* This is a remote position; however, the candidate must reside within 30 miles of one of the following locations: Boston, MA; San Francisco Bay Area, CA; and Portland, ME.
Sr. Manager, Engineering - Mobility APIs
About the Team/Role
We are seeking a seasoned Sr. Manager of Engineering in the WEX Mobility Engineering organization. This role will lead the engineering team for our Mobility APIs product that caters fleet management and mobility payments solutions to our large customers and partners. Mobility APIs development team spans across USA and Brazil. Our Mobility systems provide SaaS and API solutions to various customers in North America. WEX Mobility products enable credit issuance to fleet companies and their employees, and owner-operator truckers in the form of WEX Credit Cards, which can be used in fueling stations and select other merchants. At WEX, we provide fleet managers and operators with the ability to configure spend controls that restrict fleet members to use their card only at preconfigured merchants and for configured product families.
How you’ll make an impact:
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Develop, drive, and execute a long-term vision and strategy for the WEX Mobility APIs for vehicle management and mobility payments (card issuance, controls, lifecycle, transactions).
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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.
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Develop and track progress of Mobility 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.
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Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, empowerment, and continuous learning.
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Continuously challenge the status quo and implement mechanisms to reduce time-to-market using evolving engineering approaches.
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Collaborate with other Mobility engineering teams to reuse development practices and components to reduce duplication.
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Drive cross-team engineering projects as a single-threaded-owner (STO)
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Hire, lead, manage, retain, and grow high-performance software engineers using active career growth planning.
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Work closely with product and commercial partners to drive, prioritize, and work backwards from the customer requirements to develop modern API suite.
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Drive effective monthly and weekly mechanisms to plan, execute, and audit workstreams.
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Partner with product and commercial (sales) leads to maintain a well-thoughtout roadmap, and create clear and inter-dependent OKRs with these partners.
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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.
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Establish measurement of metrics-driven dev productivity across Mobility APIs team.
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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 Mobility domain.
Experience you'll bring:
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Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
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8 years of experience in software engineering with 4 years of engineering management experience.
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Expertise in developing large-scale distributed systems and proven experience in testing and validating solutions for accuracy and performance
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Ability to automate generating scaffolding code, unit tests, and integration tests using past execution data and generative AI
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Strong understanding of security and compliance requirements in cloud and data environments.
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Excellent leadership, team-building, and dynamic decision-making skills.
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Ability to deal with ambiguity and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies.
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Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a scheme/network.
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Experience working on closed-loop card systems.
The base pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay rates will vary and will be based on various factors, such as your qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. Base pay is one component of WEX's total compensation package. Most sales positions are eligible for commission under the terms of an applicable plan. Non-sales roles are typically eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus based on their role and applicable plan. WEX's comprehensive and market competitive benefits are designed to support your personal and professional well-being. Benefits include 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. For more information, check out the "About Us" section.Pay Range: $165,000.00 - $220,000.00
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What We Do
We simplify complex payment systems for fleets, corporate payments, and healthcare—unlocking insights, opportunities, and efficiencies to give you greater control of your business.
Powered by the belief that complex payment systems can be made simple, WEX (NYSE: WEX) is a leading financial technology service provider across a wide spectrum of sectors, including fleet, travel and healthcare. WEX operates in more than 10 countries and in more than 20 currencies through approximately 4,900 associates around the world. WEX fleet cards offer approximately 14 million vehicles exceptional payment security and control; our travel and corporate solutions business processes over $35 billion of purchase volume annually; and the WEX Health financial technology platform helps 343,000 employers and more than 28 million consumers better manage healthcare expenses.
