Lead Software Engineer

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
• 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 with Business and technical stake holders within and outside our division to implement modernized and sustainable technology roadmaps.
• Analyze business requirements, Architect and implement the software solutions.
• Actively contribute to building next generation solutions for Commercial Banking Services, Digital & Payment channels, enhancing the service levels of current solutions.
• Strong Software engineering skills, thorough understanding of software development lifecycle and methodologies.
• Must have good understanding of current and future trends and practices in Technology.
• Designs, codes, tests, debug and document software according to Wells Fargo Standards, policies, procedures, security and compliance requirements.
• Resolves Application issues with software solutions and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements.
• Proactively manage risk through implementation of right controls and escalate where required.
• Responsible for scrum/Agile Excellence.
• Work with Engineering manager, product owner and Team to ensure that the product is delivered with quality, on time and within budget.
• Work with internal IT Teams to coordinate project interlocks and deployments.
• Strong Verbal and written communication skills should be able to work in global development environment.
• Self- starter, proactive, good team player should possess exceptional commitment towards success of the team, and should have excellent crisis management skills.

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:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in full stack Software Enterprise Application Architecting/design and development.
• Experience in designing/developing Banking applications is desirable.
• Expertise in designing and developing enterprise applications using Technology stack like Java8 and above, web services, Cloud native design/technology, SOAP/REST, Spring Boot, ReactJS/Angular JS, Java Scripts/CSS/HTML5/JQuery, Microservices Architecture Patterns, Hibernate, Databases(RDBMS/NOSQL), Event Driven Architecture - Kafka and Devops tools
• Experience in transforming Monolith/legacy applications to Microservice Architecture.
• Very good knowledge/Experience in designing and developing Scalable, Secure, resilient, Cloud Ready Application using "12 factor principles" to ensure that the application runs on cloud environments (AWS, PCF, Docker, kubernetes).
• Good working knowledge and experience in continuous integration frameworks like Jenkins.
• Good working knowledge and experience in testing, Automation, Selenium, BDD.

Job Expectations:

• Container Technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, PKS
• Good to have - Certifications on Azure, GCP, PCF.
• Experience working on NOSQL, MongoDB and any one relational DB such as SQL Server.

Posting End Date:
29 Jun 2025
*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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