About this role : Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer

In this role, you will :

- Lead complex initiatives on selected domains
- Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk
- Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost
- Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature
- Lead team to ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
- Mentor less experienced software engineers
- Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers
- Lead team to achieve objectives
- Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively

Required Qualifications :

- 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications :

- Bachelor's/master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of qualified software engineering experience.
- Proven experience as a senior or lead engineer with technical ownership.

Job Expectations :

- Financial services, trading systems, or risk management platforms.
- Lead design and delivery of Java/Spring Boot along with good understanding of modern UI technologies based microservices supporting real-time pricing, risk, P&L;, and trade lifecycle workflows.
- Build and operate low-latency, highly resilient services using REST and event-driven architectures.
- Own code quality, testing strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and production readiness for supported platforms.
- Drive DevOps practices across Kubernetes/OpenShift,



Git Actions, Harness, Gradle, and Autosys.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production and performance issues in a real-time trading workplace.
- Partner closely with Front Office traders, Middle Office, Product, and Platform teams.
- Perform architectural reviews, influence technical direction, and ensure alignment to enterprise target-state architectures.
- Good understanding of AI
- Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor
- Develop robust backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and integrate with document, relational, and vector databases.
- Design and optimize MongoDB schemas, aggregations, indexing strategies, and performance at scale.
- Build APIs and microservices supporting AI-driven features such as intelligent search, workflow automation, and semantic enrichment.
- Implement concurrency control, caching, observability, and distributed tracing.
- Experience with event-driven messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka
- Experience with distributed caching technologies such as Redis and/or Apache Ignite
- Design and implement modular Angular frameworks following best practices such as feature modules, lazy loading, shared libraries, reusable components, and Nx workspace conventions.
- Build and integrate LLM-based features using Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, or enterprise-safe LLMs.
- Design RAG pipelines using vector search, embeddings,



MongoDB or other indexing/storage layers.
- Implement automated content generation, intelligent summarization, classification, or agent-based workflows.
- Collaborate with AI/ML, Product, and Architecture teams to explore and prototype new GenAI use cases.
- Establish a robust testing framework across backend, UI, and AI components.
- Implement test harnesses for LLM behavior, prompt regression testing, and fallback logic validations.
- Ensure observability for both traditional and GenAI services including latency, token usage, and model drift metrics.
- Drive root-cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives across the full stack.
- Mentor engineers across backend, UI, and AI domains with focus on sustainable engineering practices.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science teams to define and deliver business outcomes.
- Lead backlog prioritization, estimation, and sprint execution with a strong engineering discipline.
- Advocate for adoption of modern engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and platform alignment.

Posting End Date : 3 Jun 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 e

📌 Lead Specialty Software Engineer - Java, Angular & Genai (Hyderabad)
🏢 Wells Fargo
📍 Hyderabad