Lead Software Engineer
Wells FargoResponsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of reusable, scalable, and secure enterprise API platforms.
- Evaluate large-scale API architectures against business objectives, technology standards, integration patterns, and technical and non-technical constraints.
- Design, build, test, and document APIs, microservices, and platform capabilities.
- Drive adoption of REST, event-driven, and gateway-based API technologies and platform strategies.
- Lead API initiatives, mentor engineering teams, and promote a platform-first engineering culture.
- Define and implement API development, lifecycle management, governance, and platform engineering standards.
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, platform teams, external partners, developers, and operations teams to resolve integration challenges.
- Lead teams and partner with global stakeholders across multiple time zones while promoting accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- At least five years of software engineering experience or equivalent experience demonstrated through work, training, military experience, or education.
- At least five years of J2EE development experience.
- At least five years of microservices experience with REST APIs.
- At least five years of experience delivering complex enterprise-wide information technology solutions.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in science or technology.
- Preferred experience with workflow-driven architectures such as Kogito and business process automation technologies.
- Preferred experience with distributed streaming and event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar frameworks.
- Experience with cloud and container technologies such as AKS, Azure, OpenShift, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools including Elastic, Kibana, Grafana, AppDynamics, BigPanda, and Splunk.
- Experience with middleware messaging platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, release management, and automation tools.
- Experience with GitHub, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven, Git, and GitHub Actions.
- Experience with Generative AI technologies, AI-assisted development tools, and agentic AI solutions.
- Knowledge of MongoDB, SQL, and NoSQL database technologies.
- Strong verbal, written, interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Knowledge of Agile Scrum practices.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule available with the ability to work onsite at the listed Charlotte, North Carolina location.
- Relocation assistance is not available.
- The position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or visa transfer.
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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.