Software Development Manager - Java

WEX•Maine, NY

3d•Remote

About The Position

As an Engineering Manager, 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. The 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.

Requirements

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.
4+ years of experience managing team members
4+ years of experience with Java
2+ years of experience with cloud solutions - Azure, Google, Amazon
4+ years 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-motivation with attention to detail, deadlines and reporting

Nice To Haves

Demonstrable experience with systems engineering and automation
Experience with Atlassian tools like Confluence and JIRA
Experience with Linux, containerization and container orchestration like Kubernetes
Experience with logging, metrics, and monitoring tools like DataDog and Splunk
Experience with transaction processing

Responsibilities

Manage a small team of highly motivated developers and Systems Analysts
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