Wells Fargo

Software Engineering Manager

Wells Fargo$119K — $206K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in Software Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 2+ years in a leadership role
  • 3+ years of Java experience
  • 3+ years with Spring Ecosystem (Spring Boot, Hibernate)
  • 2+ years of Messaging expertise (e.g., Kafka)
  • 2+ years developing distributed platforms
  • 2+ years with container orchestration platforms (e.g., OpenShift, AWS)

Responsibilities

  • Manage and mentor a team of engineers with varying complexity
  • Ensure compliance with Banking Platform Architecture and non-functional requirements
  • Collaborate with architects to drive application modernizations and migration
  • Represent the product in cross-team planning and collaboration efforts
  • Identify and resolve technology roadblocks and manage software development lifecycle
  • Support scrum masters in minimizing impediments and promote a culture of continuous improvement
  • Conduct peer reviews and guide technical direction alongside developers

Benefits

  • Health benefits
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Paid time off
  • Disability benefits
  • Life insurance and critical illness insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Critical caregiving leave
  • Discounts and savings programs
  • Commuter benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Scholarships for dependent children
  • Adoption reimbursement
Full Job Description
About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering manager in technology as part of the Wealth & Investment Management Technology team. This role sits in the Banking, Lending, and Trust Technology area.  This role is a senior, hands-on leader responsible for designing, evolving, and operationalizing products in close partnership with the Architecture & Product, and engineering teams.

In this role, you will:

  • Manage, coach, and develop a team of individual contributor engineer roles with low to moderate complexity and less experienced managers who are responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
  • Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
  • Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture to enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example, cloud readiness, application modernization and data strategy
  • Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
  • Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
  • Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to make decisions and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement culture
  • Build engineering skills side-by-side in the codebase, conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment to technical direction, and guide design, as needed
  • Interpret, develop, and ensure security, stability, and scalability within functions of technology with low to moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
  • Collaborate and consult with the Product Managers/Product Owners to drive user satisfaction, influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmap, promote innovative and intelligent solutions, generate corporate value and articulate technical strategy while being a solid advocate of agile and DevOps practices
  • Interact directly with third party vendors and technology service providers
  • Manage allocation of people and financial resources for technology engineering including career development and performance management for engineers and managers on the team
  • Hire, mentor and guide talent development of direct reports to build the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for the supported product areas/products


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
  • 2+ years of Leadership experience
  • 3+ years of Java experience

  • 3+ years of Spring Eco System experience such as Spring boot, Hibernate etc.

  • 2+ years of Messaging experience such as Kafka, JMS etc.

  • 2+ years of experience in building distributed platforms.

  • 2+ years of experience with container orchestration platforms, such as OpenShift Container Platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), AWS etc.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Expertise in building distributed platforms for risk and valuation

  • Experience in driving modernization efforts.

  • Proven experience building cloud‑native applications using Java or similar technologies.

  • Practical expertise in AI and Generative AI, with demonstrated use of AI/GenAI tools to enhance productivity or optimize engineering workflows.

  • Experience leading and collaborating with global delivery teams in a matrixed environment.

  • Banking/Lending/Brokerage & financial markets experience

  • Vendor management

  • Scrum/Agile experience  

Job Expectations:

  • This position offers a hybrid work schedule

  • This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

  • Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Locations:

  • 1525 W W T Harris Blvd. - Charlotte, North Carolina 28262
  • ​550 S 4th St. - MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota 55415

    Pay Range
     

    Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

    $119,000.00 - $206,000.00

    Benefits

    Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

    • Health benefits
    • 401(k) Plan
    • Paid time off
    • Disability benefits
    • Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
    • Parental leave
    • Critical caregiving leave
    • Discounts and savings
    • Commuter benefits
    • Tuition reimbursement
    • Scholarships for dependent children
    • Adoption reimbursement

    Posting End Date:

    9 Oct 2026

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

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