About the Team/Role
We are looking for a highly motivated and high potential Senior Engineer to join our Risk Engineering Data Team to make significant business impacts and grow your career.
This is a really exciting time to be in the Risk Engineering Data Team at WEX. Wex has sophisticated business and products empowering a wide variety of customer businesses. Data generated from these production systems, applications, and platforms are rich and complex. As one of the most valuable assets of Wex, the data provides huge potential values for our customers and business. It’s the data team’s responsibility to build big data technology, platforms, systems, and tools to clean, process, enrich, and optimize the core company data, and make them easy and efficient to use to enable Wex customers and internal teams to generate customer and business value. We develop and leverage advanced technologies from the industry to ensure our efficiency and effectiveness, including modern big data technologies and AI technologies. We use agile development with the combined engineering approach and the product operating model.
We have challenging problems with huge business impact potentials for you to lead, work on and grow. We also have a strong team with highly talented and skillful engineers and leaders to support, guide, coach you.
If you dream to be a strong engineer who can solve tough problems, lead, generate big impacts, and grow fast, this is a great opportunity for you!
How you’ll make an impact:
Collaborate with partners and stakeholders to learn about our customers’ business needs and key challenges.
Design, code, test, deploy, and monitor sophisticated processes in a cloud based architecture
Effectively develop and maintain CI/CD automation using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, including provisioning and managing cloud-based data infrastructure.
Perform software development with TDD and BDD, Microservice and event oriented architectures.
Analyze data, existing systems and processes independently to effectively identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements.
Mentor and learn from your peers, foster continuous learning of new technology within your team and organization.
Help in interviews and provide quality and timely feedback.
Strong at our team’s process and best practices, and apply them to given tasks with help from peers and your manager. Proactively 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, assist, or lead team members in development and problem solving.
Take strong ownership/accountability, be proactive, and lead.
Lead a scrum team with proper agile development practices, and ensure the high quality and timely development and delivery that solve target problems effectively.
Own medium to large complex components or systems/products/platforms.
Participate and lead technical discussions.
Design and build high quality and efficient systems with craftsmanship.
Independently & productively complete work at medium/large complexity level and proactively seek reviews from senior engineers on your work to ensure high quality
Proactively identify and communicate dependencies.
Proactively review work from peers and provide constructive feedback/comments.
Build reliable, secure, high quality, efficient, and easy to use big data platforms and tools at scale for supporting all kinds of data transferring, ingestion, processing, serving, delivery, consumption, and data governance needs.
Build systems, platforms, data pipelines, and tools for E-2-E data life cycle, including data ingestion, cleaning, processing, enrichment, optimization, and serving by leveraging the Data platform. It’s our responsibility to deliver high quality, rich, easy to understand & use data for external and internal purposes. For these, you will build data quality measurement & monitoring techniques and systems, metadata and data catalog, Master Data Management, etc.
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 solutions you design/develop for more effective business outcomes and better customer experience as well as in your design & and development work for high productivity and better solution quality.
Analyze data to deeply understand risk problems and build effective solutions.
Eager and good at learning and exploring new technology and innovative approach to improve effectiveness and productivity. Bring the learnings to the team to lead team’s grow together.
Experience you’ll bring
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
OR demonstrable equivalent deep understanding, experience, and capability. 4+ years of experience in software engineering at a large scale.Master or PhD degree in Computer Science (or related field) and 2+ years of experience in software engineering.
Strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Highly self motivated and eager to learn. Continuous growth and upskilling mindset. Always learning. Always growing.
Rich experience in designing a high quality, performant, and efficient solution for a medium/large complex level problem.
Rich experience and good understanding of CI/CD automation.
Experienced in combined engineering practices and agile development.
Rich experience and strong implementation skills using languages like Java, C#, or Golang including coding, automated testing, measurement and monitoring. Experienced in TDD approach.
Good understanding of data processing techniques, such as data pipeline/platform development, SQL, as well as relational, NoSQL, and data warehousing technologies.
Experienced in cloud technology, such as AWS, Azure, GCP as well as deployment topologies to ensure high availability and low latency processing
Passionate about understanding and solving customer/business problems.
Top Skills
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.
