Software Development Manager

About us

WEX is a global commerce platform that helps businesses solve operational complexities like employee benefits, managing and mobilizing fleets, and streamlining payments.

With over 6,000 employees, we work with large and small companies in more than 200 countries and territories and can tailor our services to meet the unique needs of their businesses.

About the opportunity

Directs the activities of a software systems development function, software applications development function, and a software quality assurance function for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools. Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

You will be expected to:

• Support applications both during and outside business hours;

• Research issues and Service Requests quickly and efficiently;

• Engage in discussions and propose solutions;

• Support production deployments, which occur on evenings and weekends. Contribute to post-deployment application validation. Quickly troubleshoot, evaluate, and resolve any issues that arise;

• Participate in and lead team meetings and feature discussions;

• Create basic designs for new and existing features;

• Develop solutions that can be performant, scalable, consistent, and supportable that can be accomplished within the available scope, time and budget;

• Participate in code reviews within the team and across other teams to ensure implementations adhere to goals, standards, and best practices;

• Deliver software that meets requirements by learning the product area to provide the best long-term solutions;

• Write code that is testable at all levels (unit, integration, and end-to-end.);

• Assist in increasing unit test coverage;

• Review requirements and provide meaningful and timely feedback to improve them;

• Ask questions to ensure requirements are feasible, implementation is efficient, and the design is aligned with the technical direction set by your team and Architects;

• Participate in estimation and prioritization of project requests;

• Establish relationships with Architects, Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Business Analysts to collaborate on design and delivery decisions;

• Contribute to the prioritization of performance improvements and technical debt;

• Understand common security vulnerabilities and best practices defined by Architects to reduce risk of security threats;

• Design and develop technical solutions in all environments, resulting in an increased level of throughput. Others use your code as an example to learn from;

• Understand your team’s product domain and act as an internal subject matter expert;

• Basic knowledge of multiple product domains;

• Able to discuss application behavior and technology outside of the Development department in both a technical and business communication style;

• Help others complete tasks to accomplish goals;

• Step into other roles to ensure project deadlines are met;

• Serve as a mentor with an ability to onboard new Software Engineers ensuring they have the proper tools and knowledge to become productive quickly;

• Participate in the interview process and provide valuable hiring recommendations;

• Provide technical and domain guidance to internal and external team members;

• Lead features or components through the full software deployment lifecycle, including integration, customer feedback, release, and support phases;

• Recommend ways to distribute work across your team to increase development efficiency.

We are looking for a professional who has:

• Relevant experience typical in this role;

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field;

• Experience with tools and programming languages defined by Development Managers specific to their teams;

• Strong knowledge in Software Development Fundamentals and Process, Design, Documentation, Testing, and tools;

• Effective in distributed team environment;

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Hands on experience with automated testing tools to assist with unit testing.

• It would be great, if you had already had the opportunity to work:

• Perform effectively in a cross-functional team environment to ensure successful execution and delivery of project commitments;

• Demonstrate expertise in a domain as evidenced by others seeking your peer reviews, advice, and problem solving;

• Communicate priorities and dependencies across teams to ensure successful execution and delivery of commitments;

• Build relationships with Business Analysts, Quality Assurance Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, Support, Management, Configuration Management, Database Administrators, etc.