Director of Software Engineering
WEX
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Seattle • Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $188,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudMicroservices
About the role
- Analyze various OTR products to outline cross-cutting and core capabilities to develop, drive and execute a long-term vision and strategy for WEX OTR Core services
- Define and implement a comprehensive architectural roadmap for OTR Experiences, aligning with business objectives and industry best practices
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, empowerment, and continuous learning within the engineering teams
- Continuously challenge the status quo and implement mechanisms to reduce time-to-market using efficient engineering methods
- Collaborate with other OTR engineering teams to reuse development practices and components to reduce duplication
- Craft, lead, manage, and grow high-performance engineering teams
- Hire, coach, promote, and retain high performers to achieve WEX goals
- Work closely with product and commercial partners to drive, prioritize, and work backwards from the customer requirements and exceed expected outcomes
- Drive effective monthly, weekly, and quarterly mechanisms to plan, execute, and audit workstreams
- Establish a robust and clear engineering roadmap to maintain clarity and motivation for the engineering team
- Maintain career growth plans and provide monthly and quarterly feedback for individuals’ continual progress
- Establish measurement of metrics-driven dev productivity across OTR engineering team
- Comfortably present, influence, and communicate to the senior leadership team
- Provide regular updates and insights to senior leadership on the challenges and opportunities within the OTR Payments domain
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline
- 10 years of experience in software engineering with 5 years of engineering management experience managing individual contributors and managers
- Expertise in microservices, REST apis and deployment using cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure
- Strong understanding of security and compliance requirements in cloud and data environments
- Excellent leadership, team-building, and dynamic decision-making skills
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a scheme/network (preferred)
- Experience building or managing fleet systems (preferred)
- Experience working on card payments using ISO8583 (preferred)
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams, and ability to craft self-managing distributed teams (preferred)
Benefits
- health, dental and vision insurances
- retirement savings plan
- paid time off
- health savings account
- flexible spending accounts
- life insurance
- disability insurance
- tuition reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
software engineeringmicroservicesREST APIscloud computingAWSAzuresecurity requirementscompliance requirementsmetrics-driven developmentcredit card products
Soft skills
leadershipteam-buildingdynamic decision-makingcollaborationinnovationcoachingcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilitymentoring
Certifications
Master’s degree in Computer Science