Senior Software Development Manager 4
| Company | Wex |
|---|---|
| Location | Boston, MA, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, Portland, ME, USA |
| Salary | $165000 – $220000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
- 8 years of experience in software engineering with 4 years of engineering management experience.
- Expertise in developing large-scale distributed systems and proven experience in testing and validating solutions for accuracy and performance.
- Ability to automate generating scaffolding code, unit tests, and integration tests using past execution data and generative AI.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Develop, drive, and execute a long-term vision and strategy for the WEX Mobility APIs for vehicle management and mobility payments (card issuance, controls, lifecycle, transactions).
- Be a hands-on technical leader, and own and implement systems designs of API platform, and make high judgement design calls such as choosing between RESTful APIs and gRPC APIs depending on use case.
- Develop and track progress of Mobility APIs architectural roadmap, aligning with business objectives and industry best practices. Maintain a granular resource map of developers and their month-over-month work streams.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, empowerment, and continuous learning.
- Continuously challenge the status quo and implement mechanisms to reduce time-to-market using evolving engineering approaches.
- Collaborate with other Mobility engineering teams to reuse development practices and components to reduce duplication.
- Drive cross-team engineering projects as a single-threaded-owner (STO)
- Hire, lead, manage, retain, and grow high-performance software engineers using active career growth planning.
- Work closely with product and commercial partners to drive, prioritize, and work backwards from the customer requirements to develop modern API suite.
- Drive effective monthly and weekly mechanisms to plan, execute, and audit workstreams.
- Partner with product and commercial (sales) leads to maintain a well-thoughtout roadmap, and create clear and inter-dependent OKRs with these partners.
- Establish a robust and clear engineering roadmap to maintain clarity and motivation for the engineering team. Maintain career growth plans and provide monthly and quarterly feedback for individuals’ continual progress.
- Establish measurement of metrics-driven dev productivity across Mobility APIs team.
- Comfortably present, influence, and communicate to the senior leadership team. Provide regular updates and insights to your manager (Director) on the challenges and opportunities within the Mobility domain.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies.
- Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a scheme/network.
- Experience working on closed-loop card systems.