Lead Software Development Engineer

WEX•Saint Louis, MO

15d•$135,000 - $180,000•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer in the WEX Corporate Payments Engineering organization. This role will be a top-tier software engineer to help develop, drive, and execute implementation in an engineering team for the WEX T-Chek platform. T-Chek is a credit card issuing platform that issues both plastic and virtual cards serving both internal and external customers including corporate payments and over-the-road trucking companies. It is responsible for authorization processing, transaction clearing and reporting.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in software engineering
Expertise in rapid development and deployment of Tandem applications written in both C and COBOL.
Experience applying modern software development practices to the application development on the Tandem platform.
Strong understanding of security and compliance requirements.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience building applications in the finance space, such as credit card processing.
Experience working with geographically distributed teams.

Responsibilities

Help 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 T-Chek 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.