Software Engineer, Data Platform

Posted 2 Days Ago
8 Locations
Remote
66K-87K Annually
Entry level
Fintech • Payments
The Role
As an entry-level Software Engineer on the DART team, you'll work on developing platforms for data transformation, AI application enablement, and risk management. Your responsibilities include collaboration with stakeholders, mastering DevOps tools, and applying modern development practices to enhance customer experiences through innovative solutions.
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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.

We're seeking an ambitious and driven entry-level Engineer to join our Data, AI, and Risk Technology (DART) team at WEX—a group at the forefront of innovation, delivering transformative business impact while fostering exceptional career growth opportunities.

Why Join DART at WEX?

At WEX, we empower diverse customer businesses with cutting-edge solutions. The data generated from our sophisticated products and platforms is rich, complex, and one of our most valuable assets. Coupled with rapidly evolving AI technologies, this data unlocks unparalleled opportunities to revolutionize our products, elevate customer experiences, and enhance operational efficiency.

How you'll make an impact:

As a member of the DART team, you’ll be at the center of:

  • Data Transformation: Developing advanced platforms and tools to process, enrich, and optimize core company data, ensuring it’s easy and efficient to use—unlocking value for both customers and internal teams.

  • AI Enablement: Building systems that streamline AI application development and operations, helping us stay ahead in a fast-paced tech landscape.

  • Risk Management: Empowering the business with tools to identify and prevent fraud, optimize credit decisions, and safeguard our payment systems.

  • Our team leverages modern big data, AI, and risk technologies in a dynamic agile environment. You’ll collaborate with talented engineers and leaders who are passionate about innovation, growth, and making a meaningful impact.

Why this role?

  • Challenging Problems: Work on impactful, high-stakes challenges that will accelerate your technical and professional growth.

  • Supportive Environment: Learn and thrive with guidance from industry experts who are dedicated to your success.

  • Career Growth: Develop into a strong engineer capable of tackling tough problems and driving big outcomes in a thriving, fast-paced field.

If you aspire to become a standout engineer and make a difference while advancing your career, this is the opportunity for you! Come build the future with DART at WEX.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Purpose: Work closely with partners and stakeholders to understand customer challenges and create impactful solutions.

  • Build & Refine Skills: Gain hands-on experience in design, testing, coding, instrumentation, and production monitoring of systems with small to medium complexity.

  • Data-Driven Insights: Learn to effectively measure and analyze data to inform strategic decisions and identify opportunities for improvement.

  • Master DevOps Tools: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions to streamline deployment and automation.

  • Innovate with IaC: Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools like Terraform to manage and provision scalable, cloud-based infrastructure for data, AI, and risk applications.

  • Modern Development Practices: Practice software development using TDD, BDD, and microservice or event-driven architectures for cutting-edge solutions.

  • Maintain Excellence: Support live systems, ensuring high data quality, proactive monitoring, rapid incident response, and continuous improvements to stability and performance.

  • Drive Innovation: Analyze data and systems to uncover bottlenecks and improve efficiency, scalability, and functionality.

  • Learn & Grow: Continuously advance your technical expertise by learning from peers and adopting new technologies to solve real-world problems.

  • Deliver Impact: Understand customer and business needs to design and implement reliable, scalable, and effective solutions.

  • Collaborate with Experts: Partner with team members to brainstorm, build, and troubleshoot complex problems.

  • Seek Excellence: Proactively request reviews from senior engineers to ensure high-quality outputs.

  • Scale Systems: Learn to build secure, high-performance, and user-friendly platforms and tools for data, AI, and risk technologies at scale.

  • Master the Tech Stack: Gain expertise in key tools, languages, and platforms, including integrating with WEX systems and adhering to engineering best practices.

Experience you'll bring:

Required

  • Educational Foundation: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

  • Coding Expertise: Proficiency in programming languages like Java, C#, Golang, or Python, with experience in coding, automated testing, and system monitoring.

  • Solution-Oriented: Ability to design robust solutions for small to medium-scale problems or system components.

  • Problem-Solving Prowess: Strong analytical skills and a passion for tackling challenges with innovative solutions.

  • Excellent Communication: Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills to effectively work across teams.

Preferred

  • Self-Driven Learner: Highly motivated, curious, and eager to explore new technologies and apply them to enhance productivity and deliverables. For example, proactively utilizing GenAI tools to streamline workflows and build cutting-edge solutions.

  • Passion for Innovation: Enthusiasm for working with big data technologies, AI/ML, risk analysis, and cloud infrastructure.

  • Customer-Centric: A strong desire to solve customer and business problems through thoughtful and effective solutions.

  • Valuable Knowledge (a Plus): Familiarity with data ingestion, cleaning, processing, enrichment, SQL, data warehouses, ELT, AI/ML, anomaly detection, and related tools.

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: $66,000.00 - $87,000.00

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Terraform
The Company
HQ: Portland, ME
4,900 Employees
On-site Workplace

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.

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