Director, Software Engineering
WEX Open At a glance
Director-level Engineering Leadership role at WEX. Washington State · full-time · $199,300–$246,900 base.
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What you'll do
- Set the long-term direction for 10-4 by WEX, prioritizing customer needs with product and commercial partners
- Own system design across mobile apps and backend services, guiding projects from concept through launch and support
- Build engineering and architecture plans, coordinate cross-team initiatives, and track delivery against business goals
- Hire and develop engineers, manage career plans and feedback, and map team capacity across workstreams
- Create planning and review routines, share reusable practices across Mobility teams, and update senior leaders on progress
What you bring
- A master’s degree in computer science or software engineering
- At least ten years in software engineering, including four or more years leading engineering teams
- Practical mobile development experience with native or cross-platform approaches
- Experience building distributed systems and validating their accuracy and performance
- Ability to automate code scaffolding and test creation using prior execution data and generative AI
Who this fits
This director-level role suits a hands-on engineering leader who can guide mobile and backend work while hiring, managing, and growing a team. The engineering group is distributed across the United States and Brazil. The role is based in Washington State.
From the employer
About the Team/Role
We are seeking a seasoned Manager of Engineering in the WEX Mobility Engineering organization. This role will lead the engineering team for our 10-4 by WEX product that caters fuel discounts and mobility payments solutions to owner operator customers. The development team spans across USA and Brazil. WEX Mobility products enable credit issuance to fleet companies and their employees, and owner-operator truckers in the form of WEX Credit Cards, which can be used in fueling stations and select other merchants. At WEX, we provide fleet managers and operators with the ability to configure spend controls that restrict fleet members to use their card only at preconfigured merchants and for configured product families.
How you’ll make an impact:
Leadership & Strategy:
- Develop, drive, and execute a long-term vision and strategy for the 10-4 by WEX product.
- Drive, prioritize, and work backwards from customer requirements in collaboration with product and commercial partners.
- Maintain a well-thought-out roadmap and create clear, interdependent OKRs with product and commercial teams.
- Establish a robust engineering roadmap to maintain clarity and motivation within the team.
Technical Ownership & Execution:
- Be as a hands-on technical leader with full ownership of systems design across mobile applications and backend microservices.
- Drive end-to-end technical project execution, from initial concept through deployment and ongoing support.
- Develop and track the progress of the architectural roadmap, aligning with business objectives and industry best practices.
- Drive cross-team engineering projects as a single-threaded owner (STO).
- Implement mechanisms to reduce time-to-market using evolving engineering approaches, continuously challenging the status quo.
- Establish measurement of metrics-driven development productivity across the team.
Team Development & Culture:
- Hire, lead, manage, retain, and grow high-performance software engineers through active career growth planning.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, empowerment, and continuous learning.
- Maintain career growth plans and provide monthly and quarterly feedback for individual progress.
- Maintain a granular resource map of developers and their month-over-month work streams.
Collaboration & Efficiency:
- Collaborate with other Mobility engineering teams to reuse development practices and components, reducing duplication.
- Drive effective monthly and weekly mechanisms for planning, executing, and auditing workstreams.
- Partner with product and commercial (sales) leads to maintain a well-thought-out roadmap.
- Comfortably present, influence, and communicate to the senior leadership team. Provide regular updates and insights to your manager (Director) on the challenges and opportunities.
Experience you'll bring:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering with 4+ years of engineering management experience.
- Hands-on experience in mobile development (native iOS/Android or cross-platform frameworks like React Native or Flutter).
- Expertise in developing large-scale distributed systems and proven experience in testing and validating solutions for accuracy and performance
- Ability to automate generating scaffolding code, unit tests, and integration tests using past execution data and generative AI
- 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.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience scaling mobile apps and backend services to thousands of users.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization.
- Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies.
- Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a scheme/network.
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