Software Engineering Manager – Electronic Trading, Java, AI

Overview

Software Engineering Manager role leading an established electronic trading engineering team building modern Java and AI capabilities, with responsibility for technical strategy, delivery, and people leadership.

What you'll do

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of individual contributor engineers and less experienced managers building high quality capabilities with modern technology.
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture and meet non-functional requirements with each release.
• Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies and enable application migration paths to target architecture, including 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 managing the overall software development cycle and security standards.
• Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and teams to make decisions and remove impediments, obstacles, and friction, encouraging a culture of constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement.
• 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, and identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk.
• Collaborate and consult with 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 advocating 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 design and deliver innovative solutions for the supported product areas.
• Lead the transformation of an established engineering team, elevating capabilities, embedding modern ways of working, and driving a high-performance, outcomes-focused culture.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and product leaders to align with evolving business direction, influence technology priorities, and represent engineering in planning and decision-making.
• Develop and manage engineering talent and leaders, ensuring delivery of high-quality, modern, secure, and scalable solutions that adhere to architectural standards and non-functional requirements.
• Guide technical strategy and modernization efforts with architects and senior engineers to drive cloud readiness, application modernization, data strategy, and alignment to next-generation architecture.
• Oversee engineering execution and operational excellence, including code quality, peer reviews, SDLC governance, risk management, security standards, roadblock escalation, and continuous process improvement.
• Drive agile and DevOps practices, acting as an escalation partner for teams, removing impediments, fostering experimentation, and enabling predictable delivery across moderate- to high-risk initiatives.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 2+ years of Leadership experience.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of experience in software development and 2+ years in engineering leadership or people management.
• Strong hands-on background with Java/J2EE, Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, MVC, ORM/JPA/Hibernate), messaging systems (Kafka/JMS), and workflow tools.
• Proven experience building cloud-native applications using Java or similar technologies.
• Practical expertise in AI and Generative AI, with demonstrated use of AI/GenAI tools to enhance productivity or optimize engineering workflows.
• Experience leading and collaborating with global delivery teams in a matrixed environment.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or technical discipline (e.g., CS, Engineering, Math, Statistics, Economics).
• Strong business partnering, communication, innovation mindset, and ability to challenge status quo while staying current with emerging technologies.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Posting end date: 11 Nov 2026.