Senior Java Developer

About the Team/Role 

As a Senior Developer, you are expected to work in an Integrated engineering model, that means that you will be responsible for designing, creating and testing new applications that fit with our team standards to execute and deliver projects efficiently, on time and with the desired quality.

Wex is a leading and growing global provider of payment processing, information management and fleet card payment solutions. We hire people who share our passion for continuous innovation and unparalleled client service.

The Gateway is a mission critical, payment processing solution built by a small, agile team. It is Java based and becoming cloud-native by implementing key features as micro services. The Gateway team is pushing the frontiers of payments technology and is in the process of operationalizing and scaling the product.

Our team works hard, covers for one another, and maintains work-life balance. We own our results and we take pride in ownership of everything we do.

How you’ll make an impact

Changing the world isn’t easy, and we have a lot of work ahead of us. From new product

features, to automation, to supporting micro services, there are a lot of opportunities for us to grow, and we’re looking for great people to come along for the ride.

A highly motivated software engineer who loves working on small, high performing teams.

• A team player that is open to new ideas and technologies and enjoys solving problems in multidisciplinary environments.

•  Collaborative, a solid communicator, and work well with teams and stakeholders.

• Someone who cares deeply for team results, checks your ego at the door, and takes pride in owning results.

•  A professional who can advocate strongly for their position and still be 100% behind a team's decisions.

• Pick up new technology and switch between tech stacks with a minimum of fuss

• Are comfortable working on cloud-based solutions such as micro services, lambda, EKS, EC2, etc.

• Are a solid architect/designer/developer.

•  Have worked on agile teams to deliver software iteratively

•  Comfortable balancing the need to move fast with the realities of working in a highly regulated space like payments

•  Passionate about what you do and desire to apply your skills to produce value-add results.

• Enjoy eating and hanging out with your team in person and virtually

Experience you’ll bring

• Design, develop and maintain current and new applications

• Design, develop and maintain automated tests.

• Identify and implement CI/CD

• Expand the team’s knowledge base on automation

• Support and mentor other engineers

• Bachelor Degree in a technology related field or equivalent experience

• Solid of development experience in Java 8 (or above), including experience with Spring Boot

• Solid experience writing unit test

• Solid experience with Cloud-based applications and services in AWS, GCP or Azure.

• Docker

• Continuous integration/continuous delivery

• Solid experience with software development lifecycle.

Plus

• Kubernetes

• Logging, Metrics and monitoring with DataDog or similar solutions.

• ADO

• Helm

• Working with Agile methodologies

• Test automation tools, such as Cucumber

• Spring Webflux

• Gradle

• Atlassian tools like Confluence and JIRA

• Experience with designing and architecting applications

• Experience in critical applications

• Linux

• Experience in payments platforms