About this role:

The Technology Change, Investment and Portfolio Management (TCIPM) is seeking a Lead Software Engineering. Falling under the Management & Resiliency (TMR) Line of Business, this group provides technology solutions and support for multiple Technology business lines. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com.

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer who enjoys and thrives on solving complex problems through innovation impacting change at scale. Our mission is to deliver stable, secure, scalable, and innovative services at speeds that delight and satisfy our customers and unleash the skills potential of our employees. The ideal candidate will be a forward thinker, passionate technologist and expert in modern software development technologies, APIs, web services.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives by applying core development principles, practices, and procedures to the development of various applications within the group
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and adopting best practices for engineering complex and large-scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
• Design, code, test, debug, and document software 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
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, cross-technology teams to communicate ideas and resolve complex technical issues to achieve goals
• Serve as an escalation point for application support and troubleshooting, provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff in resolution of escalated issues and/or complex production, application or system problems 
• Facilitate building out of the Product Development backlog(s) with portfolio stakeholders to support the business and technical Product roadmap; work with Product Owner to prioritize backlog(s)
• Design, build, and maintain AI-enabled applications using React, TypeScript, Python, and modern API frameworks. 
• Build and maintain Python backend services, APIs, MCP services, and integration layers using frameworks such as MCP, FastAPI & Flask. 
• Design, implement, and integrate with MCP servers and MCP clients that enable secure context sharing between models, tools, applications, and agent runtimes. 
• Develop and support agentic workflows that execute complex, multi-step tasks using frameworks such as LangChain Deep Agents, Google ADK, or similar agent frameworks. 
• Build skill-based and modular agents that decompose capabilities into reusable, composable, and versioned skills. 
• Build reusable components, services, tool schemas, and integration patterns that can be shared across enterprise AI applications. 
• Integrate logging, tracing, and observability frameworks, including Arize & Splunk compatible logging and agent observability tooling. 
• Ensure applications and services are ready for deployment on enterprise container platforms such as OpenShift or Kubernetes. 
• Collaborate with AI developers, platform engineers, product teams, and architecture partners to deliver robust and scalable AI solutions. 

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
• 4+ years of experience with a modern development language. (.NET, Python, React, Java, etc.) with emphasis on the Microsoft development tools and environments
• 4+ years of experience with relational databases

Desired Qualifications:

• 3+ years working with cloud, container, or hybrid platforms, including Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• 1+ year of experience with AI/ML concepts, including Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering
• 1+ years of experience with Co-pilot and/or Devin
• Knowledge of observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and tracing
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools such as:
  Github, Harness, Artifactory, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Black Duck, Splunk
• 3+ years of experience with API design and development (RESTful and GraphQL)
• 2+ years of experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of event streaming platforms such as Kafka
• Knowledge of caching technologies such as Redis
• Proven experience designing and scaling enterprise GenAI platforms and AI-driven products.
• Strong expertise in Agentic AI, multi-agent systems, RAG architectures, Knowledge Graphs, and long-term memory frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with cloud AI platforms such as Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.
• Strong proficiency in Python with experience building services using frameworks such as Fast MCP, FastAPI & Flask. 
• Experience developing and integrating with REST APIs, asynchronous services, and event-driven architectures. 
• Experience establishing AI observability, monitoring, evaluation, resiliency, and reliability practices.
• Knowledge of AI security, responsible AI, governance, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with automated testing with Playwright, performance testing, code reviews, and CI/CD practices. 

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Ability to work on-site at approved location at least three days/week
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Pay Range
 

Posting End Date:

*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:

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