Staff Software Engineer

🔥 58 minutes ago

🏄 California, Maine, +4 more states – Remote

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💵 $140.6k - $173.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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WEX

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1983

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

✈️ Travel

💰 $310M Post-IPO Debt on 2020-06

Healthcare • Logistics • Travel

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.

📋 Description

• 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, and external integrations • Translate product requirements into technical designs, delivery milestones, and implementation plans • Design reusable business capabilities and APIs supporting web, mobile, and partner experiences • Establish patterns for payment workflows, expense capture, approvals, spend controls, transaction reporting, and reconciliation • Evaluate technical options and communicate 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 actionable logs, distributed tracing, metrics, dashboards, and alerts • Use approved AI tools throughout development, testing, and documentation, reviewing and validating generated output • Partner with engineering leaders to identify dependencies, manage technical risks, and support delivery • Own technical outcomes from initial implementation through deployment, operation, and continuous improvement • Collaborate with Product, Design, Security, and engineering teams across the United States and India • Provide technical leadership as an individual contributor without direct people management

🎯 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 building and operating production services with monitoring, distributed tracing, and incident troubleshooting • Ability to influence technical direction across teams without formal management authority • Ability to explain technical decisions clearly to engineering and business stakeholders • Track record of mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices through hands-on collaboration • Hands-on experience leveraging AI coding assistants and development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or 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, and cloud networking concepts • Preferred: Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability platforms • Preferred: Exposure to web and mobile application development

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurances • Retirement savings plan • Paid time off • Health savings account • Flexible spending accounts • Life insurance • Disability insurance • Tuition reimbursement • Quarterly or annual bonus eligibility for non-sales roles, based on applicable plan