Lead Specialty Software Engineer - AI Enginnering

About This Role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer - AI Engineering to drive the development and integration of AI-powered solutions across complex, business-critical systems. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in backend and frontend development, modern AI/Generative AI frameworks, and a proven ability to lead initiatives while ensuring operational excellence, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
In This Role, You Will

• Lead complex technical initiatives within assigned domains, delivering scalable and resilient AI-enabled solutions
• Design, develop, test, and implement applications, system components, tools, utilities, and services leveraging modern technologies
• Build and integrate AI and Generative AI capabilities into enterprise applications, including LLM-driven features
• Ensure systems are effectively monitored to improve operational efficiency and proactively mitigate risk
• Identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization, enhance processes, and reduce operational costs
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex coding, testing, and escalated platform issues
• Lead teams to ensure compliance with security, risk, and regulatory requirements, and partner with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Mentor and coach less experienced software engineers, promoting best practices and technical growth
• Collaborate with and influence stakeholders across engineering, product, platform, and production support teams
• Lead teams to successfully meet project objectives, milestones, and delivery expectations
• Partner closely with production support and platform engineering teams to ensure system stability and continuity

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, education, or military service
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing backend applications using Python and/or Java, including RESTful services and frameworks such as Spring Boot
• 2+ years of experience building modern user interfaces or chatbot applications using React and/or Angular, with a solid understanding of component-based architecture
• 2+ years of experience working with AI or Generative AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph) to build or integrate AI-enabled application features

Desired Qualifications

• Experience participating in LLM evaluation or validation activities, including testing, quality assessment, or performance analysis of model outputs
• Demonstrated knowledge of prompt engineering techniques, including prompt design, experimentation, iteration, and optimization
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to improve developer productivity and code quality
• Experience contributing to reusable components, libraries, or shared frameworks within an enterprise application environment
• Familiarity with AI observability, evaluation, or monitoring tools to support reliability, performance, and governance

Job Expectations

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• This role is not eligible for 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.
$159,000.00 - $305,000.00
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:
5 Feb 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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