Sr Manager Software Engineering

WEX • Portland, ME

6d • Remote

About The Position

The Sr. Manager of Software Engineering will lead WEX’s 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. In partnership 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 see spending across fuel and non-fuel purchases. The role also drives the adoption of AI across the software development lifecycle to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery efficiency while maintaining security, reliability, and scalability.

This is a remote position, but the candidate must live within 30 miles of Boston, Massachusetts; the San Francisco Bay Area, California; Dallas, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; Seattle, Washington; or Portland, Maine. The position combines strategic leadership, hands-on technical ownership, engineering execution, team development, and collaboration with product, commercial, and other engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• At least 8 years of software engineering experience.
• At least 4 years of engineering management experience.
• Expertise 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 historical execution data and generative AI.
• Experience building products with AI-driven development, 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 work through ambiguity and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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 and execute the long-term vision and strategy for the Beyond Fuel and Expense Management initiative.
• Prioritize and work backwards from customer requirements with product and commercial partners.
• Maintain an initiative 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-driven development and technical project execution from concept through deployment and ongoing support.
• Develop and track the architectural roadmap, aligning it with business objectives and industry practices.
• Own cross-team engineering projects as a single-threaded owner.
• Introduce approaches and mechanisms to reduce time to market and continuously challenge existing practices.
• Establish metrics-driven measurements of engineering productivity.
• Hire, lead, manage, retain, and develop high-performing software engineers through active career planning.
• Foster innovation, collaboration, empowerment, and continuous learning.
• Maintain individual career growth plans and provide monthly and quarterly feedback.
• Maintain a detailed resource map of developers and their month-over-month workstreams.
• Collaborate with Mobility engineering teams to reuse practices and components and reduce duplication.
• Lead effective monthly and weekly planning, execution, and audit mechanisms for workstreams.
• Partner with product and commercial (sales) leads to maintain the roadmap.
• Present, influence, and communicate with senior leadership.
• Provide the manager with regular updates and insights about 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager