Sr Software Engineer

About the Team / Role

WEX is an innovative global commerce platform and payments technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, to simplify the business of doing business for customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love and care about. We are journeying to build a consistent world-class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer-focused innovations across all our strategic initiatives, including big data, AI, and Risk.

Risk Platform’s agile engineering teams build the services, system integrations and analytic tools that enable WEX products and business lines to make smart risk decisions at scale as they grow. Major platform systems include credit decisioning, credit portfolio management, fraud detection, risk data analytics, compliance, and collections. Risk Platform engineers address the needs of our business partners by designing, building and deploying scalable, observable solutions utilizing modern, cloud-based service architectures and leveraging WEX’s world-class AI and big data platforms.

How you’ll make an impact

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

Perform and lead technical discussions.

Proactively identify and communicate dependencies.

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

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 your design and development for high productivity and better solution quality.

Experience you’ll bring

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

OR demonstrable equivalent deep understanding, experience, and capability.

Master degree in Computer Science (or related field) and good experience in software engineering or strong experience in software engineering. Experience in data system / platform development.

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

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

Rich experience and strong implementation skills using languages like Java, C#, Go lang, & Python, including coding, automated testing, measurement and monitoring.

Experienced and with good understanding of data processing techniques, such as data pipeline / platform development, SQL, and DBs

Experienced and with good understanding of CI / CD automation.

Experience in combined engineering practice and agile development.

Passionate about keeping up with modern technologies and design. Highly interested in big data technology and its applications.

Strong willingness and capability to learn new technology and tools quickly when needed.

Passionate about understanding and solving customer / business problems.

Good understanding of data processing and usage technology.

Good understanding and experience in using AI technology for productivity improvement and / or building innovative products.