Software Development Engineer
Wex
About the Team/Role
You'll join a high-performing engineering team building our modern payments platform, currently powering corporate payments with plans to expand across all lines of business. You'll work on an event-driven, microservices architecture in Kubernetes, using Terraform, Kafka, and CI/CD to enable true continuous delivery. You'll embrace AI-assisted engineering to improve quality, speed, and your own developer experience.
As a senior engineer, you'll tackle complex technical problems, ship production code regularly, and raise the bar for engineering quality across the team. You'll mentor others, contribute to architectural decisions, and take ownership of features end-to-end. Your work directly impacts WEX's ability to process payments reliably and securely at scale.
Who This Role Is For
This role is for engineers who want to do meaningful work on hard problems — not just ticket-takers who wait to be told what to build.
We're looking for someone who:
Takes ownership of problems, not just tasks
Writes clean, testable code and cares about doing things properly
Can work across the stack when needed, but has depth in backend systems
Communicates clearly and collaborates well with product and other engineers
Wants to keep learning and isn't precious about their own code
How You'll Make an Impact
Technical Delivery
Design, build, and ship features end-to-end — from understanding requirements through to production deployment and monitoring
Write production-quality C#/.NET code with appropriate test coverage
Build and maintain services that process payments reliably at scale
Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making
Use AI-assisted development tools effectively to accelerate your work
Quality & Operations
Own the quality of what you ship — write tests, monitor production, fix issues
Participate in code reviews that improve the codebase and help others grow
Reduce tech debt and improve developer experience where you see opportunities
Support operational excellence through observability, alerting, and incident response
Collaboration & Growth
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, code review, and knowledge sharing
Work closely with Product to understand customer problems and shape solutions
Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Continuously improve your craft and stay current with modern engineering practices
Non-Negotiable Requirements
You write clean, well-tested C#/.NET code — this is your primary language
You've built and operated distributed systems or microservices in production
You understand event-driven architectures and messaging patterns
You've worked with CI/CD pipelines and understand modern DevOps practices
You take ownership — you don't just write code and throw it over the wall
Experience You'll Bring
5+ years of software development experience
Strong experience with .NET/C# in a production environment
Experience with cloud-native development (Kubernetes, containerisation, infrastructure as code)
Familiarity with event streaming, distributed systems, and data-intensive applications
Experience with modern frontend technologies (Angular, TypeScript) is a plus
Financial services or payments experience preferred but not required
Technology Stack
You'll work with (and should have experience in most of):
.NET/C# and TypeScript
Angular
AWS
PostgreSQL
Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, containerisation
Event streaming with Kafka
CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
AI-assisted developer tools
...and more. We're not short on interesting tech to work with.
What You'll Get
Work on systems that process real payments at scale — your code matters
A team that values quality, ownership, and continuous improvement
Opportunity to work with modern tech and shape how we build
Autonomy to solve problems your way, with support when you need it
An inclusive environment where your ideas are heard