Software Engineer Mgmt 5
About The Position
WEX is seeking a seasoned Manager of Engineering in its Mobility Engineering organization to lead the engineering team for 10-4 by WEX, a product offering fuel discounts and mobility payment solutions to owner-operator customers. The development team is distributed across the USA and Brazil. WEX Mobility products provide credit to fleet companies, their employees, and owner-operator truckers through WEX Credit Cards, which can be used at fueling stations and select other merchants. Fleet managers and operators can configure spend controls to limit card use to specified merchants and product families. The role owns the product’s engineering vision and strategy, technical architecture and delivery across mobile applications and backend microservices, and the growth and performance of the engineering team. It works closely with product, commercial, sales, and other engineering partners to prioritize customer needs, maintain roadmaps and OKRs, execute projects, improve delivery practices, and communicate with senior leadership.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including 4+ years of engineering management experience.
- Hands-on mobile development experience with native iOS or Android, or cross-platform frameworks such as React Native or Flutter.
- Expertise developing large-scale distributed systems and proven experience testing and validating solutions for accuracy and performance.
- Ability to automate generation of scaffolding code, unit tests, and integration tests using past execution data and generative AI.
- Strong understanding of security and compliance requirements in cloud and data environments.
- Excellent leadership, team-building, and dynamic decision-making skills.
- Ability to manage ambiguity and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience scaling mobile applications and backend services to thousands of users.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization.
- Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies.
- Experience building credit card products or developing solutions in a scheme/network.
Responsibilities
- Develop, drive, and execute a long-term vision and strategy for the 10-4 by WEX product.
- Prioritize and work backwards from customer requirements in collaboration with product and commercial partners.
- Maintain a product roadmap and create clear, interdependent OKRs with product and commercial teams.
- Establish an engineering roadmap that provides clarity and motivation for the team.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership and own systems design across mobile applications and backend microservices.
- Lead end-to-end technical project execution from concept through deployment and ongoing support.
- Develop and track the architectural roadmap in alignment with business objectives and industry best practices.
- Own cross-team engineering projects as a single-threaded owner.
- Introduce mechanisms to reduce time to market and continuously challenge existing engineering approaches.
- Establish metrics-driven measurement of development productivity across the team.
- Hire, lead, manage, retain, and develop high-performance software engineers through active career growth planning.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, empowerment, and continuous learning.
- Maintain career growth plans and provide monthly and quarterly feedback on individual progress.
- Maintain a detailed resource map of developers and their month-over-month workstreams.
- Collaborate with other Mobility engineering teams to reuse development practices and components and reduce duplication.
- Drive effective monthly and weekly mechanisms for planning, executing, and auditing workstreams.
- Partner with product and commercial (sales) leads to maintain the roadmap.
- Present, influence, and communicate with senior leadership, and provide regular updates and insights to the Director on challenges and opportunities.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement savings plan
- Paid time off
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Quarterly or annual bonus eligibility for non-sales roles, based on role and applicable plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
