Principal Engineer
Wells Fargo3 days ago
Responsibilities
- Advise leadership and influence technical strategy across applications, infrastructure, security, databases, operating systems, and web technologies.
- Lead resolution of complex enterprise-wide technical challenges and translate business strategy into practical solutions.
- Build prototypes, working software, reference implementations, reusable engineering patterns, and technical guardrails.
- Apply AI and automation to reduce engineering toil, improve quality, accelerate delivery, and modernize software development and operations.
- Establish responsible AI engineering practices covering security, testing, evaluation, observability, data protection, and human oversight.
- Simplify complex and legacy technology environments through architecture, automation, APIs, and incremental modernization.
- Partner across Engineering, Product, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Risk, and business teams.
- Coach engineers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, technical reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Help teams move successful prototypes into secure, reliable, production-quality solutions.
- Measure outcomes including software quality, delivery speed, operational toil, architectural simplicity, and engineering capability.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- Deep hands-on software engineering experience designing and building complex enterprise applications and distributed systems.
- Strong fundamentals in software design, APIs, cloud technologies, data and integration patterns, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, reliability, and production operations.
- Experience using generative AI and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software development, testing, modernization, documentation, operations, and support.
- Experience experimenting with large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, tool use, orchestration, and evaluation.
- Ability to simplify legacy technology, create reusable engineering patterns and guardrails, and influence technical direction across teams.
- Strong technical judgment, communication, collaboration, coaching, and ability to work through ambiguous problems.
- Intellectual curiosity and ability to distinguish meaningful technology shifts from hype.
Benefits
- The role is located at Brevard Street in Charlotte, North Carolina, or Las Colinas in Irving, Texas.
- The posting is scheduled to close on November 22, 2026, but may close earlier due to applicant volume.
- Wells Fargo provides equal employment opportunity and disability accommodations during the recruitment process.
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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.