Lead Software Engineer
Wells FargoResponsibilities
- Lead complex and companywide technology initiatives with broad organizational impact.
- Design, code, test, debug, document, and review complex large-scale technology solutions.
- Develop engineering standards and companywide best practices for technology solutions.
- Lead projects and teams, mentor peers, and drive new technology initiatives.
- Collaborate with technical experts, senior technology teams, external industry groups, developers, operations teams, and global stakeholders.
- Build and deploy containerized applications and support observability, monitoring, release management, and automation.
- Use GitHub Actions and version control systems to manage code and deployments.
- Support risk, compliance, governance, monitoring, escalation, and remediation requirements.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience or equivalent experience, training, military experience, or education.
- At least 5 years of J2EE development experience.
- At least 5 years of microservices experience with REST APIs.
- At least 5 years of experience delivering complex enterprise-wide information technology solutions.
- Experience with distributed streaming and event-driven architectures, including Kafka or similar real-time data processing frameworks.
- Experience with cloud and container technologies such as AKS, Azure, OCP, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Elastic, Kibana, Grafana, AppDynamics, Kafka, 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 GenAI technologies, AI-assisted development tools, and agentic AI solutions.
- Knowledge of MongoDB and SQL/NoSQL database technologies.
- Experience with Agile Scrum and strong verbal, written, interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in science or technology is desired.
Benefits
- The position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or visa transfer.
- Relocation assistance is not available.
- The role requires onsite work at the listed location.
- Posting end date is September 9, 2026, though the posting may close early due to applicant volume.
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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.