Lead Software Engineer - Java Full stack

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a experienced Lead Software Engineer – Java Full Stack to provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on in the design and development of enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, modern UI frameworks, relational databases, and cloud/container platforms. This role requires someone who can lead technical design, guide engineers, improve engineering practices, and take end-to-end ownership from solution design through production deployment and support.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Lead complex, large-scale technology initiatives with broad organizational impact, providing technical leadership from solution design through implementation and production.
• Lead the architecture, design, and development of enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, and Angular/React.
• Remain hands-on with design, coding, testing, debugging, code reviews, and technical problem-solving, particularly for complex and critical components.
• Provide technical leadership across backend, frontend, database, API, integration, and infrastructure layers.
• Design and implement scalable, secure, resilient, high-performing, and maintainable applications aligned with enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
• Evaluate complex technology solutions considering business objectives, architectural requirements, scalability, security, performance, resiliency, and long-term maintainability.
• Establish and drive engineering standards and best practices across architecture, coding, automated testing, CI/CD, security, observability, and production readiness.
• Make key technical decisions by evaluating industry best practices, emerging technologies, architectural alternatives, technical risks, and business trade-offs.
• Lead architecture, design, and code reviews, identify technical risks, and ensure solutions meet established quality, security, reliability, and engineering standards.
• Drive application modernization, technical debt reduction, automation, performance optimization, and resiliency improvements.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex production issues, ensuring sustainable remediation and prevention of recurring issues.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, observability, and production-readiness practices.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, raising engineering capability and development standards across the team.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners, engineering teams, senior technology leaders, and business stakeholders to resolve complex technical challenges and deliver strategic initiatives.

Job Expectations:

• Strong hands-on expertise in Java 11/17/21 and Spring Boot
• Strong experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices
• Experience with Angular or React, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Experience with Kafka or other event-driven and messaging technologies
• Experience with JUnit, Mockito, and automated unit and integration testing
• Strong working knowledge of Git, Maven/Gradle, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud or enterprise private-cloud environments
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, integration patterns, scalability, performance, resiliency, and application security
• Experience with application monitoring, logging, tracing, observability, and production troubleshooting.

Posting End Date:

8 Nov 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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