About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Database Technologies Automation organization. This role is a key contributor to building and evolving a suite of internal, API driven automation services that enable secure, scalable, and reliable database provisioning and lifecycle management across the enterprise.

The Database Technologies Automation team designs and operates shared platforms, APIs, and tooling that power self-service database capabilities, integrate with bank wide automation workflows, and improve consistency, stability, and speed of delivery across all supported database platforms. This role is ideal for engineers with a strong backend or platform engineering background who enjoy building robust automation and internal services.

The successful candidate will bring modern software engineering practices, a strong focus on test automation and CI/CD, and experience partnering with infrastructure, SRE, and database platform teams. While the team continues to mature its agile practices, it actively leverages automated pipelines and shared standards to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable microservices.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the design and delivery of complex software solutions that support database automation and self-service capabilities across the enterprise
• Act as a key contributor in establishing and evolving engineering standards and best practices for building scalable, reliable, and secure internal platforms and APIs
• Design, develop, test, debug, and document backend services, automation tooling, and supporting frameworks
• Analyze and evaluate complex technical challenges across a diverse enterprise environment, balancing scalability, reliability, security, and operational requirements
• Provide hands on technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring of engineers within the team
• Collaborate closely with database platform subject matter experts, infrastructure teams, SREs, and other engineering partners to translate operational needs into reusable automation and services
• Influence technical direction and implementation decisions to ensure solutions meet long term strategic and operational goals

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 3+ years of strong experience developing production grade software using Python
• 2+ years of experience building and maintaining API based services using frameworks such as Flask, FastAPI, or Django
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience writing automated unit and integration tests using tools such as pytest, with a strong focus on maintainable, high coverage testing
• 2+ years of experience applying object-oriented design principles, including use of classes, inheritance, and code reuse
• 2+ years of experience using Git in a collaborative development environment, including pull requests and peer code reviews
• 2+ years of hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes using tools such as Jenkins and Jira or equivalent platforms

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working in Agile delivery teams using Scrum or Kanban
• Experience developing internal tools or services that interact with or support database platforms
• Experience with SQLAlchemy or similar ORM frameworks
• Experience working with PL/SQL or other database resident logic‑resident logic
• Familiarity with infrastructure or configuration automation tools such as Ansible
• Experience with modern front‑end frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue) for internal tools or administrative interfaces
• Experience partnering with infrastructure, SRE, or operations teams in an enterprise environment

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Work Schedule: 3 days in office / 2 days remote; schedule is subject to change based on business needs
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Posting End Date: 

9 Feb 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.

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