WEX · 2 hours ago
Sr. Manager, Software Development
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$176K/yr - $204K/yr
10+ years expWEX Inc is seeking a Senior Manager with extensive industry experience to lead their software development teams. The role involves mentoring team members, driving strategic vision, collaborating with product management, and ensuring high-quality software delivery while promoting best practices and continuous improvement.
Financial ServicesFinTechPaymentsSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and manage software development team(s) to deliver high quality software products that delight our customers
Build the long-term vision, strategy for your space and drive it by influencing peers and senior leadership with a data-driven approach
Collaborate closely with Product Management to flesh out features and requirements to build roadmaps and execution plans for your teams
Build mechanisms to prioritize work, track progress, make the right judgement calls to achieve goals, and communicate status actively to stakeholders
Build/revise best practices, coding standards, design principles and coach team(s) to follow them to become more effective and efficient
Be a hands-on champion on using AI and lead teams to improve efficiencies and feature velocity
Write and review architecture documents for your space and present to peers and Sr. leadership to highlight how your team will innovate and transform current/new systems to be scalable and cost-effective
Support live applications, promote proactive monitoring, rapid incident response, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement
Analyze existing systems and processes to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements
Lead the engineering teams to drive automation, code integration and code deployment to reduce overhead and bring consistency in software delivery
Hire and grow your team’s talent by setting goals, coaching, conducting performance reviews, and support professional development for team members
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field; OR demonstrable equivalent experience
At least 10 years of experience in software engineering
At least 7 years of management or supervisory experience
Excellent leadership ability to motivate teams and drive results
Strategic thinking that aligns with business objectives and drives innovation
Strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication and collaboration skills
Passionate about keeping up with modern technologies and design
Java or C#
Relational dbs (Informix, Postgres, MySQL) or No SQL dbs (DynamoDB)
RESTful API design, event-driven design (Kafka, Kinesis)
Modern Web UI Frameworks and Libraries (Angular, React)
Container Orchestration and management (Kubernetes)
Designing and developing Cloud-Native applications and services (AWS)
Preferred
Understanding or expertise with Terraform, GitHub Actions
Generative AI and Agentic AI models and frameworks
Observability and application monitoring expertise
Benefits
Health, dental and vision insurances
Retirement savings plan
Paid time off
Health savings account
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Company
WEX
Wex is a financial technology service provider for fleet, travel and healthcare industries.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (22)
2024 (10)
2023 (12)
2022 (20)
2021 (14)
2020 (18)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$900MKey Investors
Warburg Pincus
2025-02-25Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2020-06-30Post Ipo Equity· $90M
2020-06-30Post Ipo Debt· $310M
Leadership Team
Melissa Smith
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Sachin Dhawan
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
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