Software Engineer

This is a remote position. For consideration, one must live within 30 miles of the following company HUBS:

• Chicago, IL
• Bay Area ( CA )
• Dallas, TX

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About the Team

At WEX, we simplify the business of running a business. Our WEX Benefits solutions reduce complexity and help manage costs of benefits administration for our clients and partners. We are looking for passionate technologists, collaborators, and problem solvers to join our Benefits Technology team as we build the next generation of employer benefits solutions and services.

How you’ll make an impact

Team Collaboration

• Support applications both during and outside business hours.
• Resolve issues and Service Requests quickly and efficiently.
• Support production deployments, which occur on evenings and weekends. Contribute to post-deployment application validation. Quickly troubleshoot, evaluate, and resolve any issues that arise.
• Participate in and lead team conversations, meetings and feature discussions.

Software Design and Architecture

• Design application architecture. Others use your designs as examples to use from.
• Develop solutions that can be performant, scalable, consistent, and supportable that can be accomplished within the available scope, time and budget.
• Perform design and code reviews within the team and across other teams to ensure implementations adhere to goals, industry standards and best practices.
• Deliver software that meets requirements by applying knowledge of the product area to provide the best long-term solutions.
• Ensure code is testable at all levels (unit, integration, and end-to-end).
• Increase unit test coverage.
• Review requirements to provide meaningful, timely and critical feedback to improve them.
• Ensure requirements are feasible, implementation is efficient, and the design is aligned with the technical direction of WEX.
• Estimate and prioritize project requests.
• Assist with internal partner initiatives and projects.
• Work with Architects, Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Business Analysts to collaborate on design and delivery decisions.

Project Implementation

• Identify and document performance improvements and technical debt.
• Reduce the risk of security threats to WEX Health through a strong understanding of security best practices and close collaboration with Security Architects.
• Identify new threats and vulnerabilities and work with Architects to evolve mitigation strategies.
• Efficiently and effectively implement solutions in all environments, resulting in an increased level of throughput. Others use your code as an example to learn from.

Product Proficiency

• Demonstrate expert level understanding of your team’s product domain and understand multiple product domains outside of your current team.
• Act as an internal and external subject matter expert on WEX systems.
• Able to describe application behavior and technology outside of the Development department in both a technical and business communication style.

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.

Required Qualifications:

● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

● A minimum 7 years of experience in software engineering with a Bachelor's degree

● Will consider 10 years of experience in software engineering without a degree.

● Strong problem-solving and analytical 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

● At least 2 years experience with Git version control and at least 2+ years experience with CI/CD pipelines.

● At least 3 years experience with Modern RDBMS (i.e. MS SQL, Postgres).

● Familiarity with Agile work development methodologies.

● Track record of delivering complex projects on schedule

● Experience in writing performant stored procedures and functions.

● Experience in developing Cloud-Native applications and services.

Technology Must-Haves:

● C#

● 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)

Technology Nice-To-Have or Dedicate to Learning Quickly:

● Kubernetes

● Helm/ArgoCD

● Terraform

● GitHub Actions

● NoSQL databases

● GraphQL

● Azure