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WEX · 1 hour ago

Senior Staff Engineer - Platforms

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$166K/yr - $204K/yr

10+ years exp

WEX is a company that focuses on providing payment solutions. They are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust backend services, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement new features and ensure system reliability.

Financial ServicesFinTechPaymentsSoftware

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance code in our backend services

Develop public REST APIs using Java and internal gRPC APIs for inter-service and inter-system communication

Craft systems designs, lead design decisions, and drive alignment with other senior engineers

Write automated unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, concurrency tests, load/performance tests

Analyze existing systems to identify bottlenecks, tech debt, and implement scalability and stability improvements

Implement automation for testing, monitoring, healing, and scaling applications, continuous integration and deployment to reduce time to market

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to define and implement new features

Conduct code reviews (comment, approve, seek revisions, merge), mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and actively promote engineering best practices

Dive deep and troubleshoot complex issues, devise fixes, author root cause analysis documents, and ensure lasting performance and reliability

Conduct objective and comparative analyses of competing technologies to advise the team of pros and cons of a technology solution

Maintain robust documentation (design docs, run books, change management docs, and readiness plans)

Provide live-site support for production applications by monitoring systems, ensuring rapid incident resolution, and driving continuous improvement

Drive cross-team projects as a single-threaded-owner (STO) or tech lead, and actively unblock other engineers to make progress

Qualification

JavaAWSBackend developmentREST APIsScalabilityData structuresObject-oriented designGoC#SpringBootSQLMongoDBKafkaDockerKubernetesAPI securityPCI DSS complianceCommunication skillsMentoring

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

10+ years of professional experience in software engineering

Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design, and problem-solving skills

Expertise in designing and developing internet-scale services with scalability, availability, security, and reliability design tenets

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a collaborative and empathetic mindset

Experience with AWS as the foundational cloud infrastructure, encompassing proficiency in its core services, deployment methodologies, and ongoing management

Proficiency in backend development, with proficiency expertise in Java, Go or C#, and associated frameworks like SpringBoot, building and optimizing RESTful APIs, ODATA framework, and SQL/Mongo