Lead Software Engineer - Java Fullstack

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:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field/relevant experience in software development.
• At least 5+ years relevant experience in Software Engineering.
• Deep understanding of Object-Oriented Design Principles and Patterns. Java 11 and above.
• Experience in microservices (REST/GraphQL) and event-driven architecture.
• Experience in Java/J2EE Web Application Development, Spring (Core, MVC, AOP, Batch, spring boot), Web Services (REST, SOAP etc.), JMS, Messaging, Kafka (streaming technologies), Cloud Technologies (AWS/PCF/Azure), Relational Database (Oracle, PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB) database.
• Experience/knowledge with code management and continuous integration techniques and tools such as Gradle, GitHub, Jenkins, NPM.
• Experience in modern application development practices such as CI/CD, Test Driven Development (TDD), Automation testing (BDD, Cucumber etc.) and DevOps.
• Experience/knowledge in monitoring and gathering metrics (Splunk, CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Elastic search, Grafana etc.)
• Experience with one cloud native technologies is plus like Azure - Azure Devops, Azure Webapp, Azure AD, AWS - EC2, Open Shift, Kubernetes
• Experience designing and building front-end Single-Page Applications (SPAs) in one or more front-end framework (HTML5, AngularJS, ReactJS) is a plus
• Experience / Knowledge in MongoDB, SQL, and query performance tuning.

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work in Agile/Product model.
• Can lead the team and operate independently.
• Basic understanding of core banking and working experience in banking domain.
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and produces architecture and design artifacts.
• Develop standards/practices that will increase adoption of agile, DevOps, and cloud-native approaches.
• Work on modernization strategy by identifying the need for API and build microservices.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Performing code reviews, guiding junior developers, refining technical requirements, making architectural decisions and coordinating efforts across a small team of developers/QA engineers to have deployable code ready.
• Demonstrating accountability and contributing to team success and positive team dynamics.

Posting End Date:
30 Nov 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.
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