Lead Full Stack Java Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Lead Engineer to drive the end-to-end delivery of strategic lending technology solutions supporting new product launches and feature enhancements within Retail Services within the Consumer Technology (CT) Organization. This role combines technical leadership, architecture ownership, and delivery accountability across the commercial lending lifecycle, including loan origination, servicing, and delivery. Learn more about the career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com.

The successful candidate will partner closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams to define roadmaps, make key technical decisions, and lead agile delivery teams in executing business priorities. They will provide technical direction through architecture guidance, code reviews, solution design, and mentoring while ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost effective.

This role requires a strong balance of technical depth and leadership, including driving innovation through proof-of-concepts, evaluating emerging technologies, influencing engineering best practices, and fostering collaboration across multiple scrum teams. The Lead Engineer will be expected to act as a technology thought leader, enabling high-quality delivery while helping shape the future direction of lending products and services.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the design, architecture, and delivery of complex, large-scale technology solutions supporting commercial lending products and services.
• Drive strategic technology initiatives with broad organizational impact, ensuring alignment with business objectives and engineering standards.
• Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain high-quality software solutions while remaining actively engaged in technical implementation.
• Evaluate complex technical challenges and make architecture and design decisions that balance scalability, security, reliability, performance, and cost.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices, technical standards, and solution patterns across teams.
• Partner with product managers, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to define roadmaps, prioritize features, and execute on delivery commitments.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and day-to-day guidance of development teams.
• Lead agile planning activities, including Big Room Planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and feature prioritization.
• Collaborate with internal and external technology experts to solve complex technical problems and drive innovation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, lead proof-of-concepts, and champion modern engineering practices to improve delivery velocity and product quality.
• Act as a technical thought leader, influencing architecture decisions and helping shape the future direction of Retail Services technology.

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
• 4 + years of J2EE development experience
• 4 + years of Microservices experience with RestAPIs
• 4+ years of experience delivering complex enterprise-wide information technology solution.

Desired Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience designing and implementing distributed systems and event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar streaming technologies.
• Strong experience developing and supporting cloud-native applications deployed on Kubernetes-based platforms such as AKS, OpenShift (OCP), Azure, or other container orchestration environments.
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring platforms including Elastic, Kibana, Grafana, AppDynamics, Splunk, BigPanda, and Kafka monitoring tools.
• Proven experience designing and developing solutions using middleware messaging and event-streaming platforms, including Kafka.
• Experience containerizing applications using Docker and managing deployments through Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and CI/CD practices, including GitHub, Jenkins, Git, Maven, Gradle, automated testing, and release management processes.
• Experience leveraging Generative AI technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs), embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Codex), and agentic AI solutions to improve productivity and business outcomes.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum environments, participating in sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and program increment planning activities.
• Knowledge of modern database technologies, including MongoDB, relational databases, and NoSQL platforms.
• Strong verbal, written, and stakeholder communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business decisions across teams.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• Lead teams while partnering with global stakeholders across multiple time zones
• Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Proficiency in using GitHub Actions and other version control systems is essential for managing code and deployments
• Strong communication and collaboration skills are essential for working with developers, operations teams, and other stakeholders

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or visa transfer
• Relocation assistance is not available
• Ability to work onsite at listed location

Posting End Date:

*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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