Lead Software Engineer

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer.
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
• 2+ years working with GCP (Google Cloud Platform and its services ) or alternate public/hybrid cloud and a proven track record delivering products with cloud services and cloud architectures at scale.
• 2+ years of experience with Python
• 2+ years of experience with GenAI, LLMs, RAG, vector databases and conversational bots
• 1+ years of experience with Playbooks , Vertex AI
• Exposure to ADK (hands-on) and Voice AI

Desired Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Contact Center industry experience with design, development, testing, integration with vendors, CRMs and business applications. Proven knowledge in one or more of the contact center sub domains such as: IVR/IVA, NLU/NLP, Real Time Omni channel Agent experience and customer journey, CX/AX experience optimization using AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning)
• 4+ years of experience with Node JS, JAVA, Spring Boot, Kafka, Distributed Caches (GemFire, Redis), Elastic Search technologies, GraphQL, and NoSQL Databases (Cassandra or Mongo), Graph Databases, Public Cloud Marketplace services
• 2+ years of Deep Domain Driven Design experience with cloud native Microservices designed and developed for massive scale and seamless resiliency, deployed on PCF/VMWare Tanzu, K8s or Serverless cloud technologies.
• 3+ years of experience with automated testing frameworks for Unit testing for Java/Python and UI Micro services, Service Virtualization and Contract Testing, API Testing with Blazemeter/JMeter, WebRTC signaling and audio testing including audio quality, performance stress and load tests, and chaos resiliency automated testing for full stack, lower environment data conditioning and testing.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with TrueCD, DevOps with Cucumber, GitHub Actions,
• Experience working in Agile environment and product backlog refinement against ongoing engineering work, Agile at scale, conducting discoveries and process improvements to accelerate software development.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tool Terraform and GitHub, understanding of concepts and familiarity working within modern IaC/EaC pipelines.
• Scripting and infrastructure automation, including Python/Go, Shell, Gherkin, PowerShell etc.
• Professional cloud certification on Azure/GCP or other cloud providers.
• Full stack application development is a plus.
• Ability to rationalize risk controls into policy outcomes.
• Should have good understanding of Network Security Experience and Enterprise Architecture and OWASP Security practices exemplified through previous projects.
• 3+ years of real time low latency, front-end Web applications React, Redux, RXJS, Typescript, progressive Web Apps with responsive design with Rest APIs, real time eventing gRPC or Web Sockets using Micro front end architecture.

Job Expectations:

• Take Ownership and accountability for end-to-end delivery
• Shold guide team members technically
• Should be proficient in communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to deal with internal and external stakeholders

Posting End Date:
6 Oct 2025
*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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