Lead Software Engineer
Wells FargoResponsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for the design, development, deployment, and support of cloud-native IAM applications.
- Lead architecture and design decisions across frontend, backend, API, event-driven, and data platforms.
- Establish technical standards, coding practices, design patterns, and engineering guardrails.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers.
- Design and develop responsive web applications using React and modern JavaScript frameworks.
- Develop scalable backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Python, REST APIs, and microservice architectures.
- Implement event-driven integrations using Kafka and enterprise messaging patterns.
- Build and optimize MongoDB data models, queries, and persistence layers.
- Integrate with enterprise IAM platforms, identity providers, and security services.
- Lead Agile delivery activities including sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, release planning, and production deployments.
- Drive CI/CD automation and DevSecOps practices using GitHub, Jenkins, OpenShift, SonarQube, Fortify, and Black Duck.
- Ensure adherence to SDLC, change management, security, resiliency, audit, and compliance requirements.
- Drive reliability, observability, monitoring, production support readiness, performance optimization, disaster recovery, and scalability improvements.
- Lead root cause analysis and resolution of complex production issues.
- Champion automation across testing, deployment, operational support, and engineering workflows.
- Design and develop AI-enabled user experiences and intelligent workflows, including support for MCP-based integrations, intelligent agents, and AI-powered automation.
- Use and validate AI-assisted development tools while accounting for model limitations, security risks, operational considerations, and responsible-use requirements.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- At least 5 years leading complex software engineering initiatives or Agile teams.
- At least 5 years of Java and Spring Boot development experience.
- At least 5 years building RESTful APIs and microservices.
- At least 3 years of React development experience.
- At least 3 years of MongoDB or equivalent NoSQL database experience.
- Experience implementing event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging platforms.
- Experience deploying applications to OpenShift, Kubernetes, or cloud-native platforms.
- Experience with GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, and automated testing frameworks.
- Strong understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, and IAM concepts.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
- Preferred experience with IAM, IGA, access management, certification, entitlement, or compliance solutions.
- Preferred experience with AI-enabled applications, generative AI platforms, MCP architectures, intelligent automation, and API gateways such as Apigee.
- Preferred experience in highly regulated financial services environments and leading engineering transformation initiatives or T-shaped engineering teams.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule.
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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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.