Software Engineer (Apps) 4

This is a remote position. For consideration, one must live within 30 miles of the following company HUBS:

• Bay Area
• Chicago,IL

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About the Team
Known leader for the primary team, demonstrated through a deep understanding of multiple technical areas and industry standard best practices. Demonstrates ability to take expansive technically complex features and strategically break them down into understandable, workable units for WEX Health teams.
 
How you’ll make an impact
Team Collaboration

• Support applications both during and outside business hours. 
• Resolve issues and Service Requests quickly and efficiently.
• Support production deployments, which occur on evenings and weekends. Contribute to post-deployment application validation. Quickly troubleshoot, evaluate, and resolve any issues that arise.
• Participate in and lead team conversations, meetings and feature discussions.

Software Design and Architecture

• Design application architecture. Others use your designs as examples to use from. 
• Develop solutions that can be performant, scalable, consistent, and supportable that can be accomplished within the available scope, time and budget. 
• Perform design and code reviews within the team and across other teams to ensure implementations adhere to goals, industry standards and best practices.
• Deliver software that meets requirements by applying knowledge of the product area to provide the best long-term solutions.
• Ensure code is testable at all levels (unit, integration, and end-to-end). 
• Increase unit test coverage.
• Review requirements to provide meaningful, timely and critical feedback to improve them.
• Ensure requirements are feasible, implementation is efficient, and the design is aligned with the technical direction of WEX.
• Estimate and prioritize project requests.
• Assist with internal partner initiatives and projects.
• Work with Architects, Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Business Analysts to collaborate on design and delivery decisions.

Project Implementation

• Identify and document performance improvements and technical debt.
• Reduce the risk of security threats to WEX Health through a strong understanding of security best practices and close collaboration with Security Architects.
• Identify new threats and vulnerabilities and work with Architects to evolve mitigation strategies.
• Efficiently and effectively implement solutions in all environments, resulting in an increased level of throughput. Others use your code as an example to learn from.

Product Proficiency

• Demonstrate expert level understanding of your team’s product domain and understand multiple product domains outside of your current team.
• Act as an internal and external subject matter expert on WEX systems.
• Able to describe application behavior and technology outside of the Development department in both a technical and business communication style.

Leadership

• Help others complete tasks to accomplish goals.
• Step into other roles to ensure project deadlines are met.
• Mentor and onboard new Software Engineers ensuring they have the proper tools and knowledge to become productive quickly.
• Participate in the interview process and provide valuable hiring recommendations.
• Provide technical and domain guidance to internal and external team members.
• Lead multiple features or components through the full software deployment lifecycle, including integration, customer feedback, release, and support phases.
• Recommend ways to distribute work across your team to increase development efficiency.
• Perform effectively in a cross-functional team environment to ensure successful execution and delivery of project commitments.
• Demonstrate expertise in a domain as evidenced by others seeking your peer reviews, advice, and problem solving.
• Coordinate work efforts and communicate priorities across teams to ensure successful execution and delivery of commitments.
• These teams may include Business Analysts, Quality Assurance Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, Support, Management, Configuration Management, Database Administrators, etc.
• Facilitate team meetings as needed, including scrum master ceremonies, if applicable to the team.

Experience you’ll bring

• 6 - 10 years of Software Development Engineering experience
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
• Experience with tools and programming languages defined by Development Managers specific to their teams.
• Will take 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree
• Strong knowledge in Software Development Fundamentals and Process, Design, Documentation, Testing, and tools
• Highly effective in distributed team environment
• Expert level experience with automated testing tools to assist with unit testing
• Passionate about keeping up with modern technologies and design.
• C#, Python (if applicable)
• Docker
• Modern RDBMS (i.e. MS SQL, Postgres)
• ASP.NET RESTful API design
• Kafka / event-driven design
• Terraform
• Modern Web UI Frameworks (i.e. Angular, React, Blazor)
• Kubernetes
• NoSQL databases

Great to Have:

• Helm/ArgoCD
• GitHub Actions
• GraphQL

The base pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay rates will vary and will be based on various factors, such as your qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. Base pay is one component of WEX's total compensation package. Most sales positions are eligible for commission under the terms of an applicable plan. Non-sales roles are typically eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus based on their role and applicable plan. WEX's comprehensive and market competitive benefits are designed to support your personal and professional well-being. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurances, retirement savings plan, paid time off, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more. For more information, check out the "About Us" section.Pay Range: $134,000.00 - $178,000.00