Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

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.