Senior Software Engineer

About the Team/Role

We are looking for a highly motivated and high potential Senior Engineer to join our Global Risk Operations team to make  significant business impacts and grow your career. 

This is a really exciting time to be in Risk Engineering at WEX. WEX has sophisticated products empowering a wide variety of customer businesses. Risk Engineering develops products that are fundamental to Wex’s short and long term strategic growth while ensuring industry compliance and transactional security using sophisticated anti-fraud systems. We develop systems using the latest technologies and deployment strategies. These include leveraging big data for analytics and AI/ML modeling, event-driven and containerized microservice architectures, as well cloud and kubernetes deployments and orchestrations.

We have challenging problems with huge business impact potential for you to lead, work on and grow. We also have a strong team with highly talented and skillful engineers and leaders to support, guide, coach you.

If you dream to be a strong engineer who can solve tough problems, lead, generate big impacts, and grow fast, this is a great opportunity for you!

This role is based in Bangalore, India. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the risk field and invoicing platform development, a proven background in developing complex software platforms, strong engineering skills and technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a drive to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. This individual will have a strong track record of delivering an effective, highly available, and flexible technology platform in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly.

How you’ll make an impact

Collaborate with partners and stakeholders to learn about our customers’ business needs and key challenges.

Design, code, test, deploy, and monitor sophisticated processes in a cloud based architecture

Effectively develop and maintain CI/CD automation using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, including provisioning and managing cloud-based data infrastructure.

Perform software development with TDD and BDD, Microservice and event oriented architectures.

Analyze data, existing systems and processes independently to effectively identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements.

Mentor and learn from your peers, foster continuous learning of new technology within your team and organization.

Help in interviews and provide quality and timely feedback.

Strong at our team’s process and best practices, and apply them to given tasks with help from peers and your manager. Proactively understand customer/business problems you try to solve with these tasks, and your design and implementation can actually solve these problems in an effective, reliable, and sustainable way.

Partner with, assist, or lead team members in development and problem solving.

Take  strong ownership/accountability, be proactive, and lead.

Lead a scrum team with proper agile development practices, and ensure the high quality and timely development and delivery that solve target problems effectively.

Own medium to large complex components or systems/products/platforms.

Participate and lead technical discussions.

Design and build high quality and efficient systems with craftsmanship.

Independently & productively complete work at medium/large complexity level and proactively seek reviews from senior engineers on your work to ensure high quality

Proactively identify and communicate dependencies.

Proactively review work from peers and provide constructive feedback/comments.

Build reliable, secure, high quality, efficient, and easy to use big data platforms and tools at scale for supporting all kinds of data transferring, ingestion, processing, serving, delivery, consumption, and data governance needs.

Build systems, platforms, data pipelines, and tools for E-2-E data life cycle, including data ingestion, cleaning, processing, enrichment, optimization, and serving by leveraging the Data platform. It’s our responsibility to deliver high quality, rich, easy to understand & use data for external and internal purposes. For these, you will build data quality measurement & monitoring techniques and systems, metadata and data catalog, Master Data Management, etc.

Become a subject matter expert in your functional area and best practices.

Assess unique circumstances and apply creative problem-solving techniques to resolve issues or suggest various approaches.

Use data and/or AI technology or tools in solutions you design/develop for more effective business outcomes and better customer experience as well as in your design & and development work for high productivity and better solution quality.

Analyze data to deeply understand risk problems and build effective solutions.

Eager and good at learning and exploring new technology and innovative approach to improve effectiveness and productivity. Bring the learnings to the team to lead team’s grow together.

Experience you’ll bring

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

OR demonstrable equivalent deep understanding, experience, and capability. 4+ years of experience in software engineering at a large scale.

Master or PhD degree in Computer Science (or related field) and 2+ years of experience in software engineering.

Strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Highly self motivated and eager to learn. Continuous growth and upskilling mindset. Always learning. Always growing.

Rich experience in designing a high quality, performant, and efficient solution for a medium/large complex level problem.

Rich experience and good understanding of CI/CD automation.

Experienced in combined engineering practices and agile development.

Rich experience and strong implementation skills using languages like Java, C#, or Golang including coding, automated testing, measurement and monitoring. Experienced in TDD approach.

Good understanding of data processing techniques, such as data pipeline/platform development, SQL,  as well as relational, NoSQL, and data warehousing technologies.

Experienced in cloud technology, such as AWS, Azure, GCP as well as deployment topologies to ensure high availability and low latency processing

Passionate about understanding and solving customer/business problems.

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: $121,500.00 - $145,500.00