About the Team/Role
We are seeking a seasoned Manager of Engineering in the WEX Mobility Engineering organization. This role will lead the engineering team for our 10-4 by WEX product that caters fuel discounts and mobility payments solutions to owner operator customers. The development team spans across USA and Brazil. 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:
Leadership & Strategy:
- Develop, drive, and execute a long-term vision and strategy for the 10-4 by WEX product.
- Drive, prioritize, and work backwards from customer requirements in collaboration with product and commercial partners.
- Maintain a well-thought-out roadmap and create clear, interdependent OKRs with product and commercial teams.
- Establish a robust engineering roadmap to maintain clarity and motivation within the team.
Technical Ownership & Execution:
- Be as a hands-on technical leader with full ownership of systems design across mobile applications and backend microservices.
- Drive end-to-end technical project execution, from initial concept through deployment and ongoing support.
- Develop and track the progress of the architectural roadmap, aligning with business objectives and industry best practices.
- Drive cross-team engineering projects as a single-threaded owner (STO).
- Implement mechanisms to reduce time-to-market using evolving engineering approaches, continuously challenging the status quo.
- Establish measurement of metrics-driven development productivity across the team.
Team Development & Culture:
- Hire, lead, manage, retain, and grow high-performance software engineers through active career growth planning.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, empowerment, and continuous learning.
- Maintain career growth plans and provide monthly and quarterly feedback for individual progress.
- Maintain a granular resource map of developers and their month-over-month work streams.
Collaboration & Efficiency:
- Collaborate with other Mobility engineering teams to reuse development practices and components, reducing duplication.
- Drive effective monthly and weekly mechanisms for planning, executing, and auditing workstreams.
- Partner with product and commercial (sales) leads to maintain a well-thought-out roadmap.
- Comfortably present, influence, and communicate to the senior leadership team. Provide regular updates and insights to your manager (Director) on the challenges and opportunities.
Experience you'll bring:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering with 4+ years of engineering management experience.
- Hands-on experience in mobile development (native iOS/Android or cross-platform frameworks like React Native or Flutter).
- Expertise in developing large-scale distributed systems and proven experience in testing and validating solutions for accuracy and performance
- Ability to automate generating scaffolding code, unit tests, and integration tests using past execution data and generative AI
- Strong understanding of security and compliance requirements in cloud and data environments.
- Excellent leadership, team-building, and dynamic decision-making skills.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience scaling mobile apps and backend services to thousands of users.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization.
- Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies.
- Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a scheme/network.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years of engineering management experience
- Hands-on experience in mobile development using native iOS, Android, React Native, or Flutter
- Expertise developing large-scale distributed systems
- Experience testing and validating solutions for accuracy and performance
- Ability to automate scaffolding code, unit tests, and integration tests using execution data and generative AI
- Strong understanding of security and compliance requirements in cloud and data environments
- Excellent leadership, team-building, and dynamic decision-making skills
- Ability to work effectively amid ambiguity in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience scaling mobile applications and backend services to thousands of users
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization
- Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies
- Experience building credit card products or solutions in a payment scheme or network
WEX Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave offerings are portrayed as a standout, with generous PTO and additional paid time for volunteering. Time-off flexibility is also positioned as a meaningful part of the overall rewards experience.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are presented as strong, including a 401(k) match that is described as competitive. This element appears to materially strengthen the total rewards package even when cash compensation feels less compelling.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Variable compensation is sometimes framed positively through bonuses and uncapped earning potential in sales-oriented roles. Stock options are also cited as an additional reward component that can improve perceived total compensation.
WEX Inc. Insights
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.
