Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo • St. Louis, MO

1d • $159,000 - $254,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Investment Solutions team within Wealth & Investment Management Technology (WIMT). The role is suited to a proactive, driven engineer with strong development fundamentals, a passion for innovation, and a track record of delivering results. The engineer will use AI-assisted development tools, solve complex business challenges, and help shape the future of Wells Fargo’s platforms while growing their skills and influence.

The Principal Engineer advises leadership on technology for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups. The role leads the strategy and resolution of enterprise-wide challenges, translating advanced technology expertise and knowledge of business objectives and the enterprise environment into long-term engineering solutions. The engineer provides vision and direction for innovative business solutions, stays current with industry practices and technologies, recommends operational improvements, and serves as an expert advisor to professionals and managers across the enterprise.

This position offers a hybrid work schedule. Relocation assistance is not available, and the position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or transfer. The listed annual base pay range for the posted locations is $159,000–$254,000 USD. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities. The posting lists end dates of September 11, 2026, and October 18, 2026.

Requirements

• 7+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 7+ years of experience with Spring Boot in the Java ecosystem or ASP.NET Core in .NET.
• 5+ years of experience with React or Angular.
• 3+ years of experience providing vision, direction, and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions.
• 2+ years of experience with MongoDB or another NoSQL database.
• 1 year of experience with AI-assisted development, such as GitHub Copilot, Devin, or Claude.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence technical decisions.
• Strong collaboration skills with product owners, architects, developers, QA teams, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in geographically distributed and cross-functional Agile teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on identifying scalable solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies and engineering practices.
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and commitment to delivering high-quality results.
• Customer-focused mindset and commitment to reliability, stability, security, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Advise leadership on applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups.
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex challenges that require in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering long-term, large-scale solutions requiring vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking.
• Translate advanced technology experience and knowledge of business objectives, the enterprise technology environment, organizational structure, and strategic technology opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions.
• Provide vision, direction, and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions.
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommend innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage.
• Engage strategically with professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership.
• Fulfill applicable risk program, policy, compliance, monitoring, governance, escalation, remediation, and sound risk-decision responsibilities described in the posting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed