Gen AI - Lead Software Automation Engineer

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119K-224K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
Wells Fargo: Tech-powered. Innovation-led. We're transforming financial services.
The Role
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a hands-on Senior Specialty Software Engineer within Digital Technology - AI Capability Engineering to build core user-facing experiences for the Enterprise Generative AI Platform, with strong emphasis on UI engineering, Python development, and enterprise AI application delivery.
This role is for an exceptional engineer who is heavy on UI, highly productive in Python, and capable of building polished, performant, and maintainable software across the full stack. The engineer will develop the user experiences and supporting service layers that power Enterprise Generative AI Platform products such as developer portals, AI chat and workflow interfaces, runtime dashboards, operational tooling, and agent-enabled product surfaces.
In this role, you will:
  • Design, develop, test, and deploy software modules and platform capabilities for the Enterprise Generative AI Platform
  • Build rich, responsive, and highly usable UI experiences for internal AI products, platform consoles, and workflow-driven applications
  • Develop and maintain scalable applications using Python, APIs, microservices, and modern frontend technologies
  • Engineer frontend components and interaction patterns for chat experiences, streaming responses, form-heavy workflows, dashboards, and control panels
  • Collaborate with enterprise teams to integrate platform UIs with AI services, agent runtimes, model endpoints, orchestration services, and platform APIs
  • Implement reusable components, UI state management patterns, and design-system-aligned development standards
  • Optimize application performance across frontend rendering, service latency, API interactions, and user workflow responsiveness
  • Build backend capabilities in Python that support frontend needs including orchestration endpoints, metadata services, execution tracking, and runtime status APIs
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across UI and service layers
  • Contribute to automated testing, code quality, documentation, and secure software delivery practices
  • Stay up to date with advancements in Generative AI, agent frameworks, UI engineering, and Python ecosystem tooling
  • Partner with product owners, architects, designers, and other engineers to translate product requirements into elegant technical solutions
  • Assist and mentor other engineers in advanced software development and platform engineering best practices
Required Qualifications:
  • 4+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
  • 4+ years of software development experience
Desired Qualifications:
  • 4+ years of experience in Python
  • 3+ years of experience building modern web UI applications
  • 2+ years of experience in AI/ML or Generative AI application development
  • Experience building and integrating APIs, microservices, or event-driven backend services
  • Strong UI engineering skills using technologies such as React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and modern component-based design patterns
  • Experience building enterprise-grade internal tools, platform portals, dashboards, and highly interactive application interfaces
  • Strong Python development skills including frameworks, API development, async patterns, and service integration
  • Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Swarm, Google ADK, or equivalent
  • Experience with chat applications, orchestration-driven UX, streaming responses, and workflow-based interfaces
  • Exposure to OpenShift, Kubernetes, GCP public cloud, Azure, and modern DevOps practices
  • Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and agile development methodologies
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work effectively with cross functional teams
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, or a related field
Job Expectations
  • This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
  • This position offers a hybrid work schedule
  • Relocation assistance is not available for this position
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 - $224,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs 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 .
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:
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.

Skills Required

  • 4+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience
  • 4+ years of software development experience
  • 4+ years of experience in Python
  • 3+ years of experience building modern web UI applications
  • 2+ years of experience in AI/ML or Generative AI application development
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