Lead Software Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive new application development and enhancement in the Digital Technology and Innovation (DTI) group. DTI supports evolving digital platforms and enhances integration of the innovation pipeline into our customer-facing capabilities.

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

• Lead initiatives that apply AI to improve workflows and customer experience.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI into enterprise applications.

• 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

• 5 years of Spring experience

• 5 years of Core Java experience

• 4 years of RESTful or SOAP web services

• 4 years of software engineering experience in a distributed services architecture using Microservices or SOA

• 2 years of experience with Kafka MQ or other PubSub patterns tools

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to design develop and implement large scale/complex software applications

• Knowledge and understanding of design and development of modern web applications and mobile technologies

• Knowledge and understanding of test driven and behavior driven application development

• Familiarity with foundation models prompt engineering and orchestration using vector databases.

• Lead experimentation using platforms like Tachyon AI Studio and Copilot.

• 4 years of Agile experience

• 2 years of Mongo DB experience

• 1 year of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) AWS or Azure experience

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

• Telecommuting is not an option for this position

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Locations:

• 794 Davis St. San Leandro CA

• 1755 Grant St Concord CA

• 333 Market St. San Francisco CA

Pay range:

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements skills experience or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

For CA locations only: $143000.00 - $224000.00 USD Annual

Benefits:

• Information about Wells Fargos US employee benefits
• Information about Wells Fargos International employee benefits

Posting End Date:

17 Oct 2025

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements skills experience or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

Posting End Date:

*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 units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process visitDisability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.