WEX · 11 hours ago
Senior Manager, Software Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$176K/yr - $204K/yr
8+ years expWEX is seeking a seasoned Sr. Manager of Engineering to lead the engineering team for their OTR APIs product. This role involves developing a long-term vision and strategy for vehicle management and OTR payments, while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration within the team.
Financial ServicesFinTechPaymentsSoftware
Responsibilities
Develop, drive, and execute a long-term vision and strategy for the WEX OTR APIs for vehicle management and OTR 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 OTR 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 OTR 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-thought out 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 OTR 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 OTR domain
Qualification
Required
Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
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
Company
WEX
Wex is a financial technology service provider for fleet, travel and healthcare industries.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$900MKey Investors
Warburg Pincus
2025-02-25Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2020-06-30Post Ipo Equity· $90M
2020-06-30Post Ipo Debt· $310M
Leadership Team
Melissa Smith
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Sachin Dhawan
Chief Technology Officer
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