Join Wells Fargo at a pivotal moment of transformation. We are looking for a collaborative, forward-thinking Senior Software Engineering Manager who thrives in agile environments, embraces complex technology challenges, and is motivated by building high-performing teams that deliver meaningful outcomes.
In this role, you won't just lead software development-you'll shape the future of critical financial solutions that directly support millions of customers. You'll have the opportunity to grow and mentor talented engineers, influence technical strategy, and expand your expertise across a broad and evolving technology landscape. Our culture values diverse perspectives, continuous learning, and authentic leadership , recognizing each individual's strengths while encouraging curiosity and growth.
As a key leader on our Card and Personal Lending Payment Assistance initiatives, you'll partner closely with Product Managers, Product Owners, Support, and SRE teams to accelerate delivery and drive real-world impact. If you're energized by purpose-driven work, collaborative problem-solving, and the chance to lead at enterprise scale, this is an opportunity to make your mark at Wells Fargo.
In this role, you will:
Manage, coach, and develop a team or teams of experienced engineers and engineering managers in roles with moderate complexity and risk, responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology.
Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture and meeting non-functional requirements with each release.
Partner with, engage and influence architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture and enable application migration paths to target architecture, for example cloud readiness, application modernization, data strategy.
Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning.
Identify and recommend opportunities for driving escalated resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards.
Determine appropriate strategy and actions to act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to meet moderate to high-risk deliverables and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement.
Build engineering skills side-by-side in the codebase, conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment to technical direction, and guide design, as needed.
Interpret, develop and ensure security, stability, and scalability within functions of technology with moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk.
Collaborate with, partner with and influence Product Managers/Product Owners to drive user satisfaction, influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmap, promote innovative and intelligent solutions, generate corporate value and articulate technical strategy while being a solid advocate of agile and DevOps practices.
Interact directly with third party vendors and technology service providers.
Manage allocation of people and financial resources to ensure commitments are met and align with strategic objectives in technology engineering.
Hire, build and guide a culture of talent development to have the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for product areas and products to meet business objectives and strategy, as well as conduct performance management for engineers and managers.
Required Qualifications:
7+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
3+ years of management or leadership experience.
4+ years of Agile and the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
5+ Years of experience in either Credit Card and/or Personal Loan Collections within a financial services company.
Desired Qualifications:
Experience in modern software best practices, including. microservices architecture, cloud-native deployment and devops.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Proven ability to build consensus among key stakeholders that may not be under your management control.
Job Expectations:
Be Humble: You're smart yet always interested in learning from others.
Work Transparently: You always deal in an honest, direct, and transparent way.
Take Ownership: You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers.
Learn More: You regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.
Show Gratitude: You show appreciation and respect to those you work with.
Posting End Date:
18 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.
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