Software Engineer

Posted:
5/19/2026, 1:08:11 AM

Location(s):
Iowa, United States ⋅ Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Experience Level(s):
Junior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineer to support the Home Lending Technology team within Consumer Technology (CT). The Home Lending Technology organization is responsible for developing and maintaining innovative solutions that streamline the home lending process. This team focuses on the development and support of origination and fulfillment platforms for Wells Fargo Home Lending, with an emphasis on enhancing user experience, improving operational efficiency, reducing risk, and delivering seamless and efficient home loan experience for both customers and internal partners.

In this role, you will design, build, test, and support UI as well as Java‑based backend services, REST APIs, and microservices used across Home Lending servicing platforms. You will have opportunity to work on an application with complex integration, cloud native Microservices, including Agentic AI based workflow. You will strengthen core development skills in Java, Spring Boot, and database technologies, apply analytical thinking to solve technical problems, and gain experience working across both legacy and modern application stacks. You will have opportunities to learn event‑driven architecture concepts (Kafka/PubSub), contribute to UI enhancements using Angular or React, and participate in cloud‑aligned development as applications evolve within Consumer Lending’s technology ecosystem. 

This role is ideal for developers with strong curiosity, a willingness to challenge themselves to solve real business/technical problems, and a passion for building real production‑grade solutions that support critical Home Lending workflows.


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

  • Present recommendations for resolving issues or may escalate issues as needed to meet established service level agreements

  • 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


Required Qualifications:

  • 2+ 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 Java development experience

  • 2+ years of Java unit test case development experience

  • 2+ years of JavaScript Frameworks experience such as with Angular or React JS


Desired Qualifications:

  • 1+ years of cloud native micro service application development experience

  • 1+ years of experience with developing automated functional testing using BDD

  • Spring boot application development experience

  • Agile Development methodologies

  • Tomcat application server experience

  • Oracle database experience

  • SQL experience

  • Hibernate experience

  • MongoDB or related NoSQL database experience

  • Kafka or related Data Streaming technology experience (Kafka, PubSub)

  • Cloud certification from any cloud providers

  • Experience with Domain Driven Design principles

  • Experience with application non-functional requirements including Monitoring (APM tools), Logging (Splunk), and Distributed tracing. Exposure to observability or monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, Grafana, AppDynamics)

  • Experience in build and deploy tools such as Jenkins. Awareness of CI/CD processes in a large application environment

  • Experience using AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) or developing small AI prototypes such as chatbots, LLM prompts, or automated scripts

  • Ability to communicate clearly, collaborate within a team, and work in a fast‑paced learning environment

  • Knowledge and understanding of home mortgage origination process: applications, processing, and closing


Job Expectations:

  • This position is required to work from the designated posted office location and must be able to meet all expectations of the current hybrid work schedule, including regular in‑office attendance as defined by the team and program requirements

  • Participation in an on-call rotation approximately once every six weeks to support production systems

  • Relocation assistance is not provided for this role

  • This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Posting End Date: 

19 May 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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Wells Fargo

Website: https://www.wellsfargo.com/

Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1852

IPO Status: Public

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