Senior Software Development Engineer – Backend

November 5

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WEX

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Transport • Finance • Fintech

WEX is a global commerce platform specializing in various business solutions to address operational challenges. They provide services in managing and mobilizing fleets with their fuel card systems, offering comprehensive fleet management and analytics. Additionally, they focus on business payments solutions that streamline processes across industries, enhancing efficiency and security. WEX is also involved in employee benefits administration, helping organizations effectively manage health and reimbursement accounts. Their diverse range of services caters to numerous sectors, emphasizing innovation, sustainability, and effective solutions for business growth.

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1983

🚗 Transport

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 $310M Post-IPO Debt on 2020-06

📋 Description

• Design, implement, test, and deploy large-scale software systems with a focus on maintainability, scalability, and performance leading by influence • Demonstrates system-level thinking and technical leadership through influence rather than management • Take end-to-end ownership of stories, regularly delivering complex features and suggesting better implementation paths operating as a senior-level individual contributor with minimal guidance • Consistently write thorough unit, integration, and UI tests; drive test-first approaches and coach others on quality practices • Actively contribute to grooming by asking insightful testability and edge-case questions that improve story quality • Conduct thoughtful design and code reviews, providing meaningful feedback on functionality, architecture, and test coverage • Mentor less-experienced engineers, raising the team’s technical bar through coaching and sharing best practices • Participate in system design and architecture discussions, influencing decisions with deep technical insight • Proactively identify opportunities for automation, refactoring, and improvement to enhance developer productivity and system reliability • Contribute to a culture of collaboration, transparency, and continuous learning across distributed teams in the US and Brazil

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced English communication skills • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or a related field • Master’s degree • Proven senior professional software engineering experience • Proven expertise in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, or C++ • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and system design principles • Experience building distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs • Demonstrated ability to apply a QA mindset: test-first development, edge-case thinking, and driving quality proactively • Comfortable working across the full stack (front-end, back-end, data, cloud) • Track record of mentoring peers and improving engineering practices • Ability to operate independently and confidently while collaborating effectively in agile teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive and market competitive benefits designed to support personal and professional well-being