Software Engineering Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to provide leadership for an application delivery team. This Manager will lead a high-performing software engineering team and will be responsible for overseeing the development of software solutions and ensuring alignment with strategic business and product objectives. This role requires a combination of technical expertise, leadership skills, and product management capabilities.

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:

• 4+ 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

Desired Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience and 2+ years of Leadership experience
• Strong experience in

  software development frameworks

  , cloud-native architectures, and platform engineering.
• Proficiency in

  Java , Python,

  and experience with

  Spring Boot, .NET Core, or equivalent frameworks

  .
• Deep understanding of

  CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools

  .
• Hands-on experience with

  GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Backstage, or similar DevTools

  .
• Strong grasp of

  performance optimization, observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana), and developer workflow automation

  .
• Experience with

  developer portals, self-service platforms, and inner-source adoption

  .
• Knowledge of

  AI-powered developer tools, GitHub Copilot, or generative AI-based coding assistance

  .
• Exposure to

  multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and security best practices (OWASP, SAST, DAST)

  .

Job Expectations:

• Technical Leadership & Strategy:

• Define the

  vision, roadmap, and strategy

  for Engineering Frameworks, Utilities, and Developer Tools & Environments.
• Drive

  adoption of modern engineering frameworks

  and establish coding standards, best practices, and reusable components.
• Lead the

  design and implementation

  of scalable development tools that improve

  developer efficiency and experience

  .
• Oversee the migration and modernization of

  legacy frameworks and environments

  .

• Engineering Frameworks & Utilities:

• Develop and maintain

  core engineering frameworks

  for backend, frontend, and cloud-native development.
• Implement

  domain-driven design (DDD), event-driven architectures

  , and microservices patterns.
• Ensure

  performance, security, observability, and compliance

  in engineering frameworks.
• Drive automation in

  code generation, service scaffolding, and dependency management

  .

• Developer Tools & Environments:

• Lead the development of

  cloud-based IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, local dev environments, and code quality tools

  .
• Own the

  engineering productivity platform

  , including

  build acceleration, test automation, and debugging tools

  .
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to integrate

  DevSecOps

  practices into developer environments.
• Optimize

  inner-loop development workflows

  to reduce friction and enhance developer experience.

• Cross-Team Collaboration & Enablement:

• Partner with

  Product, Architecture, SRE, Security, and Developer Experience teams

  to drive engineering excellence.
• Advocate for

  engineering best practices

  ,

  tool adoption

  , and

  developer education initiatives

  .
• Work closely with engineering leadership to align

  platform investments with business priorities

  .

• People Leadership & Execution:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of

  high-performing engineers and technical leads

  .
• Foster a culture of

  innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement

  .
• Manage project execution, ensuring

  timely delivery and high-quality outcomes

  .

• Leadership & Collaboration:

• Proven track record of

  leading engineering teams

  and delivering platform-level solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to

  drive adoption of engineering frameworks and tools

  .
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a data-driven approach to

  measuring developer productivity