WEX

Senior Software Engineer

WEX
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4 days ago
Remote, United States or Portland, ME, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$122k - $146k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the architecture, design, and implementation of the Beyond Fuel and Expense Management platform.
  • Build full-stack capabilities across user interfaces, backend services, data models, APIs, and external integrations.
  • Design reusable business capabilities and APIs for web, mobile, and partner experiences.
  • Establish patterns for payment workflows, expense capture, approvals, spend controls, transaction reporting, and reconciliation.
  • Evaluate technical tradeoffs involving performance, security, reliability, cost, and delivery timelines.
  • Write production code, review contributions, resolve complex issues, and participate in design and code reviews.
  • Establish standards for automated testing, API contracts, observability, accessibility, and secure development.
  • Implement production readiness through logs, distributed tracing, metrics, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Use approved AI tools during development, testing, and documentation while validating generated output.
  • Partner with engineering leaders to manage dependencies and technical risks, and own outcomes through deployment and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • 6–8 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot or comparable backend technologies.
  • Strong 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 automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Knowledge of authentication, authorization, data protection, and secure API design.
  • Experience with unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing.
  • Experience operating production services with monitoring, distributed tracing, and incident troubleshooting.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions to engineering and business stakeholders.
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices through hands-on collaboration.
  • Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, 8+ years of software engineering experience, API gateway and service mesh experience, cloud networking knowledge, observability platform familiarity, and exposure to web and mobile application development.

Benefits

  • Remote position requiring residence 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, and disability insurance.
  • Tuition reimbursement and additional comprehensive benefits.
  • Non-sales roles are typically eligible 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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