2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, high-performance object-oriented backend services.
- Develop public APIs using Java and internal gRPC APIs for inter-service and inter-system communication.
- Lead system designs, design decisions, technology evaluations, and alignment with senior engineers.
- Build and maintain unit, integration, end-to-end, concurrency, load, and performance tests.
- Identify bottlenecks and technical debt and implement scalability, stability, and reliability improvements.
- Automate testing, monitoring, healing, scaling, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to define and implement features.
- Conduct code reviews, mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues, author root cause analyses, and ensure lasting fixes.
- Maintain design documents, run books, change management documents, and readiness plans.
- Provide live-site support by monitoring production systems and resolving incidents.
- Drive cross-team projects as a single-threaded owner or technical lead and unblock other engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and problem solving.
- Expertise designing and developing internet-scale services with scalability, availability, security, and reliability considerations.
- Proficiency in backend development with Java or C#, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, ODATA, and SQL.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative, empathetic mindset.
- Ability to use AI-enabled development tools such as Cursor AI, Kiro, and GitHub Copilot.
- Preferred: master’s degree in computer science or software engineering.
- Preferred: experience with event-driven architecture and Kafka.
- Preferred: experience with card payments, cloud-native architecture, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Preferred: familiarity with iOS or Android development.
- Preferred: experience building and deploying AI solutions, production-grade AI agents or copilots, multi-agent systems, distributed AI architectures, and vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, or Milvus.
- Preferred: knowledge of AI evaluation techniques, safety practices, responsible AI principles, API security, and PCI DSS compliance.
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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.