Principal Software Development Engineer

About the Team/Role

As a Software Engineer on the WEX Benefits Technology team, you will work in a team that partners closely with Product Managers and customers to learn about the challenges employers face while navigating the competitive employee benefits landscape.  You will design solutions that solve problems in ways our customers love and work for our business.  You will build the highest quality software in the latest technologies and test driven development practices.

How you’ll make an impact

• 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.

• Advise Senior Leadership team on highly complex situations that impact our organization and then lead teams through the initiative, driving excellent quality results and achieving defined OKRs across the organization.

• Provide strategic thought leadership on business initiatives using deep technical and business industry expertise.

Experience you’ll bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field; OR demonstrable equivalent experience.

• A minimum of 15 years of experience in software engineering.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration 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

• Proficiency with Git version control and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with Agile development methodologies

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

• Track record of delivering complex projects on schedule

• Experience in writing performant stored procedures and functions

Technology Must-Haves:

• C#, Python (if applicable)

• 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)

• Kubernetes

• NoSQL databases

• Helm/ArgoCD

• Terraform

• GitHub Actions

• GraphQL

• Experience in developing Cloud-Native applications and services

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

• Generative AI and Agentic AI models and frameworks

• Azure