Software Engineer

WEX is a company that focuses on providing payment solutions. They are seeking a Software Engineer who will contribute to team success by understanding technical areas and processes, supporting applications, and collaborating on software design and architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Support applications both during and outside business hours
• Research issues and Service Requests timely to resolution, independently and efficiently
• Engage in discussions and propose solutions
• Support production deployments, which occur on evenings and weekends
• Contribute to post-deployment application validation
• Troubleshoot, evaluate, and resolve any issues that arise
• Participate in team meetings and feature discussions
• Create basic designs for new and existing features
• Develop solutions, with guidance from teammates, that can be performant, scalable, consistent, and supportable
• Participate in code reviews within the team to ensure implementations adhere to goals, standards, and best practices
• Deliver software that meets requirements by learning the product area to provide the best long-term solutions
• Write code that is testable at all levels (unit, integration, and end-to-end)
• Understand unit test coverage and add to it
• Review requirements and provide meaningful and timely feedback to improve them
• Ask questions to ensure requirements are feasible, implementation is efficient, and the design is aligned with the technical direction set by your team and Architects
• Participate in estimation and prioritization of project requests
• Build relationships with Architects, Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Business Analysts to collaborate on design and delivery decisions
• Contribute to the prioritization of performance improvements and technical debt
• Understand common security vulnerabilities and best practices defined by Architects to reduce risk of security threats
• Design and develop technical solutions in all environments, resulting in an increased level of throughput
• Understand your team’s product domain
• Basic knowledge of one other product domain
• Able to discuss application behavior and technology outside of the Development department in both a technical and business communication style
• Step into other roles to ensure project deadlines are met
• Serve as a mentor with an ability to onboard new Software Engineers ensuring they have the proper tools and knowledge to become productive quickly
• Provide technical and domain guidance to internal team members
• Lead features or components through the full software deployment lifecycle, including integration, customer feedback, release, and support phases
• Recommend ways to increase development efficiency
• Perform effectively in a cross-functional team environment to ensure successful execution and delivery of project commitments
• Demonstrate expertise in a domain as evidenced by others seeking your peer reviews, advice, and problem solving
• Communicate priorities and dependencies across teams to ensure successful execution and delivery of commitments
• Build relationships with Business Analysts, Quality Assurance Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, Support, Management, Configuration Management, Database Administrators, etc

Requirements:

• 2 - 4 years of relevant experience typical in this role
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• Experience with tools and programming languages defined by Development Managers specific to their teams
• Basic knowledge in Software Development Fundamentals and Process, Design, Documentation, Testing, and tools
• Effective in distributed team environment
• Strong oral and written communication skills