About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for complex, business-critical streaming and real-time data platforms. This role is responsible for shaping architecture, leading delivery, and ensuring the operational stability of high-throughput, low-latency streaming systems built using Java, Apache Flink, and event-driven architectures. The ideal candidate has in-depth software engineering experience, extensive expertise in stream processing, and a strong background delivering enterprise-scale solutions in regulated environments.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex, domain-critical initiatives involving real-time data processing, streaming flows, and event-driven architectures

• Architect, design, develop, test, and implement high-performance Java-based streaming applications and platforms using Apache Flink and related technologies

• Provide technical ownership for streaming pipelines, stateful processing, fault tolerance, and exactly-once or at-least-once delivery semantics

• Ensure systems are highly observable, monitored, resilient, and operationally efficient, with a strong focus on risk reduction and platform stability

• Identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization, improve performance, simplify architectures, and reduce infrastructure and operational costs

• Resolve highly complex coding, testing, and escalated platform issues, serving as the senior technical escalation point

• Lead teams to ensure compliance, risk management, and control requirements are met for supported platforms

• Partner closely with production support, platform engineering, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, supportable solutions

• Mentor and coach senior and mid-level software engineers, raising the overall technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and best practices

• Collaborate with and influence senior engineers, architects, managers, and business stakeholders to align technology solutions with business objectives

• Drive adoption of modern streaming patterns, engineering standards, and industry best practices

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, education, or military experience

• 5+ years of experience with Java building large-scale, distributed systems

• 5+ years of experience with Apache Flink or equivalent stream-processing frameworks

• 5+ years of experience designing and supporting real-time streaming flows, event-driven architectures, and stateful stream processing

• 5+ years of experience leading and delivering complex, enterprise-scale platforms

• 5+ years of experience with software engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, performance tuning, and distributed systems design

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building or supporting high-throughput, low-latency streaming platforms in regulated environments

• Strong understanding of event streaming ecosystems and messaging systems

• Experience with SQL and large-scale data analysis

• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments and scripting (Shell, Python)

• Experience designing APIs (REST or event-based interfaces)

• Cloud experience and familiarity with modern DevOps and CI/CD practices

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Job Expectations:

• Serve as a technical authority and leader for streaming and real-time platforms

• Provide guidance during production incidents and critical escalations

• Drive engineering excellence, platform stability, and continuous improvement

• Collaborate effectively across geographically distributed teams

Posting Location:

• 300 S Brevard, Charlotte, NC 28202

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

$159,000.00 - $254,000.00

Posting End Date:

30 Apr 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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