WEX

Software Engineer 2

WEX
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13 hours ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$96k - $116k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to technical design, development, and implementation of platform features.
  • Build full-stack capabilities across user interfaces, backend services, data models, APIs, and external integrations.
  • Implement payment workflows, expense capture, approvals, spend controls, transaction reporting, and reconciliation.
  • Design reusable business capabilities and APIs for web, mobile, and partner experiences.
  • Write production code, review contributions, resolve complex issues, and participate in design and code reviews.
  • Build production readiness through logging, distributed tracing, metrics, dashboards, alerts, testing, and secure development practices.
  • Own technical outcomes from implementation through deployment, operation, and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Security, senior engineers, and distributed engineering teams to manage dependencies and technical risks.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • 4–6 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot or comparable backend technologies.
  • Understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
  • Experience with REST APIs, distributed systems, relational data models, event-driven integrations, cloud platforms, and production services.
  • Experience with authentication, authorization, data protection, secure API design, unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, and performance testing.
  • Experience with monitoring, distributed tracing, and incident troubleshooting.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, including constructive participation in code reviews and engineering discussions.
  • Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude.
  • Preferred: master’s degree, 6+ years of software engineering experience, API gateways, service mesh technologies, cloud networking, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, or web and mobile application development.

Benefits

  • Remote work, limited to candidates residing within 30 miles of Boston, San Francisco Bay Area, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Seattle, or Portland, Maine.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Retirement savings plan, paid time off, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability insurance, and tuition reimbursement.
  • Eligibility for a quarterly or annual bonus under the applicable plan.

Tech Stack

AWSGrafanaJavaPrometheusSpring Boot
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About WEX

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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