Highly Motivated Senior Software Engineer for Risk Engineering

7 days ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States WEX Full time
About the Opportunity

WEX, a pioneering global commerce platform and payments technology company, is on a mission to revolutionize the business landscape. We're seeking an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Risk Engineering team and contribute to the development of sophisticated products that empower a wide variety of customer businesses.

This is an exciting time to be in Risk Engineering at WEX, with a focus on strategic growth, industry compliance, and transactional security using cutting-edge anti-fraud systems. Our team develops innovative solutions leveraging big data analytics, AI/ML modeling, event-driven microservice architectures, cloud deployments, and Kubernetes orchestrations.

We have challenging problems with huge business impact potential, offering you the opportunity to lead, work on, and grow as a strong engineer who can solve tough problems, lead, generate big impacts, and grow fast. You'll collaborate with partners and stakeholders to learn about our customers' business and key challenges, design, code, test, deploy, and monitor sophisticated processes in a cloud-based architecture.

You'll also effectively develop and maintain CI/CD automation using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, perform software development with TDD and BDD, Microservice and event-oriented architectures, analyze data, existing systems, and processes independently, mentor and learn from your peers, and foster continuous learning of new technology within your team and organization.

Your Impact

  • Collaborate with partners and stakeholders to understand customer challenges.
  • Design and develop high-quality, efficient solutions for complex problems.
  • Develop and maintain CI/CD automation pipelines.
  • Implement IaC using Terraform and manage cloud-based infrastructure.
  • Perform TDD and BDD, and apply Microservice and event-oriented architectures.
  • Analyze data and existing systems to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement.
  • Mentor and learn from peers, fostering continuous learning and upskilling.
  • Participate in technical discussions and design high-quality, efficient systems with craftsmanship.
  • Independently complete work at medium to large complexity levels and seek reviews from senior engineers.
  • Proactively identify and communicate dependencies and provide constructive feedback to peers.

Your Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science and 2+ years of experience in software engineering or 4+ years of experience in software engineering at a large scale.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication, and collaboration skills.
  • High self-motivation and eagerness to learn, with a continuous growth and upskilling mindset.
  • Rich experience in designing high-quality, efficient solutions for complex problems.
  • Experience with CI/CD automation, combined engineering practice, and agile development.
  • Proficiency in languages like Java, C#, or Golang, including coding, automated testing, measurement, and monitoring.
  • Good understanding of data processing techniques, such as data pipeline/platform development, SQL, and DBs.
  • Experience with cloud technology, such as AWS and Azure.

What We Offer

A competitive salary of $120,000 - $150,000 per year, depending on location, experience, and qualifications.



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