Senior Manager, Software Engineering

WEX is seeking a seasoned Sr. Manager of Engineering to lead the engineering team for their OTR APIs product. This role involves developing a long-term vision and strategy for vehicle management and OTR payments, while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration within the team.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, drive, and execute a long-term vision and strategy for the WEX OTR APIs for vehicle management and OTR payments (card issuance, controls, lifecycle, transactions)
• Be a hands-on technical leader, and own and implement systems designs of API platform, and make high judgement design calls such as choosing between RESTful APIs and gRPC APIs depending on use case
• Develop and track progress of OTR APIs architectural roadmap, aligning with business objectives and industry best practices. Maintain a granular resource map of developers and their month-over-month work streams
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, empowerment, and continuous learning
• Continuously challenge the status quo and implement mechanisms to reduce time-to-market using evolving engineering approaches
• Collaborate with other OTR engineering teams to reuse development practices and components to reduce duplication
• Drive cross-team engineering projects as a single-threaded-owner (STO)
• Hire, lead, manage, retain, and grow high-performance software engineers using active career growth planning
• Work closely with product and commercial partners to drive, prioritize, and work backwards from the customer requirements to develop modern API suite
• Drive effective monthly and weekly mechanisms to plan, execute, and audit workstreams
• Partner with product and commercial (sales) leads to maintain a well-thought out roadmap, and create clear and inter-dependent OKRs with these partners
• Establish a robust and clear engineering roadmap to maintain clarity and motivation for the engineering team. Maintain career growth plans and provide monthly and quarterly feedback for individuals’ continual progress
• Establish measurement of metrics-driven dev productivity across OTR APIs team
• Comfortably present, influence, and communicate to the senior leadership team. Provide regular updates and insights to your manager (Director) on the challenges and opportunities within the OTR domain

Requirements:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 8 years of experience in software engineering with 4 years of engineering management experience
• 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
• Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies
• Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a scheme/network
• Experience working on closed-loop card systems