5 days ago
Portland, ME, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$96k - $116k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the technical design, development, and implementation of platform features.
- Build full-stack capabilities across user interfaces, backend services, data models, APIs, and partner integrations.
- Implement payment, expense capture, approval, spend-control, reporting, and reconciliation workflows.
- Evaluate technical tradeoffs involving performance, security, reliability, cost, and delivery timelines.
- Write production code, review contributions, resolve complex application issues, and participate in design and code reviews.
- Build production readiness through logging, distributed tracing, metrics, dashboards, alerts, testing, accessibility, 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.
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, automated pipelines, testing, monitoring, distributed tracing, and incident troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of authentication, authorization, data protection, and secure API design.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants 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.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including constructive participation in code reviews and engineering discussions.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Retirement savings plan, paid time off, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability insurance, and tuition reimbursement.
- Non-sales roles are typically eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus based on role and applicable plan.
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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.