Sr Manager Software Engineering
About The Position
WEX is seeking a seasoned Sr. Manager of Software Engineering to lead the Beyond Fuel and Expense Management initiative within WEX Mobility Engineering. The role leads engineering teams across the United States and India to design, build, and scale payment and expense management capabilities. Working with Product, Design, and business stakeholders, the manager defines technical strategy and delivers solutions that help fleet managers and operators manage business expenses, configure spend controls, and gain visibility into fuel and non-fuel spending. The role also drives adoption of AI throughout the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery efficiency while maintaining security, reliability, and scalability. This is a remote position, but candidates must reside within 30 miles of Boston, MA; the San Francisco Bay Area, CA; Dallas, TX; Salt Lake City, UT; Seattle, WA; or Portland, ME.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
- 4+ years of engineering management experience.
- Expertise in developing large-scale distributed systems.
- Proven experience testing and validating solutions for accuracy and performance.
- Ability to automate the generation of scaffolding code, unit tests, and integration tests using past execution data and generative AI.
- Experience building products with AI-DLC, APIs, and an AI-first approach.
- Strong understanding of security and compliance requirements in cloud and data environments.
- Excellent leadership, team-building, and dynamic decision-making skills.
- Ability to handle ambiguity and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Must reside within 30 miles of Boston, MA; the San Francisco Bay Area, CA; Dallas, TX; Salt Lake City, UT; Seattle, WA; or Portland, ME.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- Experience building credit card products or developing solutions in a scheme/network.
- Experience building or managing fleet payment systems.
- Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization.
Responsibilities
- Develop, drive, and execute the long-term vision and strategy for the Beyond Fuel and Expense Management initiative.
- Prioritize work based on customer requirements in collaboration with product and commercial partners.
- Maintain a roadmap and establish 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 AI-DLC and technical project execution from concept through deployment and ongoing support.
- Develop and track architectural roadmap progress, aligning it with business objectives and industry best practices.
- Own cross-team engineering projects as a single-threaded owner.
- Implement approaches to reduce time to market and continuously challenge existing practices.
- Establish metrics-driven measurement of development productivity across the team.
- Hire, lead, manage, retain, and develop software engineers through active career growth planning.
- Foster 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 practices and components and reduce duplication.
- Drive 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 the manager with regular updates and insights 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, subject to role and applicable plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
