Lead Software Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a lead software developer to provide technical leadership across complex software initiatives, ensuring high‑quality design and delivery of scalable solutions aligned to business and enterprise objectives. You will be responsible for providing technical leadership across complex software initiatives, ensuring high‑quality design and delivery of scalable solutions aligned to business and enterprise objectives. This role serves as a hands‑on technical leader, standard bearer, and mentor, influencing engineering direction and execution across teams.

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
• Act as a technical leader in establishing, evolving, and enforcing engineering standards, architectural patterns, and best practices for software development
• Own solution design and implementation, including hands‑on coding, testing, debugging, and documentation for critical components, projects, and programs
• Review and evaluate complex software solutions to ensure alignment with strategic business goals, enterprise architecture, performance, security, and scalability requirements
• Influence engineering teams through technical direction, code reviews, and design guidance to ensure delivery quality and consistency
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle

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 experience building and managing enterprise‑scale infrastructure using automation
• 5+ years of advanced coding or scripting skills, with a focus on infrastructure automation

Desired Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience with programming SQL for database technologies such as Microsoft SQL, MySQL, Postgres
• 6+ years of strong development proficiency in PowerShell, Bash, Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS technologies
• In-depth knowledge of RESTful API design
• Familiarity with markup languages such as XML, JSON, YAML, and HTML
• Experience with testing tools such as Playwright, Pester, PyUnit
• Experience with IDE’s such as VS Code, IntelliJ, PyCharm, Visual Studio, etc.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Experience with orchestration such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• Experience with artifact repositories such as Artifactory
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and BigPanda
• Experience with logging tools such as Splunk
• Experience with performance testing tools such as LoadRunner
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift).
• Experience with Agile/scrum methodologies and tools like Jira, etc.

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• This position does offer Visa sponsorship

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

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 unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability 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.