Lead Software Engineer P4

About This Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and operate enterprise-scale, cloud-native applications. This role is a senior hands-on individual contributor responsible for delivering complex, high-impact solutions while ensuring production stability, performance, and security. You will collaborate with U.S.-based teams in a global delivery model and drive engineering excellence across people, processes, and technology.

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:

• Lead architecture, design, and development using Node.js, React, and Azure
• Design and build enterprise-grade APIs (REST/event-driven) with proper governance
• Define API standards including versioning, documentation, and lifecycle management
• Deliver containerized applications using OpenShift / Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) integrated with enterprise databases
• Implement RBAC and SSO (SAML, OAuth, OIDC)
• Own end-to-end delivery including build, deploy, and production support
• Implement APM, observability, logging, and tracing
• Apply SDLC, CI/CD, testing, and code review best practices
• Ensure security, scalability, resiliency, and performance
• Lead NPI activities and ensure production readiness
• Collaborate across Product, Architecture, Infra, and Security
• Mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement.
• 8+ years software engineering experience
• Strong Node.js, React, Azure expertise
• Experience designing and building APIs (REST, event-driven, secure, versioned)
• Experience with containerized microservices (OpenShift / AKS)
• Database integration (SQL/NoSQL)
• SSO (SAML, OAuth, OIDC) and RBAC experience
• APM tools (App Insights, Dynatrace, Splunk, New Relic)
• Secure, scalable, production systems experience
• Global team collaboration experience
• DevOps, CI/CD expertise.

Job Expectations:

• Financial services experience
• IAM and access governance familiarity
• Kubernetes and IaC experience
• API gateway / service mesh exposure
• Event-driven architecture knowledge
• NPI lifecycle experience
• SRE and performance tuning exposure.
• Lead-level IC owning complex deliverables
• Independent decision-making
• Drive engineering excellence and improvements
• Influence across teams without authority
• Balance customer, risk, performance, and cost

Posting End Date:

23 Jun 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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