Mid Software Engineer / Data

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

• Collaborate with stakeholders to learn about our customers biggest challenges.

• Design, test, code, and instrument new data products/systems/platforms at small to medium complexity level.

• Effectively measure, inspect, and drive decisions using data.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.

• Perform software development with TDD and BDD, Microservice and Vertical Slice Architectures.

• Support live data products/systems/platforms, 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.

• Get good at our team’s process and best practices, and apply them to given tasks with help from peers and your manager. Make sure to understand customer/business problems you try to solve with these tasks, and your design and implementation can actually solve these problems in an effective, reliable, and sustainable way.

• Partner with and assist your peers on completing tasks.

• Focus on continuous learning of new technologies.

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

• Perform technical discussions.

• Proactively review work from peers and learn.

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) or good experience in software engineering.

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

• Capable of designing a good solution for a medium scale problem or component.

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

• With experience and good understanding of data processing techniques, such as data pipeline development, SQL, and DBs.

• With experience and good understanding of CI/CD automation.

• Passionate about keeping up with modern technologies and design.

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

• Passionate about understanding and solving customer/business problems.