2 days ago
Base Salary
$141k - $173k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical architecture, design, and implementation of the Beyond Fuel and Expense Management platform.
- Build full-stack capabilities spanning user interfaces, backend services, data models, APIs, and external integrations.
- Translate product requirements into technical designs, delivery milestones, and implementation plans.
- Establish reusable capabilities and APIs for web, mobile, and partner experiences, including payment workflows, expense capture, approvals, spend controls, reporting, and reconciliation.
- Evaluate tradeoffs involving performance, security, reliability, cost, and delivery timelines.
- Write production code, review contributions, and resolve complex issues across the application stack.
- Guide engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical mentoring, and collaborative problem-solving.
- Establish standards for automated testing, API contracts, observability, accessibility, and secure development.
- Build production readiness through logs, distributed tracing, metrics, dashboards, alerts, deployment, operation, and continuous improvement.
- Use approved AI tools during development, testing, and documentation while validating generated output.
- Partner with engineering leaders to manage dependencies, technical risks, and delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 8–10 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience taking a new product from concept to production and evolving it as adoption grows.
- 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 designing REST APIs, distributed systems, relational data models, and event-driven integrations.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, 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.
- Ability to influence technical direction without formal management authority and communicate decisions clearly to technical 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, and Claude.
- Preferred: master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- Preferred: 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- Preferred: experience with API gateways, service mesh technologies, cloud networking, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability platforms, plus web and mobile application development experience.
Benefits
- Remote position, with residence required 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.
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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.