2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define architecture across multiple services and resolve cross-team technical bottlenecks.
- Lead architecture reviews and technical workshops with engineering, product, security, compliance, operations, and partner teams.
- Establish reusable APIs, service communication, event-driven integration, data access, observability, cloud infrastructure, and platform patterns.
- Set standards for REST APIs, gRPC APIs, service contracts, versioning, compatibility, and integration patterns using Java, Spring Boot, ODATA, and SQL.
- Design secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient systems for fleet management and mobility payments.
- Drive security-by-design, threat modeling, API security, authorization, PCI DSS considerations, data protection, and auditability.
- Define SLI, SLO, operational readiness, observability, chaos testing, resilience, and production-readiness practices.
- Create reusable CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code patterns using Helm, Argo, and Terraform.
- Set expectations for code quality and testing across unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, concurrency, and performance testing.
- Code selectively in foundational or high-risk components and validate architecture through prototypes and technical spikes.
- Lead resolution of complex incidents, corrective actions, reliability improvements, and cross-service defects.
- Build self-service tools, dashboards, and automation for engineering and operations teams.
- Shape cross-team roadmaps, identify dependencies and technical debt, and communicate technology investments in business terms.
- Mentor senior engineers and guide responsible adoption of emerging technologies and AI-enabled development tools.
- Maintain architecture documents, design records, reference implementations, runbooks, and operational-readiness documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 7–12 years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or systems.
- Deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, distributed systems, and complex problem solving.
- Experience designing internet-scale services with strong scalability, availability, security, reliability, and operability.
- Backend development expertise in Java or C# with frameworks such as Spring Boot, plus RESTful APIs, ODATA services, gRPC interfaces, and SQL-based systems.
- Experience defining service boundaries, integration contracts, platform patterns, and architecture standards used by multiple teams.
- Experience with event-driven architecture, Kafka, cloud-native architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience establishing observability, SLI/SLO, incident management, resilience testing, and production-readiness practices.
- Experience with secure API design, threat modeling, compliance-by-design, and PCI DSS or other regulated payment environments.
- Ability to use Cursor AI, Kiro, and GitHub Copilot for delivery acceleration, documentation, code quality, and secure adoption coaching.
- Experience designing or deploying production-grade AI agents, copilots, multi-agent systems, or distributed AI architectures.
- Familiarity with vector databases and AI evaluation, safety, and responsible-AI practices.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, payments or fintech experience, mobile development on iOS or Android, organization-wide platform or reliability leadership, internal developer platform experience, and production AI deployment experience.
- Preferred vector database familiarity includes Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, or Milvus.
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About WEX
WEX is a public financial technology company that provides corporate payment solutions to fleets, healthcare/benefits administrators, and travel businesses. Its products include fuel and mobility cards, virtual card payments, and platforms for HSAs/FSAs/HRAs, with revenue from payment processing and software/service fees. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Portland, Maine, WEX trades on the NYSE under WEX and was formerly known as Wright Express.