Wells Fargo

Lead Specialty Software Engineer - AI Tooling & Enablement

Wells Fargo$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in Specialty Software Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of AI Engineering experience
  • Proficiency with AI tools like Devin.AI, Claude Code, Cursor.AI, or GitHub Copilot
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and SDLC processes
  • Experience building or supporting GenAI applications
  • Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks and orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain)
  • Strong software engineering fluency in Python, Scala, Java, or TypeScript
  • Experience in cloud-based AI services (GCP, AWS, Azure)

Responsibilities

  • Drive the implementation and use of AI tools across teams
  • Provide guidance on standards and best practices for deployment
  • Lead complex developer platform initiatives
  • Create automation tools to improve developer experience
  • Mentor junior engineers on tool usage and best practices
  • Influence teams to embrace innovative tools and methodologies
  • Develop and manage an adoption metrics dashboard for leadership

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional development and mentoring
  • Engagement in innovative practices through workshops and hackathons
  • Impactful role fostering technical community within the organization
  • Visible influence on engineering productivity and tool adoption
  • Dynamic work environment promoting hands-on collaboration
Full Job Description

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Specialty Software Engineer to support the onboarding, adoption, and enablement of AI tools and software development lifecycle (SDLC) technologies across the Chief Data Office (CDO). This role will focus on accelerating engineering productivity, fostering technical communities, and promoting innovative practices through events such as hackathons and internal forums.

In this role, you will:

  • Drive onboarding, adoption, and effective usage of AI tools and SDLC tooling across engineering teams
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance on tooling standards, best practices, and integration patterns
  • Lead complex initiatives related to developer platforms, AI tooling, and engineering productivity
  • Design, develop, test, and implement tools, utilities, and automation that enhance developer experience and operational efficiency
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide guidance on tool usage and engineering best practices
  • Influence team members and stakeholders to adopt new tools and capabilities
  • Onboarding repos run repos through the qualifying criteria, create environment blueprints, generate codebase wikis, run proof-of-concept PRs
  • Building reusable assets author org-wide and repo-specific playbooks, knowledge notes, and scheduled automations
  • Running the champions program train and support per-team tools champions, run 30-min team onboarding workshops, hold office hours
  • Driving adoption identify high-value use cases per team, pair with developers, lower the barrier to starting sessions (Teams/GitHub entry points)
  • Measuring & reporting own the adoption metrics dashboard (active repos, unique users, PRs/week, merge rate), report ROI to leadership
  • Governance & best practices define standards for how a tool is used safely (review requirements, security guardrails, what tasks are/aren't appropriate)
  • Feedback loop surface platform gaps/friction back to the vendor and internal infra teams


Required Qualifications:

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

  • 5+ years of AI Engineering experience

  • Hands-on experience using one or more of the following tools: Devin.AI, Claude Code, Cursor.AI, or Github Copilot
  • Hands-on experience with AI software development tools, CI/CD pipelines, and SDLC processes
  • Hands-on experience building or supporting GenAI applications, including prompt design and RAG concepts
  • Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks or orchestration tools (LangChain or similar)
  • Experience integrating applications with APIs, data platforms, or enterprise systems
  • Understanding of cloud-based AI services (GCP Vertex AI, AWS, or Azure equivalents)
  • Experience supporting or implementing developer tooling, platforms, or engineering enablement capabilities
  • Strong general software engineering 94 fluency across your org's main stacks (Python/FastAPI, Scala/Spark, Java/Spring, TypeScript/React) so they can validate Devin's output across teams
  • CI/CD & DevOps 94 GitHub Actions/Enterprise, build/test pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes; needed to wire repos for reliable Devin sessions
  • Environment configuration 94 writing environment blueprints (dependency setup, build/test/lint commands), managing secrets, package registries (Artifactory)
  • Testing & verification 94 designing how task completion is measured (test coverage, automated checks) so Devin work is verifiable
  • Git & code review at scale 94 branch strategy, PR review, merge-conflict resolution


Desired Qualifications:

  • Prompt & playbook engineering 94 building reusable macros/playbooks, scoping tasks well for agents
  • Understanding agent capabilities & limits 94 knowing what tools do does well vs. poorly
  • Knowledge/context management 94 capturing coding conventions, architecture, gotchas as persistent knowledge notes
  • Developer advocacy / enablement 94 running workshops, demos, office hours; this is a people-facing adoption role, not just engineering
  • Technical writing & documentation
  • Metrics & ROI storytelling 94 tracking adoption, PR merge rates, time saved, and reporting to leadership
  • Stakeholder management & change management 94 driving behavior change across teams
  • Security & compliance awareness 94 (PII handling, approval gates, audit)
  • Experience in financial services or other regulated industries

Job Expectations:

  • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
  • Ability to work on-site in one of the listed locations in a hybrid model. There is no option for fully remote work.

Posting End Date:

19 Jun 2026

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

About Wells Fargo

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