Senior Software Engineer

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer
At Wells Fargo, we have one goal: to satisfy our customers' financial needs and help them achieve their dreams. We're looking for talented people who will put our customers at the center of everything we do. Join our diverse and inclusive team where you'll feel valued and inspired to contribute your unique skills and experience. This position is needed to support ongoing Development, Enhancements, Maintenance of initiatives for the Technology group. More specifically, the Senior Software Engineer will act from time-to-time as the technical lead.
In this role, you will:

• Lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within technical domain environments
• Contribute to large scale planning of strategies
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs associated with technology domain, including upgrades and deployments
• Review moderately complex technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of technologies and procedures
• Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet existing client needs or potential new clients needs while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, or compliance requirements
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve technical challenges and achieve goals
• Lead projects and act as an escalation point, provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Experience:

• 7+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• 6-7+ years of backend engineering, with at least 1-2 years integrating AI/LLMs into production.
• A Senior Java Engineer skilled in Spring Boot, microservices, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), Docker, CI/CD, distributed systems, JVM optimization, and scalable architecture design-capable of owning end-to-end development and delivering high-performance enterprise solutions.

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Java development experience
• 3+ years active participation in Agile methodology.
• Strong experience in using Git Hub/Jenkins, JIRA & SonarQube tools
• Experience in Cloud Applications.
• 3+ years of database and MS SQL experience
• Strong experience in design and development of framework and reusable components using different Java design patterns
• Experience with Application performance, monitoring and optimization using Blazemeter, JMeter, Splunk and AppDynamics
• Experience in creating, executing, and documenting compliance testing
• Experience in policy and procedures/control testing
• Banking domain experience is preferred
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Design and develop framework and reusable components using different Java design patterns.
• Contribute towards implementing CI/CD pipeline.
• Strong in programming skills and verifies java/selenium program logic by overseeing the preparation of test data, test scripts and debugging of programs for automation.
• Enforce consistency, comprehensive coverage, and efficiency across all assignments.
• Will learn the application and be and SME in the needs for applications assigned and will partner with the development team and key business stakeholders to understand the business needs, technical design, and current or targeted systems architecture.
• Provide input to the sizing and estimation process for future development and/or production support efforts.
• Assures quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area and oversees creation of or updates to and testing of the business continuation plan.
• Learn the Wells Fargo Standards and follow them.

• Core Java Engineering Skills
• Java 17+, Core Java, OOP, collections, concurrency, multithreading, JVM internals & performance tuning.
• Spring Boot / Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Security.
• RESTful APIs, distributed microservices architecture, integration patterns.
• Strong SQL and NoSQL experience; stored procedures, views, optimized queries.
• Strong backend engineering with Python, React.js
• Experience with JEE-based servers (JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic) and enterprise systems.

• Cloud, DevOps & Tooling
• Deployment experience on AWS / Azure / GCP for scalable Java apps.
• Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, automated testing).
• Build tools: Maven, Gradle; version control with Git.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability tools for production systems.
• Hands-on experience with modern LLMs (GPT, Gemini, LLaMA, etc.) built on transformer architectures.
• Expertise in AI agent development (autonomous, multi-step reasoning, task execution).
• Strong prompt engineering skills, including chain-of-thought prompting.

• AI Integration & Automation
• Proven ability to integrate AI into enterprise workflows
• Experience designing end-to-end AI workflow automation, including autonomous task execution.

• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• Experience building RAG pipelines with hybrid search, real-time data syncing, and secure knowledge layers

• Software Quality & Engineering Excellence
• Strong debugging, testing (JUnit, integration, performance), and refactoring skills.
• Ability to design scalable, secure, high-availability financial systems.
• Strong documentation and architectural design capabilities.

• Leadership & Collaboration
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Strong communication skills for explaining complex AI concepts.

Job Level: P3

• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large-scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines.
• This position requires the individual to support internally developed as well as externally purchased or developed applications as required by the business.
• The individual in this role is responsible for the technical implementation of solutions supporting business functionality.
• Work with multiple teams including, but not limited to, Product teams, different IT teams, QA, Release Management, Infrastructure, etc.
• Design and Development responsibilities
• Evolve & innovate tooling techniques to accelerate development, test and deliver lifecycles.
• 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.