Specialist Java/Golang Developer

About the the role

As a Specialist Developer on our team, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our software by driving the planning, design, development, and testing of cutting-edge applications and systems. You’ll work with a modern tech stack including Go, MongoDB, and AWS to enhance existing platforms and spearhead new projects. We're looking for someone who is passionate about coding, thrives on solving complex challenges, and enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams. If you’re detail-oriented, committed to delivering high-quality solutions, and excited about adopting new technologies and innovative development practices, we’d love to have you on board.

How you’ll make an impact :

• A highly motivated engineer who loves working on small, high performing teams 

• Collaborative, a solid communicator, and work well with your team and stakeholders 

• Someone who cares deeply for team results, checks your ego at the door, and takes pride in owning results

• A mentor who is capable at guiding the technical development of less experienced developers at the functional, component architectural levels

• A professional who can advocate strongly for positions and still be 100% behind team decisions even if they don’t go your way

• Comfortable balancing the need to move fast with the realities of working in a highly regulated space like payments

• Pick up new technology and switch between tech stacks with a minimum of fuss

• Are comfortable working on front-end web code, back end services, data stores, and infrastructure systems

• Are a solid engineer with the desire and ability to learn how to design scalable, maintainable, and resilient modern software architectures

• Have experience writing modern software deployed in the cloud

• Are comfortable with encryption schemes, modern APIs, and front-end frameworks

• Have worked on agile teams to deliver software iteratively

Experience you’ll bring:

• Significant and demonstrable development experience

• Experience with Golang or Java, MongoDB, AWS, and Terraform

• Demonstrable experience developing internal/external web services

• Demonstrable experience writing well-formed unit, component, and integration tests and have an in-depth understanding of the test pyramid

• Demonstrable working understanding of at least one modern web framework

• Demonstrable working understanding of NoSQL and SQL datastores

• BDD knowledge; 

• Can demonstrate critical thinking skills through past accomplishments;

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills;

• On projects or open-source work you have contributed to in your own time

• Experience with systems engineering and automation

If you are looking for a growing career – come be part of WEX today!