Lead Software Engineer

Wells Fargo•Charlotte, NC

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking an experienced, hands-on Lead Software Developer with financial services experience and expertise in full-stack development, application design, containerization, and DevOps. The position provides end-to-end technical ownership, from design and development through CI/CD, containerized deployment, and production readiness. It leads technical delivery, mentors engineers, and builds secure, scalable, resilient, high-performing enterprise applications. The role leads application design, development, testing, deployment, modernization, and migration to OCP/Kubernetes-based container environments. It develops APIs, microservices, integrations, backend services, and containerized applications, and supports CI/CD pipelines, production deployments, and post-production stabilization. The engineer collaborates across business, architecture, infrastructure, security, operations, and QA teams, and acts as a technical representative for the product in cross-team planning and delivery. The position also supports risk and compliance obligations, quality and security assurance, application troubleshooting, technical standards, code and design reviews, and guidance for less-experienced staff. It operates within Agile development practices and ensures that solutions meet architecture strategies and non-functional requirements throughout the lifecycle.

Requirements

Strong hands-on software engineering experience with Java/Spring Boot, Python, or comparable enterprise development technologies.
Strong experience with OpenShift (OCP), Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized application deployment.
Hands-on experience designing and developing REST APIs, microservices, and distributed applications.
Strong experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab, Harness, or equivalent.
Experience with automated build, test, deployment, and release pipelines.
Strong understanding of Linux, networking, application configuration, certificates, secrets, and container troubleshooting.
Experience with databases and application integration patterns.
Experience implementing logging, monitoring, observability, and production support capabilities.
Strong understanding of the complete SDLC and path-to-production process.
Ability to independently drive technical solutions from requirements through production deployment.
Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
4+ years of experience with infrastructure automation tools and CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to e-Communication Surveillance/Compliance functions.
Cloud experience using Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Working knowledge of APM tools such as Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, or ITRS.
Experience migrating legacy or on-premises applications to OCP or cloud/container platforms.
Ability to work effectively in a virtual environment with team members and partners across time zones and locations.
Experience with API gateways and enterprise integration platforms.
Knowledge of cloud-native architecture and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
A BS/BA degree or higher in information technology.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of scalable enterprise applications and services.
Provide hands-on technical leadership across design, development, containerization, DevOps, and production implementation.
Modernize and migrate applications to OCP/Kubernetes-based container environments.
Develop and maintain containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
Debug, test, validate, conduct data quality checks, and tune performance for applications written in Java/Python, PySpark, and SQL/NoSQL.
Collaborate with business, architecture, infrastructure, security, operations, and QA teams to deliver solutions.
Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to automate build, testing, deployment, and release processes.
Drive solutions through development, UAT, production readiness, and deployment in partnership with relevant teams.
Develop APIs, microservices, integrations, and backend services as required.
Troubleshoot complex application, container, deployment, production, and performance issues.
Promote engineering practices for code quality, resiliency, scalability, security, automation, and observability.
Conduct code and design reviews and provide technical guidance to other engineers.
Own production deployments and post-production stabilization and support.
Support application modernization, cloud adoption, and DevOps initiatives.
Assure quality, security, and compliance for supported systems and applications.
Provide technical support, advice, and consultation on issues relating to supported applications.
Create test data and conduct interface and unit tests.
Design, code, test, debug, and document programs using Agile development practices.
Help ensure compliance and risk management requirements are met, and work with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives.
Research and resolve process problems and recommend solutions and improvements.
Assist others in advanced software development and collaborate with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
Resolve moderately complex issues to meet client needs while applying relevant functional, policy, procedural, and compliance knowledge.
Lead projects, act as an escalation point, and provide guidance and direction to less-experienced staff.
Partner with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies.
Ensure adherence to Banking Product & Platform Architecture and fulfillment of non-functional requirements throughout each lifecycle.
Represent the product technically in cross-team collaboration and planning.