Senior Software Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build core automation and platform capabilities that advances software defined network engineering. This role focuses on designing and developing scalable systems and tools that streamline network engineering workflows while enabling data‑driven automation and enhanced observability across critical network and application environments.

In this role, you will:

• Participate in low to moderately complex initiatives and projects associated with the technology domain, including installation, upgrades, and deployment efforts.

• Identify opportunities for service quality and availability improvements within the technology domain environment.

• Design, code, test, debug, and document for low to moderately complex projects and programs associated with technology domain, including upgrades and deployments.

• Review and analyze technical assignments or challenges that are related to low to medium risk deliverables and that require research, evaluation, and selection of alternative technology domains.

• Exercise some independent judgment while also developing understanding of given technology domain in reference to security and compliance requirements.

• Provide information to technology colleagues, internal partners, and stakeholders.

• Work on the design and development of scalable automation platforms that enhance network engineering workflows and operational efficiency.

• Build reliable data‑driven services and tooling that support automation, observability, and analytics across network and application environments.

• Collaborate with cross‑functional engineering teams to define technical standards, integrate systems, and advance automation capabilities.

• Drive technical excellence through architecture guidance, code quality, and best‑practice engineering to ensure resilient and maintainable solutions.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of work experience, training, military experience, or education

• 4+ years of experience building scalable, production grade systems using modern programming languages and frameworks such as Python, .NET, JavaScript, React, APIs, SQL, and NoSQL technologies

• 2+ years of experience with Ansible based network or systems automation

• Experience designing and deploying RESTful services, backend automation services, APIs, or platform components supporting large scale engineering or operational environments

• Experience with event driven or distributed systems, including technologies such as Kafka, ETL pipelines, or microservices

• Strong understanding of software and systems engineering fundamentals, including API architectures, distributed systems, concurrency, and modern service frameworks

• Effective communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work across engineering, infrastructure, operations, and other cross functional teams

• Understanding of secure software development practices, including secure coding, static analysis, and application security fundamentals.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Ansible Automation Platform or Ansible Tower

• Familiarity with container platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift

• Experience with data engineering, including data ingestion, transformation, data feeds, and analysis within infrastructure or operational environments

• Experience with observability and telemetry technologies such as Prometheus, Open Telemetry, time series metrics, synthetic monitoring, capacity analytics, or health analytics

• Knowledge of Agile development practices and experience working within product based engineering teams

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture patterns across application, service, middleware, and data layers

• 1+years of practical experience building AI/ML‑powered capabilities, including data preparation, model development, optimization, and deployment into production workflows.

Job Expectations:

• Drive AI driven development and solutioning across the group

• Define and enforce engineering standards covering design, reliability, observability, security, and performance

• Make high‑impact technical decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and provide direction for ambiguous or challenging problems

• Collaborate across teams to align technical approaches and ensure smooth delivery of cross‑team projects

• Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, tooling, automation, and operational readiness

• Identify and mitigate technical risks early; ensure long‑term maintainability and scalability

• Regular commit code and develop solutions and promote code hygiene and best practices.

• Lead complex initiatives that span multiple systems, services, and data flows, ensuring architectural consistency

• This position is not eligible for telecommuting

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule

• This position is not eligible for…