Software Engineering Manager (Corporate Payments)

About the Team/Role

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager in the WEX Corporate Payments Engineering organization. This role will lead an engineering team for the WEX EnCompass platform applications. EnCompass is the customer facing user experience and technical integrations for Corporate Payments customers, including UIs, APIs, webhooks, and data streams.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Develop, drive and execute a long-term vision and strategy for the Corporate Payments cross-cutting and core services.

• Collaboratively define and implement a comprehensive architectural roadmap for the EnCompass platform, aligning with business objectives, industry best practices, and other Corporate Payments teams.

• 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 Corporate Payments 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.

Experience you'll bring:

• Great experience in software engineering and engineering management experience.

• Experience writing high-quality automation, including well-formed unit, component, and integration tests and an in-depth understanding of the test pyramid.

• Strong understanding of security and compliance requirements in cloud and data environments.

• Deep Expertise in Back-End Development: Proven track record with .NET Framework (Core/Standard) and its modern iterations. Experience with C# is essential.

• Cloud Engineering Mastery: Expert-level experience designing, deploying, and managing production services on either AWS (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS) or Azure (e.g., App Service, Azure Functions, AKS).

• API Design & Integration: Extensive experience designing and building RESTful APIs, utilizing standards like OpenAPI/Swagger, and managing complex integrations via webhooks and event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS, Azure Service Bus, etc.).

• Database Fluency: Strong practical experience with both relational (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB, or Cosmos DB).

• DevOps Mindset: Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation).

• Experience building applications in the finance and payments space (e.g., credit card processing, corporate payments, accounts receivables/payables).

• Excellent leadership, team-building, and dynamic decision-making skills.

• Ability to deal with ambiguity and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building applications in the finance space, such as credit card products, accounts receivables/payables, etc.

• Experience in complex architectures.

• Experience working with geographically distributed teams, and ability to craft self-managing distributed teams.