About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer
In this role, you will:
- Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
- Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
- Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
- Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
- Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
- Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
- Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java ecosystem (Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, concurrency, performance tuning) and Python
- 1- 2 years of experience delivering GenAI systems, including hands-on work with:
- Applications powered by LLMs
- RAG architectures
- Embeddings and vector databases
- Agent frameworks and orchestration
- Experience integrating AI services into enterprise backend platforms
- Mentor team members to help them deliver the work assigned to them and train them to uplift the capability.
- Conduct code reviews to ensure quality, performance, and best practices
- Ensure clear communication and timely resolution of client-impacting issues efficiently
- Familiarity with Agile/scrum methodologies and tools like Jira, etc.
- Deployment experience on OpenShift, Harness, Kubernetes-based platform will be an added advantage.
Job Expectations:
- Deployment of GenAI services embedded into core Java-based banking platforms
- Production-grade GenAI applications integrated into Java-based enterprise platforms
- RAG pipelines, agent orchestration layers, and AI service abstractions callable from core Java systems
- Secure, compliant Open Banking APIs powering high-volume enterprise clients
- Work with observability, resilience, and governance frameworks for AI-enabled services
- Design and implement high-performance distributed systems primarily in Java (Spring Boot, microservices architecture), ReactJS and MicroFrontends
- Demonstrate technical leadership & Engineering Practices, Lead and mentor a team of developers
- Work with business/product teams to translate requirements
Posting End Date:
15 Jun 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. 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.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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