Lead .NET Full Stack Software Engineer

About the vision:

Wells Fargo's Wealth & Investment Management (WIM) is making a significant multi-year investment in its e-Brokerage platform to provide an even more compelling and competitive offering to customers. This investment will add important new capabilities and features both for self-directed and automated investing and provide new fully native mobile experiences. To support these customer-centric enhancements and to ensure the platform scales for future success, we are embarking on a technology modernization effort to improve time to market and allow us to take full advantage of all the public cloud capabilities. The key to our success will be hiring best-in-class technology professionals into a number of newly created roles, to supplement our existing team with targeted top talent to drive our transformation. We are looking for people with experience modernizing complex, mission critical applications at scale, while the platform continues to support ongoing business growth.

About our team:

The WIMT Digital team manages, develops, and supports customer facing brokerage systems. It has approximately 170 engineers globally between the US and India. Our main development centers in the US are in New York, Charlotte (NC) and St. Louis (MO). You should expect to spend time in the office on a flexible schedule collaborating with your team. Our engineers are a mixture of full stack, front end and back-end service experts, who take advantage of the firm’s commitment to ongoing professional development through a wide range of resources. We have a separate first line support team that allows engineers to focus on their objectives. Our partnership with our business and co-ownership of work through the Agile product operating model means that there is plenty of opportunities for you to work directly with our business partners and further your understanding of the business.

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a .NET Full Stack Lead Software Engineer within the Wealth and Investment Management Technology (WIMT) team for the Digital and Advice and Planning Team. This team focuses on providing functionality to our Digital and Advice Planning Product owners by building out highly scalable enterprise products. The selected candidate will be experienced in application development and maintenance. Candidate will strive to provide creative or innovative, yet practical solutions to the organization.

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
• 5+ years of hands-on .NET development with an emphasis on backend development
• 4+ years of experience with cloud technologies including AWS

Desired Qualifications:

• 2+ years of front-end web development such as Angular or React
• 2+ years of Financial Services industry experience
• 5+ years of experience managing stakeholders up to senior level executives
• Experience implementing AI tools into daily workflows
• Experience supporting vendor products and out of the box enhancements

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work onsite at one of the posted locations
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

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.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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.

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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.