Staff Software Engineer, Risk

About the Team/Role

WEX is an innovative global commerce platform and payments technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, to simplify the business of doing business for customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love and care about. We are journeying to build a consistent world-class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer-focused innovations across all our strategic initiatives, including big data, AI, and Risk.

We are looking for a highly motivated and highly potential Staff Engineer to join our Risk Engineering team to make big business impacts and grow your career. 

This is a really exciting time to be in risk technology at WEX. We are hiring for a cross-functional initiative with the goal of creating a modern, cloud-based technology ecosystem to allow WEX to be more nimble, faster to market, and open to emerging business opportunities, while keeping regulations, policy, and risk mitigation top of mind. We are in the process of building a powerful platform for risk operation & management, credit underwriting & management, finance risk operation & management, on top of our Data Platform and AI Platform, leveraging open source technologies as well as vendor platforms and tools.

The vision of this integrated risk platform is to enable streamlining how WEX interacts with customers - from creating accounts, maintaining and expanding relationships, and monitoring for good health and risk through a number of vectors. With strong risk control and management, this platform will allow Wex to more effectively grow our business and customer base in a much faster and safer way together with improved customer experience. We develop and leverage advanced technologies from the industry to ensure our efficiency and effectiveness, including modern big data technologies and AI technologies. We use agile development with the combined engineering approach and the product operating model.

We have challenging problems with huge business impact potentials for you to lead, work on and grow. We also have a strong team with highly talented and skillful engineers and leaders to support, guide, coach you.

If you dream to be a strong engineer who can solve tough problems, lead, generate big impacts, and grow fast, this is a great opportunity for you!

How you’ll make an impact

• Collaborate with partners/stakeholders to learn about our customers’ business and key challenges.

• Design, test, code, and instrument new data products/systems/platforms/pipelines at large complexity level with simple and high quality solutions.

• Effectively measure, inspect, and drive decisions using data.

• Effectively develop and maintain CI/CD automation using tools such as GitHub Actions.

• Effectively implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, including provisioning and managing cloud-based data infrastructure.

• Effectively perform software development with TDD and BDD, Microservice and event oriented Architectures with high efficiency, reliability, quality, and scalability.

• Support live Risk platforms/systems, promote proactive monitoring including high data quality, rapid incident response, and continuous improvement.

• Effectively analyze data, existing systems and processes independently to effectively identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements.

• Mentor your peers, foster continuous learning of new technology within your team and organization.

• Attract high talents from industry to your team; help in interviews and provide quality and timely feedback.

• Role model at our team’s process and best practices, and apply them to given tasks with help from peers and your manager. Proactively understand customer/business problems you try to solve with these tasks, and ensure your design and implementation can actually solve these problems in an effective, reliable, and sustainable way.

• Partner with, assist, or lead your peers on completing complex tasks.

• Lead a scrum team in a hands-on way with proper agile development practices, and ensure the high quality and timely development and delivery that solve target problems effectively.

• Own large complex components or systems/platforms.

• Participate and lead technical discussions.

• Very efficiently design and build high quality and performed systems with craftsmanship.

• Independently & productively complete work at medium/large complexity level and proactively seek reviews from senior engineers on your work to ensure high quality

• Proactively identify and communicate dependencies.

• Proactively review work from peers and provide constructive feedback/comments.

• Build reliable, secure, high quality, and efficient Risk platform, systems, and tools.

• Become a deep 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.

• Use data and/or AI technology or tools in your design and development for high productivity and better solution quality. Influence your peers in this area.

• Lead initiatives for your team by using your wide-ranging experience and deep technical knowledge to make decisions on method and approach to solving issues.

• Hold yourself and your team accountable for delivering quality results using defined OKRs.

• Interact with Senior Managers to discuss plans, results, and advise on complex matters.

Experience you’ll bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
  OR demonstrable equivalent deep understanding, experience, and capability.

• Master or PhD degree in Computer Science (or related field) and 5+ years of experience in software engineering or 7+ years of experience in software engineering at a large scale. Experience in Risk system/platform development.

• A technically deep, innovative, empathetic, and passionate technical leader able to act and deliver to the business needs.

• Very strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Highly self motivated and eager to learn. Always watching out for new technologies and adopting appropriate ones for improving your productivities as well as the quality & effectiveness of your deliverables. E.g. good at leveraging GenAI technology and tools for increasing your work productivity and quality, as well as building innovative products/systems for your customers. Lead the team in this regard.

• Rich experience in designing a simple, high quality, performed, and efficient solution for a large complex level problem.

• Rich experience and good understanding of CI/CD automation.

• Rich experience in combined engineering practice and agile development.

• Very rich experience and strong implementation skills using languages like Java, C#, Golang, & Python, including coding, automated testing, measurement and monitoring with a high productivity/throughput. Experienced in TDD approach.

• Experience and with good understanding of data processing techniques, such as data pipeline/platform development, SQL, and DBs are a big plus.

• Experienced in cloud technology, such as AWS and Azure.

• Extensive experience in the risk area, including architecturing and developing Risk platforms.

• Good understanding and experience in Data and ML/AI, as well as applying those to solve risk problems.

• An understanding of and experience in payment organizations is a plus. 

• Good understanding of data warehousing and dimensional modeling, etc.

• Passionate about understanding and solving customer/business problems.

• Understanding of data governance is a plus.

The base pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay rates will vary and will be based on various factors, such as your qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. Base pay is one component of WEX's total compensation package. Most sales positions are eligible for commission under the terms of an applicable plan. Non-sales roles are typically eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus based on their role and applicable plan. WEX's comprehensive and market competitive benefits are designed to support your personal and professional well-being. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurances, retirement savings plan, paid time off, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more. For more information, check out the "About Us" section.Pay Range: $134,000.00 - $178,000.00