WEX is seeking a Front-End Software Development Engineer 2 to join their NAM Experiences team. The role involves designing and developing high-performance web applications that enhance customer experiences for large fleets and transportation companies.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance web applications
- Build and evolve shared component libraries and design-system assets used across multiple Mobility applications
- Work with Senior Engineers to co-develop systems designs, and drive alignment across teams
- Write automated unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, concurrency tests, load/performance tests
- Work with tech leads and senior engineers to identify bottlenecks and tech debt; drive incremental scalability, and stability improvements
- Utilize automation frameworks for testing, monitoring, auto-scaling, continuous integration and deployment to reduce time to market
- Partner with Product, Design, and UX to deliver high-quality user experiences
- Contribute to code reviews (comment, approve, seek revisions, merge), and follow engineering best practices, and continuously raise the quality bar
- Troubleshoot production issues, devise fixes, author root cause analysis documents, and ensure lasting performance and reliability
- Maintain robust documentation (design docs, run books, change management docs, and readiness plans)
- Provide live-site production support, ensuring rapid incident resolution, and driving continuous improvement
- Gain hands-on experience with automation and AI-driven engineering solutions
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related
- 2-5 years of professional experience in software engineering
- Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design, and problem-solving skills
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as Angular (preferred) or React
- Strong skills in TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML5, or CSS3/SASS
- Experience integrating front-end applications with RESTful or GraphQL APIs
- Understanding of web security fundamentals including authentication, authorization, and data protection
- Familiarity with Git, automated testing frameworks, and CI/CD workflows
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with a focus on user experience and maintainability
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, and a collaborative and empathetic mindset
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related
- 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering
- Experience with micro-frontends or module federation
- Familiarity with relational or NoSQL databases; e.g. SQL, MongoDB
- Exposure to backend technologies such as Java (Preferred) or Node.js
- Experience with cloud-native environments, including Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS/GCP/Azure
- Experience building and scaling design systems, with strong knowledge of accessibility (WCAG), and performance optimization