Lead Software Engineer P4

Bengaluru, IndiaSenior5+ years

About This Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and operate enterprise-scale, cloud-native applications. This role is a senior hands-on individual contributor responsible for delivering complex, high-impact solutions while ensuring production stability, performance, and security. You will collaborate with U.S.-based teams in a global delivery model and drive engineering excellence across people, processes, and technology.

In this role, you will:

Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

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

Desired Qualifications:

Lead architecture, design, and development using Node.js, React, and Azure
Design and build enterprise-grade APIs (REST/event-driven) with proper governance
Define API standards including versioning, documentation, and lifecycle management
Deliver containerized applications using OpenShift / Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) integrated with enterprise databases
Implement RBAC and SSO (SAML, OAuth, OIDC)
Own end-to-end delivery including build, deploy, and production support
Implement APM, observability, logging, and tracing
Apply SDLC, CI/CD, testing, and code review best practices
Ensure security, scalability, resiliency, and performance
Lead NPI activities and ensure production readiness
Collaborate across Product, Architecture, Infra, and Security
Mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement.
8+ years software engineering experience
Strong Node.js, React, Azure expertise
Experience designing and building APIs (REST, event-driven, secure, versioned)
Experience with containerized microservices (OpenShift / AKS)
Database integration (SQL/NoSQL)
SSO (SAML, OAuth, OIDC) and RBAC experience
APM tools (App Insights, Dynatrace, Splunk, New Relic)
Secure, scalable, production systems experience
Global team collaboration experience
DevOps, CI/CD expertise.

Job Expectations:

Financial services experience
IAM and access governance familiarity
Kubernetes and IaC experience
API gateway / service mesh exposure
Event-driven architecture knowledge
NPI lifecycle experience
SRE and performance tuning exposure.
Lead-level IC owning complex deliverables
Independent decision-making
Drive engineering excellence and improvements
Influence across teams without authority
Balance customer, risk, performance, and cost

Posting End Date:

23 Jun 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.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

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