Full-Time
Lead AI Software Engineer
Wells Fargo
10,001+ employees
Nationwide banking and financial services
No salary listed
London, UK
Hybrid
Hybrid work schedule required; relocation assistance is not available.
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- Specialty software engineering experience demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, education, or a combination of these.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience building services with FastMCP, FastAPI, or Flask.
- Experience developing and integrating REST APIs, asynchronous services, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience integrating with AI systems, large language model systems, agent platforms, or AI APIs.
- Experience with React and TypeScript for frontend application development.
- Experience with authentication, authorization, and access-control patterns, including single sign-on, OAuth 2.0, API keys, token-based access, role-based access control, and scopes.
- Experience building or integrating with Model Context Protocol servers and understanding the Model Context Protocol, including tool registration, schemas, message flows, clients, servers, and lifecycle patterns.
- Experience developing agent-driven workflows with LangChain, Google ADK, or similar orchestration frameworks.
- Experience with frontend fundamentals including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, browser rendering, Document Object Model APIs, and performance tuning.
- Experience with automated testing using Playwright, performance testing, code reviews, and continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
- Experience building secure, scalable, and maintainable applications aligned with enterprise platform standards.
- Design, build, and maintain AI-enabled applications using React, TypeScript, Python, and modern API frameworks.
- Develop frontend applications aligned with enterprise user-interface standards and reusable component patterns.
- Build and maintain Python backend services, APIs, Model Context Protocol services, and integration layers using FastMCP, FastAPI, and Flask.
- Design, implement, and integrate with Model Context Protocol servers and clients to enable secure context sharing between models, tools, applications, and agent runtimes.
- Develop and support agentic workflows that execute complex, multistep tasks using agent frameworks such as LangChain Deep Agents and Google ADK.
- Build skill-based and modular agents with reusable, composable, and versioned skills.
- Build reusable components, services, tool schemas, and integration patterns for enterprise AI applications.
- Integrate logging, tracing, and observability frameworks, including Arize- and Splunk-compatible logging and agent observability tooling.
- Prepare applications and services for deployment on enterprise container platforms such as OpenShift and Kubernetes.
- Deliver end-to-end AI application features using Model Context Protocol services and agent orchestration layers.
- Own and contribute to Model Context Protocol service implementations, including tool schema design, tool registration, API integration, authorization enforcement, and deployment readiness.
- Build and maintain Model Context Protocol-compatible tools, skills, APIs, and user-interface components for AI applications and agent runtimes.
- Integrate AI-powered user interfaces with backend APIs, Model Context Protocol servers, retrieval-augmented generation systems, and agent workflows.
- Implement role-based access-control policies governing which users, agents, clients, and applications can invoke specific tools or services.
- Develop agent workflows that support complex user objectives through Model Context Protocol and skill orchestration.
- Align solutions with enterprise platform standards, including application scaffolding, security, observability, logging, testing, and deployment practices.
- Ensure frontend applications are performant, accessible, maintainable, and aligned with reusable design patterns.
- Ensure backend and AI services are scalable, observable, secure, and ready for deployment on OpenShift or Kubernetes-based environments.
- Write and maintain technical documentation, integration guides, API specifications, and operational runbooks.
- Contribute to engineering best practices through code reviews, automated testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery, monitoring, and production-support readiness.
- Collaborate with AI developers, platform engineers, product teams, and architecture partners to deliver robust and scalable AI solutions.
- Experience building Model Context Protocol servers using FastMCP or similar Python-based Model Context Protocol frameworks.
- Experience designing Model Context Protocol-compatible tools, reusable skills, and modular agent capabilities.
- Familiarity with tool schema design and structured-output validation using Pydantic, JSON Schema, or Zod.
- Experience with long-running autonomous agents supporting retries, state persistence, error recovery, graceful termination, and multistep workflow execution.
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation systems, vector search, embeddings, or enterprise knowledge-retrieval patterns.
- Experience with agent observability and tracing tools such as LangSmith, OpenTelemetry, and Arize.
- Exposure to Splunk or enterprise observability frameworks.
- Experience with Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, or similar containerization and deployment platforms.
- Experience with Copilot Studio, Microsoft Teams user-interface integration, or conversational application platforms.
- Knowledge of prompt engineering, skill engineering, and knowledge graphs such as llm_wiki and OKF.
- Familiarity with secure enterprise software delivery, platform governance, and reusable engineering standards.
Wells Fargo provides banking, investment, and payment services to individuals, businesses, and institutions. Its products include checking and savings accounts, loans, credit cards, wealth management, and payments, accessible through branches, online and mobile platforms, and full payment rails. The company combines a wide national footprint with a long history and a business model that integrates banking, investment, and payments, supported by a large network of branches and ATMs. Its goal is to help customers manage money, grow wealth, and move funds safely and reliably.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
1851
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- 2Q26 revenue rose 9% to $22.6 billion, led by noninterest income.
- 2Q26 wealth revenue grew 13% as advisory fees rose with markets.
- March 2026 Fed ended its final fake-accounts enforcement action.
What critics are saying
- July 2026 headcount fell to 197,000 after 24 straight quarterly declines.
- Legacy misconduct still drives active class actions through 2026.
- Another controls failure would resurrect federal oversight and kill the turnaround.
What makes Wells Fargo unique
- March 2026 Fargo passed 1 billion interactions and 33 million mobile users.
- 2Q26 wealth assets reached $2.69 trillion after a five-year revamp.
- 2026 adviser recruiting now attracts independent advisers using Wells Fargo's platform.
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