Senior Software Engineer - Java Backend

About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking for a Java backend developer with leadership experience who enjoys and thrives on solving complex problems through innovation while influencing change at scale in a diverse environment. You will technically lead a focused team of Automation Engineers introducing and advancing enterprise Automation practice through code across several hundred applications within EFT.

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: Software Development: Java/ Python, SQL, bash or combination of other object oriented and scripting language(s)

Automation: Ansible, Terraform, Amelia

Java Full Stack – JavaScript, Angular/React JS, SpringBoot, NodeJS, XML, HTML

Database: Oracle, SQL, MongoDB , Basic Data Modeling, PL/SQL

OS and Platform: Azure, SQLMI, GCP, PCF, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Windows

CI/CD: EPL/EPLX, Harness , Jenkins/GitHub Actions, SonarQube, Checkmarks, Blackduck, ServiceNOW AVR, Artifactory

Observability and AIOPS: Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic, Kibana, AppDynamics, Splunk

Track record of creating innovative and complex automation solutions, a combination of tooling and code.

AI/ML, GenAI: Tachyon, NotebookLM, Microsoft co-pilot, GitHub co-pilot, LLM Models.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Experience presenting to senior leadership.

Experience leading cross team initiatives.

Hands on ability in designing and architecting complex end-to-end automation solutions requiring custom code and data integration patterns.

4+ years of building automation solutions through tooling and code

4+ years of Data Modeling and Data Integration Patterns

4+ years of experience with logging, monitoring, and event detection on cloud or distributed platforms.

4+ years of experience with one or more Technology Platforms (Cloud, o/s, etc.): Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Azure, GCP, Linux, Windows.

Ability to work in a hybrid office environment.

Flexible work timings and willing to work on shifts 16x7.

Ability to work outside of regular business hours, as needed.

Job Expectations: Instantiate Site Reliability Engineering practice at Wells Fargo EFT igniting the practice, principles, and culture leading by example. Assist in training skilled peer engineers by growing the practice within EFT and partnering with peer platform embedded SRE teams.

Onboard critical customer journeys and applications to Site Reliability Engineering working within EFT and Lines of Business to assess the availability of critical business flows, identify service level objectives and indicators, instrument applications for observability, onboard to CI/CD pipeline taking advantage of continuous testing, introduce continuous inspection, continuous improvement, and conduct destructive testing to reach 99.99% availability for the firms critical products and services leading to higher customer satisfaction and customer experience.

Introducing enterprise capabilities, tools, and innovation improving availability in a multi-cloud ecosystem by evolving observability, monitoring, logging, CI/CD integration, continuous testing (performance, smoke, regression, functional, chaos) introduce continuous improvement, standardization/automation, capabilities to conduct destructive and resiliency testing.

Evolve AIOPS, ChatOps, NoOps introducing self-healing and autonomic capabilities solving complex operational and systemic issues with precision including building and training models, automating cognitive processes, leveraging Robotic Process Automation, Unified Communication, and AI/ML to improve availability of products we provide to customers.

Automate key SRE metrics and IT Service Operations processes including customer impact, % availability of critical business flows, SLO/SLI adherence, error budget, automated incident process for IT Service Operations through data integrating with unified communications, alerting/notification systems, and evolving ChatOps to reduce time to recovery.

Share support responsibilities for critical applications and customer journeys on boarded to SRE including remediation of issues through Agile, conduct blameless postmortems, root cause analysis and introduce continuous improvement solving problems once and for all with the goal of no repeats.

Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering automation solutions that are long-term, medium to large scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking.

Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical automation engineering solutions.

Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant automation solutions.

Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership, in addition to mentoring the team

 

Posting End Date:  

19 Jul 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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