Lead Authentication Software Engineer

Wells Fargo & Company•San Leandro, CA

4d•$119,000 - $224,000•Onsite

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within the Digital Technology and Innovation group, which supports the Corporate Strategy, Digital Platform & Innovation Business. The group works to evolve Wells Fargo’s digital platforms and integrate its innovation pipeline into customer-facing capabilities. The role requires deep authentication and security expertise, strong Java microservices architecture skills, and experience leading large-scale platforms. The engineer will drive AuthHub’s enterprise authentication vision across Digital, Contact Center, Branch, and Fraud ecosystems. AuthHub provides authentication orchestration, authentication strength evaluation, session management, auditability, and secure customer authentication across channels. The role drives enterprise-wide solutions and collaborates across business and technology teams. The position requires onsite presence at an approved location. Visa sponsorship or transfer and relocation assistance are not available. The listed base pay range is $119,000 to $224,000; employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities. The posting end date is October 22, 2026.

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, education, or a combination.
4+ years of Java development and Spring Boot framework development in API integration design.
3+ years of experience with microservices architecture and REST API design and versioning.
3+ years of MongoDB experience.
2+ years of Kafka experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience effectively using Agentic AI tools for the software development lifecycle.
Strong understanding of enterprise authentication and identity verification, including MFA and step-up authentication patterns, authentication strength models, risk-based authentication, session management, token lifecycle, TTL, and authorization concepts.
Reliability engineering experience, including SLA/SLO management, performance testing, production support leadership, and incident management.
Agile delivery leadership experience, including sprint planning and execution, backlog refinement, technical cost estimation, release planning, and release hardening.
Experience collaborating across business and technology teams, participating in architecture discussions, and managing stakeholders.
Banking industry experience in authentication and security.
Leadership skills, including mentoring senior engineers, building technical roadmaps, and architecture governance.
Operational excellence experience with Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics, dashboard development, and service health monitoring.

Responsibilities

Lead complex technology initiatives, including companywide initiatives with broad impact.
Help develop engineering standards and companywide best practices for complex, large-scale technology solutions.
Design, code, test, debug, and document projects and programs.
Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions against tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technology environment, and technical challenges.
Make decisions about engineering and technology best practices, influence and lead technology teams, meet deliverables, and drive new initiatives.
Collaborate and consult with technical experts, senior technology teams, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals.
Lead projects and teams, or serve as a peer mentor.
Drive AuthHub’s enterprise authentication vision across Digital, Contact Center, Branch, and Fraud ecosystems.