Senior Software Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer.

In this role, you will:* Lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within technical domain environments

• Contribute to large scale planning of strategies
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs associated with technology domain, including upgrades and deployments
• Review moderately complex technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of technologies and procedures
• Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet existing client needs or potential new clients needs while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, or compliance requirements
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve technical challenges and achieve goals
• Lead projects and act as an escalation point, provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff

Required Qualifications:* 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:* Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable microservices using Java and Spring Boot

• Own end to end delivery of features across design, development, deployment, and production support
• Build RESTful APIs and integrate with internal and external services
• Apply clean code, SOLID principles, and design patterns to ensure maintainable solutions
• Participate in architecture and design reviews, influencing technical direction
• Ensure high standards of performance, scalability, security, and reliability
• Write comprehensive unit, integration, and automated tests
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, performing root cause analysis
• Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, QA, DevOps, and other engineers
• Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices
• Actively participate in code reviews and continuous improvement initiatives
• Should be able to understand project documents, customer demands, and product objectives to help the businesses or partner systems to adopt our product.
• Must be able to read and understand complex documentation in order to learn and apply best practices and methodologies for our clients
• Should be able to perform a Gap analysis on Requirements, Functional Specs, and review with project management team.
• Must have strong analytical skills and be able to successfully multitask in a result driven environment.
• Should have strong interpersonal and communication skills to work with different stakeholders and ensure high quality results.
• Work with US and India teams closely on the business requirement / initiative.
• Analyze business needs as they relate to client business objectives and creation of lean processes; contribute towards development efforts on need basis
• Contribute to the design discussions
• Provide technical expertise to support team during incident/problem resolution.
• Monitor Production Applications Logs using Splunk and AppDynamics
• Should have strong understanding of Agile methodologies. Experience in working with Scrum teams is an added advantage.
• Should be able to contribute actively to In-sprint automation.
• Excellent understanding of JIRA life cycle, hands on experience in JIRA is required to perform requirement gathering, tracking progress, test case design, execution, defect management and analyzing results.
• Act as a technical advisor for cross-functional teams, ensuring that architectural and security standards are maintained.
• Work with business teams, product owners, and partner systems to define scope, dependencies, and adoption strategies for new initiatives.
• Engage in Scrum of Scrums to track dependencies, remove blockers, and align technical teams towards shared goals.
• Participate in scope reevaluation discussions to ensure commitments and prioritization align with product roadmaps.
• Collaborate with security and governance teams to classify documents, define trust levels, and ensure compliance with data retention policies.
• Document and communicate exceptions, corrective actions, and approvals
• Willingness to improve or add to existing documentation
• Required Skills & Qualifications:
• Strong proficiency in Java (v 8+)
• Extensive experience with Spring Boot, including Spring MVC | Spring Data JPA / JDBC | Spring Security
• Hands on experience designing and building Microservices architectures
• Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, and API versioning
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: Service discovery | Load balancing | Circuit breakers | Fault tolerance

Job Expectations:* Experience with databases: Relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) | NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis) - preferred

• Familiarity with messaging/streaming systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and build tools (Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Strong debugging and performance tuning skills
• Bachelor's/master's degree in computer science or equivalent or relevant experience in the job market
• Experience in software engineering, product enablement, governance, or technical consulting.
• Ability to analyzes scope, dependencies, and technical challenges to drive alignment and decision-making.
• Hands-on experience on Distributed Systems web development across Java/JEE, Webservices (SOAP / REST)
• Experienced with understanding both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Proven ability to effectively deliver results as required.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate across teams.
• Strong oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to operate independently under strict timelines.
• High level of cultural awareness.
• Ability to train system users.
• Should be an AI/ML literate
• Strong problem-solving skills, debugging, and optimization expertise.
• Preferred Skills:
• Having ECM domain knowledge
• Experience of working across one or more geographic territories or regions
• Full stack development
• Enterprise client service or related business experience

Posting End Date:

23 Apr 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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