX, and commodities while meeting throughput, resilience, data consistency, and auditability requirements.
- Lead the decommissioning of legacy monolithic systems and migration to a cloud-native system of record with trade-event modeling, exception handling, and real-time valuation capabilities.
- Develop and influence enterprise technical strategy, architecture standards, architecture review boards, and capital markets platform direction.
- Partner with Trading, Quant, Risk, Operations, and Compliance teams to translate business needs into scalable technology solutions.
- Use GitHub Copilot and custom LLM agents to support agentic development practices and delivery velocity.
- Mentor senior engineers and technologists and establish practices for secure, observable, and testable code.
- Advise technology leadership on complex applications, network, information security, database, operating system, and web technology challenges.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in a principal or lead architect capacity within a global capital markets environment.
- 4+ years of FICC trade lifecycle experience covering fixed income, currencies, commodities, trade capture, valuation models, and lifecycle event management.
- 4+ years of experience with Java, including concurrency and JVM tuning, and Python, including FastAPI and data science libraries.
- 4+ years of distributed systems experience with gRPC, service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd, and high-performance messaging protocols.
- Experience building or significantly contributing to industry-leading platforms is preferred.
- Knowledge of pricing and risk for complex derivatives such as swaps, options, and exotics is preferred.
- Experience implementing GitHub Copilot or similar AI-assisted engineering tools at scale is preferred.
- Experience with micro-frontends for independently deployable trader UI modules is preferred.
- Familiarity with deploying mission-critical financial systems on hybrid cloud environments and addressing data residency and sovereignty is preferred.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or financial engineering is preferred.
- Ability to work on-site at the posted Charlotte, North Carolina location is required.
Benefits
- Health benefits, 401(k) plan, paid time off, disability benefits, life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance.
- Parental leave, critical caregiving leave, commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement, dependent-child scholarships, adoption reimbursement, and discounts and savings.
- The position is on-site in Charlotte, NC, and relocation assistance is not available.
- The posting closes September 26, 2026, although it may be removed earlier due to applicant volume.
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company with approximately $1.9 trillion in assets. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through more than 7,300 locations, 12,000 ATMs, the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in over 40 countries and territories to support customers who conduct business in the global economy. With approximately 250,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 41 on Fortune’s 2022 rankings of America’s largest corporations. News, insights and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also available at Wells Fargo Stories. Relevant military experience is considered for veterans and transitioning service men and women. 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.© 2016 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. All rights reserved. Member FDIC.