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Software Engineering Manager (Java)

WEX Inc. is a global commerce platform that simplifies the business of running a business by offering personalized technology solutions for employee benefits, mobility and fleet management, and corporate payments.

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Employee count: 5000+

Brazil only

About the Role

As an Engineering Team Lead you will be responsible for managing a team while designing and creating new applications that fit with our team standards to execute and deliver projects efficiently and on time.

Who Are We?

We’re the Gateway team at Wex.

Wex is a leading and growing global provider of payment processing, information management and fleet card payment solutions. We hire people who share our passion for continuous innovation and unparalleled client service.

The Gateway is a mission critical, payment processing solution built by a small, agile team. It is Java based and becoming cloud-native by implementing key features as micro services. The Gateway team is pushing the frontiers of payments technology and is in the process of operationalizing and scaling the product.

Our team works hard, covers for one another, and maintains work-life balance. We own our results and we take pride in ownership of everything we do.

We need help!

Changing the world isn’t easy, and we have a lot of work ahead of us. From new product features, to automation, to supporting micro services, there are a lot of opportunities for us to grow, and we’re looking for great people to come along for the ride.

Who are you?

As an Engineering Team Lead you will play an important role in the design and analysis of software projects with a high level of technical experience. For this role, we need someone excited about solving problems and being able to juggle multiple items in a day, taking joy in being very efficient in driving items through a pipeline process. Primary responsibilities are to solve current reported problems and find opportunities to resolve those with long term solutions. Other responsibilities may include planning, design, development and testing software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products.

Our goal is that about 50% of your responsibility is to provide technical leadership, direction, guidance, and support for the members of your team and about 50% of the role will be development.

Responsibilities:

  • Evaluate and respond to customer needs in a fashion that provides long-term benefit to WEX by finding strategic solutions to issues and driving that forward.

  • Be in position to quickly and effectively resolve customer reported issues; taking ownership of the support process and collaborating with others on best solutions, effectively being a positive force for other teams by allowing focused development to continue.

  • Become product domain expert and develop techniques to help team members gain expertise

  • Contribute to the development and maintenance of the application architecture and ensures all development conforms to defined standards

  • Analyze, design, program, debug and modify software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked or internet related computer programs

  • Recommend changes in development, maintenance and system standards

  • Support technological aspects of a software development project so that the end product meets business & technology requirements and is delivered on-time and on-budget

  • Manage a small team of highly motivated developers

Who are you?

Culturally, you're

  • A highly motivated engineer who loves working on small, high performing teams.

  • Collaborative, a solid communicator, and work well with your team and stakeholders.

  • Someone who cares deeply for team results, checks your ego at the door and takes pride in owning results.

  • A professional who can advocate strongly for positions and still be 100% behind team decisions even if they don’t go your way

  • A mentor who is capable at guiding the technical development of less experienced developers at the functional, component architectural levels

  • Are comfortable balancing the need to move fast with the realities of working in a highly regulated space like payments

Technically, you

  • pick up new technology and can switch between tech stacks with a minimum of fuss

  • are comfortable working on front-end web code, back end services, data stores, and infrastructure systems

  • have experience writing modern software deployed in the cloud

  • are comfortable with encryption schemes, modern APIs, and front-end frameworks

  • have worked on agile teams to deliver software iteratively

At a minimum, you have

  • BS in an engineering field OR can make us feel intensely confident that you don’t need one.

  • A demonstrable working understanding of at least one modern web framework.

  • Experience leading or managing team members

  • Experience with Java

  • Experience with cloud solutions - Azure, Google, Amazon

  • Experience working on agile teams to deliver software iteratively

  • Experience with designing and architecting applications

  • Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery

  • Excellent overall knowledge of Enterprise Level technologies

  • Strong analytical, prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, budgeting, project management (from conception to completion), & planning skills

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills (including analysis, interpretation, & reasoning)

  • Self-motivated with attention to detail, deadlines and reporting

It would be nice if you

  • Can show us one or more passion projects or open-source work you have contributed to in your own time

  • Have demonstrable experience with systems engineering and automation

  • Have experience with Atlassian tools like Confluence and JIRA

  • Experience with Linux, containerization and container orchestration like Kubernetes

  • Have experience with logging, metrics, and monitoring tools like DataDog and Splunk

  • Have experience with transaction processing

  • Enjoy hanging out with your team

If you are looking for a growing career – come be part of WEX today!

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Full Time

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Manager

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Brazil +/- 0 hours

About wex

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WEX Inc. is a global commerce platform that simplifies the business of running a business. Many of our customers face the challenge of managing complex operational processes due to the rapid pace of regulatory, economic, and societal change worldwide. They are often stretched thin and lack the in-house expertise to solve these intricate problems. This is why WEX offers personalized technology solutions designed to simplify employee benefits, mobility and fleet management, and accounts payable and receivables processes. From our origins as a pioneer in fleet card payments in 1983, we have expanded our scope to become a multi-channel provider of corporate payment solutions, helping businesses navigate these complexities and achieve greater efficiency.

Our customers in the fleet industry, for example, need robust tools to manage fuel and maintenance expenses, ensure driver safety, and optimize operations. WEX Fleet provides them with fuel cards, telematics, and data analytics to meet these needs. For businesses involved in travel, managing cross-border payments and streamlining back-end accounting can be a significant hurdle. WEX's travel and corporate solutions, including virtual payment solutions, help these clients automate processes, reduce costs, and gain better insights into their spending. Similarly, in the healthcare sector, employers and employees alike grapple with the administration of benefits and healthcare payments. WEX Health offers a cloud-based platform to simplify the management of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), and other benefit plans, making it easier for millions of consumers to manage their healthcare expenses. By embedding our solutions into our customers' workflows and leveraging our expertise in data and analytics, we empower them to make smarter decisions, reduce operating costs, and ultimately, reach their full potential.

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Life insurance

WEX offers life insurance.

Paid sick days

WEX provides paid sick days.

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