Software Developer Technical Lead

About the Team / Role

As a Software Engineer Tech Lead on the WEX Benefits Technology team, you will work in a team that partners closely with Product Managers and customers to learn about the challenges employers face while navigating the competitive employee benefits landscape. You will design solutions that solve problems in ways our customers love and work for our business. You will build the highest quality software in the latest technologies and test driven development practices.

How you'll make an impact

Collaborate with stakeholders to learn about our customers biggest challenges.

Measure, inspect, and drive decisions using data.

Design, test, code, and instrument new solutions.

Strengthen and drive our engineering process with TDD and BDD, Microservice and Vertical Slice Architectures.

Support live applications, promote proactive monitoring, rapid incident response, and continuous improvement.

Analyze existing systems and processes to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements.

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

Lead initiatives for your team by using your wide-ranging experience and deep technical knowledge to make decisions on method and approach to solving issues.

Hold your team accountable for delivering quality results using defined OKRs.

Interact with Senior Managers to discuss plans, results, and advise on complex matters.

Experience you'll bring  :

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

OR demonstrable equivalent experience.

Strong experience in software engineering.

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Passionate about keeping up with modern technologies and design.

Proficiency in Angular and / or React

Experience building and consuming REST APIs

Proven track record of writing comprehensive unit tests and test suites

Strong understanding of software security principles and OWASP guidelines

Proficiency with Git version control and CI / CD pipelines

Experience with Agile development methodologies

Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Track record of delivering complex projects on schedule

Experience in writing performant stored procedures and functions

Technology Must-Haves :

C#, Java or Python

RESTful API design

Modern RDBMS (i.e. MS SQL, Postgres, MySQL)

Experience in developing Cloud-Native applications and services (AWS or Azure)

Docker

Kafka / event-driven design

Modern Web UI Frameworks and Libraries (i.e. Angular, React)

Kubernetes

NoSQL databases

Technology Nice-To-Have or Dedicate to Learning Quickly :

Helm / ArgoCD

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GraphQL

Azure

Generative AI and Agentic AI models and frameworks