About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a lead software developer to provide technical leadership across complex software initiatives, ensuring high-quality design and delivery of scalable solutions aligned to business and enterprise objectives. You will be responsible for providing technical leadership across complex software initiatives, ensuring high-quality design and delivery of scalable solutions aligned to business and enterprise objectives. This role serves as a hands-on technical leader, standard bearer, and mentor, influencing engineering direction and execution across teams.
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
Act as a technical leader in establishing, evolving, and enforcing engineering standards, architectural patterns, and best practices for software development
Own solution design and implementation, including hands-on coding, testing, debugging, and documentation for critical components, projects, and programs
Review and evaluate complex software solutions to ensure alignment with strategic business goals, enterprise architecture, performance, security, and scalability requirements
Influence engineering teams through technical direction, code reviews, and design guidance to ensure delivery quality and consistency
Promote a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle
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
5+ years of experience building and managing enterprise-scale infrastructure using automation
5+ years of advanced coding or scripting skills, with a focus on infrastructure automation
Desired Qualifications:
6+ years of experience with programming SQL for database technologies such as Microsoft SQL, MySQL, Postgres
6+ years of strong development proficiency in PowerShell, Bash, Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS technologies
In-depth knowledge of RESTful API design
Familiarity with markup languages such as XML, JSON, YAML, and HTML
Experience with testing tools such as Playwright, Pester, PyUnit
Experience with IDE's such as VS Code, IntelliJ, PyCharm, Visual Studio, etc.
Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
Experience with orchestration such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Experience with artifact repositories such as Artifactory
Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and BigPanda
Experience with logging tools such as Splunk
Experience with performance testing tools such as LoadRunner
Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift).
Experience with Agile/scrum methodologies and tools like Jira, etc.
Job Expectations:
This position offers a hybrid work schedule
This position does offer Visa sponsorship
Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.
$119,000.00 - $206,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs (https://www.wellsfargojobs.com/en/life-at-wells-fargo/benefits) for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
Health benefits
401(k) Plan
Paid time off
Disability benefits
Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
Parental leave
Critical caregiving leave
Discounts and savings
Commuter benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Scholarships for dependent children
Adoption reimbursement
Posting End Date:
8 May 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.
Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo (https://www.wellsfargojobs.com/en/diversity/disability-inclusion/) .
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy (https://www.wellsfargojobs.com/en/wells-fargo-drug-and-alcohol-policy) to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
Req Number: R-541273
