Director of Software Engineering

WEX is a global leader in financial technology solutions, based in Portland, Maine, United States, with over 7,000 WEXers distributed in over 40 countries. They are seeking a seasoned Director of Engineering to lead an engineering team for core services for Mobility products, focusing on developing and executing a long-term vision and strategy for WEX Mobility Core services.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze various Mobility products to outline cross-cutting and core capabilities to develop, drive and execute a long-term vision and strategy for WEX Mobility Core services
• Define and implement a comprehensive architectural roadmap for Mobility Core services, aligning with business objectives and industry best practices
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, empowerment, and continuous learning within the engineering teams
• Continuously challenge the status quo and implement mechanisms to reduce time-to-market using efficient engineering methods
• Collaborate with other Mobility engineering teams to reuse development practices and components to reduce duplication
• Craft, lead, manage, and grow high-performance engineering teams. Hire, coach, promote, and retain high performers to achieve WEX goals
• Work closely with product and commercial partners to drive, prioritize, and work backwards from the customer requirements and exceed expected outcomes
• Drive effective monthly, weekly, and quarterly mechanisms to plan, execute, and audit workstreams
• 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 Mobility engineering team
• Comfortably present, influence, and communicate to senior leadership team. Provide regular updates and insights to senior leadership on the challenges and opportunities within the Mobility Payments domain

Requirements:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• 10 years of experience in software engineering with 5 years of engineering management experience managing individual contributors and managers
• Expertise in microservices, REST apis and deployment using cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure
• 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
• Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a scheme/network
• Experience building or managing fleet systems
• Experience working on card payments using ISO8583
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams, and ability to craft self-managing distributed teams