Lead Authentication Software Engineer

Wells Fargo & Company•San Leandro, CA

1d•$119,000 - $224,000•Onsite

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer within its Digital Technology and Innovation group, which supports the Corporate Strategy, Digital Platform & Innovation business. The role will lead authentication engineering for the AuthHub platform and help drive its enterprise authentication vision across Digital, Contact Center, Branch, and Fraud ecosystems. AuthHub supports authentication orchestration, authentication strength evaluation, session management, auditability, and secure customer authentication across channels. The engineer will bring deep authentication and security expertise, strong Java microservices architecture skills, and large-scale platform leadership experience. They will develop and review complex technology solutions, establish engineering standards and best practices, lead initiatives and teams, and collaborate with business and technology partners and technical experts. The position requires onsite presence at an approved location. Visa sponsorship or transfer and relocation assistance are not available.

Requirements

At least 5 years of software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
At least 4 years of Java development and Spring Boot framework development in API integration design.
At least 3 years of experience with microservices architecture and REST API design and versioning.
At least 3 years of MongoDB experience.
At least 2 years of Kafka experience.
Ability to be onsite at one of the approved locations.
Must not require visa sponsorship or transfer; the position is not eligible for either.

Nice To Haves

Experience effectively using Agentic AI tools for the software development lifecycle.
Enterprise authentication and identity verification expertise, including MFA, step-up authentication, authentication-strength models, risk-based authentication, session management, token lifecycle, TTL, and authorization concepts.
Reliability engineering experience with SLA/SLO management, performance testing, production support leadership, and incident management.
Agile delivery leadership in sprint planning and execution, backlog refinement, technical cost estimation, release planning, and release hardening.
Cross-functional business and technology collaboration, architecture discussions, and stakeholder management.
Banking industry experience in authentication and security.
Leadership experience mentoring senior engineers, building technical roadmaps, and providing 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.
Participate in developing 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 business objectives, the enterprise technology environment, and technical challenges.
Make decisions on engineering and technology best practices, influence and lead technology teams, meet deliverables, and drive 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 enterprise authentication solutions for AuthHub across Digital, Contact Center, Branch, and Fraud ecosystems.