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:

• 4+ years of experience in Java/J2EE development (Analysis, design, development, testing and delivery of application software)
• Experience in design and build of Java based web applications with frameworks and libraries such as Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Web Services, JDBC Template
• Expertise in creating and consuming SOAP & REST web services
• Experience in development and maintenance of web applications and enterprise applications
• Strong in Core Java with experience on Java 8 / Java 17 features
• Oracle SQL Experience
• Experience on Java Messaging JMS, Kafka
• Understanding of Cloud principles and experience on developing application hosted on cloud environment. Experience with OCP (OpenShift Container Platform) is preferred
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Gradle, Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory, UDeploy, Sonar etc.
• Experience on automated unit testing framework Junit
• Experience on Docker, Kubernetes
• Ability to learn and use inhouse built java based framework
• Experience on agile software development lifecycle.
• Object oriented design and analysis, programming styles and design patterns
• Experience in resolving Application security issues.

Non-Technical:

• Capable of reasoning and thinking through problems and developing desired solutions, independently or with others as required
• Capable of leading development team and mentor team members on solution design and implementation
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good written and verbal communication
• Ability to work independently with little or no supervision.
• Ability to understand team dynamics and use interpersonal skills and personal judgment to achieve goals

Job expectations:

• Understanding of GenAI enabled solutions, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering and agentic workflows
• Understanding of Banking domain

Posting End Date:
28 Sep 2025
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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