Lead Software Engineer
Wells Fargo1 day ago
Charlotte, NC, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, debugging, documentation, and production support of scalable enterprise applications and services.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across full-stack development, containerization, DevOps, application modernization, and production implementation.
- Develop APIs, microservices, integrations, distributed applications, and backend services using technologies including Java, Python, PySpark, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Modernize and migrate legacy or on-premises applications to OpenShift, Kubernetes, cloud, and container platforms.
- Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, deployment, and release processes.
- Troubleshoot complex application, container, deployment, performance, and production issues and support post-production stabilization.
- Implement logging, monitoring, observability, security, compliance, resiliency, scalability, and production-support capabilities.
- Lead code and design reviews, establish technical standards and development best practices, and mentor less experienced engineers.
- Collaborate with business, architecture, infrastructure, security, QA, operations, and other stakeholders through development, UAT, production readiness, and deployment.
- Lead projects, act as an escalation point, represent the product technically in cross-team planning, and drive solutions from requirements through production deployment.
- Create test data, conduct interface and unit testing, perform validation and data-quality checks, and participate in performance tuning.
- Research and resolve process and application problems, recommend improvements, and support risk-management and compliance initiatives.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience with Java/Spring Boot, Python, or comparable enterprise development technologies.
- Strong experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized application deployment.
- Hands-on experience designing and developing REST APIs, microservices, and distributed applications.
- Strong experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab, Harness, or equivalent.
- At least 4 years of experience with infrastructure automation tools and CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, application configuration, certificates, secrets, container troubleshooting, and the complete SDLC.
- Experience with databases, application integration patterns, automated build/test/deployment pipelines, observability, and production support.
- Ability to independently drive technical solutions from requirements through production deployment.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, stakeholder-management, and interpersonal skills.
- Preferred exposure to e-Communication Surveillance/Compliance functions, cloud platforms, API gateways, enterprise integration platforms, cloud-native architecture, and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
- Preferred experience migrating legacy or on-premises applications to OpenShift or cloud/container platforms.
- Preferred working knowledge of APM and monitoring tools such as Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, or ITRS.
- A BS/BA degree or higher in information technology is listed as a desired qualification.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model is allowable, but telecommuting is not an option.
- Relocation assistance is not available.
- The position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
- Posting end date is 4 Nov 2026, though the posting may close earlier due to applicant volume.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHarnessJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPrometheusPuppetPythonSplunkSpring BootSQLTerraform
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.