Senior Software Engineer

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead transformational engineering initiatives across Generative AI, Chaos Engineering. This role drives modernization of engineering practices, resilience frameworks, automation capabilities, and AI-augmented engineering solutions supporting mission-critical platforms across Wells Fargo Technology.

This position is suited for a highly influential technical leader with deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability engineering, and AI-capable of shaping enterprise strategy, mentoring engineering talent, and delivering resilient, scalable, and innovative solutions. Candidates with prior Lead or Senior Software Engineer-level impact or industry recognition will receive strong preference.

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 Qualifications:

• Software Engineering experience with strong exposure to automation and Platform Engineering
• Experience with Gen AI/LLM based solutions those are implemented in production
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer science, engineering or related field.
  
  

Job Expectations:

• Lead the design and development of automation frameworks and platform tools used across engineering and operations teams
• Build scalable Python based automation services, APIs and backend utilities
• Develop intuitive React based UI for monitoring, orchestration and operational visibility
• Build Gen AI powered solutions such as incident summarization, runbook generation and operational insights
• Develop LLM powered assistants for engineering and support teams
• Design Agentic AI workflows where AI agents can analyze issues, trigger automations and execute multi step tasks with human oversight
• Implement RAG pipelines, embeddings and prompt engineering techniques
• Ensure AI Solutions follow security, governance and responsible AI practices
• Create and manage job scheduling workflows using Autosys
• Write and optimize Shell scripts for system automation, deployments and operational tasks
• Drive platform reliability and scalability through automation of repetitive operational processes
• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE and Application & Support teams to identify automation Opportunities
• Participate in incident response and problem management, building automations to prevent recurrence
• Develop solutions using REST APIs, system integrations and service orchestrations
• Experience working with version control systems (Git)
• Experience with containerization (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Experience with Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Strong problem solving and system design skills
• Proactive mindset with a focus on automation-first thinking
  
  

Posting End Date:

24 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.

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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-518615