- Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer
- 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
- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- Core skills - 5+ years Java/J2EE Web Application Development, Spring (Core, MVC, AOP, Batch), Web Services (REST, SOAP etc.), Kafka (streaming technologies), integration technologies, Cloud Technologies (AWS/PCF), Microservices & knowledge on Oracle, MongoDB database.
- Experience with GenAI tools, including an in-depth exploration of various LLM models, efficient utilization techniques
- Knowledge in agent-based' approach.
- Strong in OOAD, Multi-threaded application development, design and implementation of web applications, Design Patterns
- Experience in Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) & Domain Driven Development (DDD).
- Hands on Experience in using BDD testing frameworks (Cucumber, karate etc.)
- Product & Design Knowledge - Experience with Product Development, Large Enterprise Scale Integrations (preferably in design/development of customer facing large enterprise applications)
- Experience in Consumer Banking or any complex middleware applications
- API - driven development - Experience working with remote data via SOAP, REST and JSON.
- Experience with Applications Performance Tuning, Scaling, Security, Resiliency Best Practices
- Hands on experience in delivering high value projects in Agile (SCRUM) methodology using preferably JIRA tool.
- Unit Testing (JUnit preferred)/ TDD - Scripting & Automated Testing, Continuous Integration and deployment (Jenkins)
- Good business communication skills in English
- System Knowledge & Analysis
- Problem solving & critical thinking
- Build efficient and high performing solutions to meet the business requirements
- Participate effectively in the entire software development life cycle
- Define and Design solutions to meet the business and strategic requirements
- Organize, lead and motivate development resources to meet expected deliverables and quality standards across multiple releases
- Provides technical direction to the project team and perform code reviews
- Collaborate with team to design, develop, test and refine deliverables that meet the objectives
- Should be able to contribute actively to In sprint automation
- Handling all production support escalations and EACO calls during India day hours
- Motivate team members and promote a strong sense of support, ownership and urgency
- Facilitate communications within the team and facilitate knowledge sharing amongst the team and other personnel.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, System Architects, Analysts and any other stakeholders as needed
Desired Skills
- Good to have Certification in Google/Azure Cloud, AWS Associate level / Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) developer, Container and Kubernetes experience.
3 Sep 2025
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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