Principal Engineer - RIA Platform Technology

Wells Fargo Bank•Iselin, NJ

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Advisor Platform Team within Wealth and Investment Management Technology (WIMT). The role serves as a senior technical leader for the Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) Platform, a strategic web-based platform supporting core custody capabilities including trading, money movement, account opening, and portfolio management. The Principal Engineer will shape platform architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction, and lead complex integrations with internal and third-party systems. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role involving solution design and implementation, team mentorship, and close partnership with product, security, and enterprise architecture stakeholders. The position offers a hybrid work schedule. Relocation assistance is not available.

Requirements

7+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, education, or a combination of these.
5 years of Java and Spring Boot experience.
4 years of React.js, Apache, and Kafka experience.
4 years of experience with MongoDB, relational databases, and caching technologies.
4 years of experience with distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud-native platforms.
4 years of resiliency, scalability, and performance engineering experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience building platforms for Wealth Management, Custody, Trading, or Advisory businesses.
Experience using AI-powered developer tooling, such as code generation, review, or test creation.
Prior success operating as a technical lead across multiple teams or product areas.

Responsibilities

Serve as the principal technical authority for the RIA platform, shaping its overall system architecture, design patterns, and long-term technical vision.
Define and enforce engineering standards for scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and maintainability across the platform.
Design and build critical platform components using Java, Spring Boot, and React.js.
Lead development of backend services, APIs, and frontend frameworks supporting core custody workflows.
Implement resiliency and reliability practices, including fault tolerance, circuit breaking, graceful degradation, and observability.
Lead complex integrations with third-party vendors and ensure integrations are secure, scalable, and compliant for multi-tenant and multi-channel RIA use cases.
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising overall engineering maturity and technical depth.