Lead Software Engineer

About This Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer. We believe in the power of working together because great ideas can come from anyone. Through collaboration, any employee can have an impact and make a difference for the entire company. Explore opportunities with us for a career in a supportive environment where you can learn and grow."

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:

• Provide L2 support experience with extensive debugging experience and incident management and problem management.
• Take appropriate steps to bring any open support cases to resolution in timely manner.
• Provide applications and product support by checking issues in Splunk and have experience working on Splunk queries and creating dashboards and setting up notification in Splunk.
• Work on monitoring tools such as AppDynamics.
• Work on designing, operationalizing, maintaining and scaling production MW applications in Tomcat, JBoss, Apache and Weblogic.
• Identify Issue/problems related to process, assess, identify and fix performance related issues.
• Work on Deployment, Configuration management with good troubleshooting skill for MW Products
• Work on analyzing, understanding and documenting the business processes in detail where required.
• Work extensively on innovation and service improvements.
• Identify and communicating the technical infrastructure requirements.
• Support existing processes and implementing change requirements as part of a structured change control process.
• Provide guidance, Training and up skilling the development team as required
• Capture, share Implement the best practices
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior members of the team.
• Experienced in application performance analysis using Splunk and App Dynamics.
• Knowledge of Web, Application & Database Servers Support.
• Ability to think out of the box to design, build and implement solutions across various business lines
• Strong communications skills, both in writing and speaking.
• Understanding of resiliency and chaos engineering
  
  

Posting End Date:

16 Apr 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.

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.

Wells Fargo Recruitment And Hiring Requirements

• Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
• Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
  
  

Reference Number

R-535463