Senior Software Engineer

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on our check modernization initiative. This effort will modernize and automate check processing capabilities. Check processing will continue to be a valuable product for our small business and corporate customers for the foreseeable future despite the existence and adoption of non-check payment options. A full stack engineering is desired to fill this role.
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:

• 4+ years of application development and implementation experience
• 4+ years Java/J2EE Web Application Development, Spring core, Web Services (REST, SOAP etc.), microservices development.
• 1+ years previous experience working in check processing and/or payments environment
• 2+ years of vendor developed software (COTS)
• 2+ years of GitHub experience
• 2 + years of multi-threading experience
• 1+ year of Microsoft SQL Server experience
• 1+ year of Oracle experience
• 1+ year of JMS (Java Message Service) experience
• 1+ year of MQ Series Messaging experience
• 3+ years of JavaScript development experience or equivalent
• 2+ years of WebSphere experience
• 2+ years of C#.NET experience
• 2 + years of experience with Eclipse IDE or equivalent
• 2+ years Tomcat Deployment and configurations
• 2+ years Gradle deployment and configuration
• 1+ years Kafka
• 2+ years GenAI experience
• 2+ years of Microservice development experience
• Certification in Google/Azure Cloud, AWS Associate level / Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) developer, Container and Kubernetes experience.
• Experience in Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) & Domain Driven Development (DDD).
• Hands on Experience in using BDD testing frameworks (Cucumber, karate etc)
• Strong in OOAD, Multi-threaded application development, design and implementation of web applications, Design Patterns
• Experience in Consumer Banking or any complex middleware applications
• API - driven development - Experience working with remote data via SOAP, REST and JSON.
• Experience with Applications Performance Tuning, Scaling, Security, Resiliency Best Practices
• Hands on experience in delivering high value projects in Agile (SCRUM) methodology preferably using JIRA tool.
• Previous experience working at a financial institution

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work additional hours as needed
• Ability to support on call beyond normal working hours
• Ability to work in a 24/7 environment, including weekends and holidays (rotational) for L3 support
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time

Posting End Date:
1 Mar 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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