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 position leads engineering teams across the United States and India in designing, building, and scaling payment and expense management capabilities. The role partners with Product, Design, and business stakeholders to define technical strategy and deliver solutions that help fleet managers and operators manage business expenses, configure spend controls, and gain visibility into spending across fuel and non-fuel purchases. It also drives AI adoption 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 the candidate must live within 30 miles of Boston, San Francisco Bay Area, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Seattle, or Portland, Maine. The position combines strategic leadership, technical ownership, team development, and collaboration with product, commercial, and engineering partners. The base pay range is $175,600 to $204,300, with actual pay based on qualifications and other factors. Non-sales roles are typically eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus under the applicable plan.
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 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 deal with 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 payments 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.
- Create 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 an architectural roadmap aligned with business objectives and industry best practices.
- Lead cross-team engineering projects as a single-threaded owner.
- Implement mechanisms to reduce time to market and continuously evaluate evolving engineering approaches.
- Establish metrics-driven measurement of development productivity across the team.
- Hire, lead, manage, retain, and develop high-performing 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; 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 the applicable plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
