
Lead Software Engineer – AI Gateway, Agentic AI
Wells Fargo
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Charlotte • California • North Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $119,000 - $224,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
- Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
- Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
- Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
- Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
- Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
- Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor
Requirements
- 5+ 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 experience in GenAI engineering
- 1+ years of experience with LLM API exposure, including AI Gateway, OAuth2/mTLS, rate limits/quotas, OpenAPI/SDKs, SLAs, versioning/deprecation, and OpenAI-compatible API design (Responses, Interactions, chat/generate, search, ingest, embeddings)
- 1+ years of experience with AI gateways such as KONG, Portkey, Apigee, SSE/streaming operations, quota/rate-limit configuration, and capacity and change-window planning
- 1+ years of experience with SDKs and frameworks, including Gen AI Client, Agent Weaver Kit/SDK, LangGraph/ADK integration, trace/eval hooks, and registry updates
- 1+ years of experience building and supporting MCP servers, tool adapters, and agent workflows, including agent identity/permissions and governance metadata
- 1+ years of experience with telemetry and evaluations, including trace propagation, platform strategy, SLO dashboards, alerting, and retention/export workflows
- 1+ years of experience with AuthN/Z, including OAuth2 (client and user context), mTLS, token binding, eliminating key sharing, and enforcing per-user access via gateway
- 5+ years of experience building modern web UI for developer/ops workflows, including dashboards, wizards, and prompt/eval tooling with strong testing and accessibility practices
- 2+ years of experience in GenAI engineering, including prompt engineering and evaluation harnesses, understanding of LLMs/SLMs, common tuning methods, and per-model performance considerations
- 5+ years of experience with Python programming
- Experience with Java programming
- Experience with devin/GitHub Copilot for productivity
Benefits
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
Software EngineeringGenAI engineeringLLM API exposureAI GatewayOAuth2mTLSOpenAPIPython programmingJava programmingtelemetry and evaluations
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationmentoringproblem-solvingcommunication