Principal Engineer - AI, Digital Payments & Technology Transformation
Wells Fargo24 hours ago
San Leandro, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$191k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead large-scale digital payments and money movement modernization initiatives.
- Establish target-state architectures that improve scalability, resiliency, performance, maintainability, and speed to market.
- Identify and deploy Generative AI, Agentic AI, intelligent automation, and AI-assisted engineering solutions.
- Champion modern engineering principles, platform reuse, domain-oriented design, and API-centric architectures.
- Drive practices that improve reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
- Partner with product, business, and technology leaders to solve critical business challenges.
- Lead strategic discovery efforts, prototypes, proofs of concept, and transformational initiatives.
- Mentor senior engineers, architects, and engineering leaders and foster innovation and continuous learning.
- Accelerate modernization, reduce technology complexity, improve engineering productivity, and advance reusable technology capabilities.
- Influence strategic technology direction across Consumer Payments and serve as a trusted technology advisor.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- At least 5 years leading enterprise-scale modernization or technology transformation initiatives.
- At least 4 years of experience with API and integration strategy.
- At least 2 years of experience with event-driven and asynchronous architectures.
- At least 2 years of experience with Generative AI, Agentic AI, intelligent automation, or AI-assisted software engineering.
- Experience deploying AI capabilities into production environments is desired.
- Experience with AI governance, controls, responsible AI, and AI-enabled modernization is desired.
- Strong executive communication, technical storytelling, senior-stakeholder influence, cross-functional leadership, coaching, and mentoring capabilities are desired.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule.
- Health benefits, 401(k) plan, paid time off, disability benefits, life insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, parental leave, and critical caregiving leave.
- Discounts and savings, commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement, scholarships for dependent children, and adoption reimbursement.
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About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a U.S.-based financial services firm providing consumer and commercial banking, mortgages, credit, and wealth/investment services to individuals, small businesses, and enterprises. It earns revenue from interest income and fees across retail banking, payments, lending, and capital markets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (WFC) and operates nationally with offices in multiple countries.