Key skills
AngularReactREST APIsC#PythonDockerModern RDBMSASP.NETAgile methodologiesContinuous improvementCSQLNoSQLKafkaGraphQLTDDBDDAzureTerraformKubernetesGitHub ActionsHelmArgoCDPostgresMySQLRESTfulGitGitHubVersion ControlAgileCI/CDCommunicationCollaborationOWASP
About this role
WEX is a company that simplifies the business of running a business, and they are seeking a Junior Software Engineer to join their Benefits Technology team. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, designing solutions, and supporting live applications to enhance employer benefits solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to learn about our customers biggest challenges
- Measure, inspect, and drive decisions using data
- Design, test, code, and instrument new solutions
- Strengthen and drive our engineering process with TDD and BDD, Microservice and Vertical Slice Architectures
- Support live applications, promote proactive monitoring, rapid incident response, and continuous improvement
- Analyze existing systems and processes to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements
- Mentor and learn from your peers, foster continuous learning within your team and organization
- Become a subject matter expert in your functional area and best practices
- Assess unique circumstances and apply creative problem-solving techniques to resolve issues or suggest various approaches
- Independently complete work and proactively review with others
- Highly self-motivated, take ownership of your work, actively seek out ways to contribute, and require minimal supervision
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- At least 2 years of experience in software engineering
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Passionate about keeping up with modern technologies and design
- Strong proficiency in Angular and/or React
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs
- Proven track record of writing comprehensive unit tests and test suites
- Strong understanding of software security principles and OWASP guidelines
- Proficiency with Git version control and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
- Track record of delivering complex projects on schedule
- Experience in writing performant stored procedures and functions
- Experience in developing Cloud-Native applications and services
- C#, Python (if applicable)
- Docker
- Modern RDBMS (i.e. MS SQL, Postgres, MySQL)
- ASP.NET RESTful API design
- Kafka / event-driven design
- Modern Web UI Frameworks and Libraries (i.e. Angular, React)
- Kubernetes
- Helm/ArgoCD
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- NoSQL databases
- GraphQL
- Azure