Java Tech Lead

About The Role
As an Engineering Team Lead you will be responsible for managing a team while designing and creating new applications that fit with our team standards to execute and deliver projects efficiently and on time.

We're the Gateway team at Wex.

Wex is a leading and growing global provider of payment processing, information management and fleet card payment solutions. We hire people who share our passion for continuous innovation and unparalleled client service.

The Gateway is a mission critical, payment processing solution built by a small, agile team. It is Java based and becoming cloud-native by implementing key features as micro services. The Gateway team is pushing the frontiers of payments technology and is in the process of operationalizing and scaling the product.

Our team works hard, covers for one another, and maintains work-life balance. We own our results and we take pride in ownership of everything we do.

As an Engineering Team Lead you will play an important role in the design and analysis of software projects with a high level of technical experience. For this role, we need someone excited about solving problems and being able to juggle multiple items in a day, taking joy in being very efficient in driving items through a pipeline process. Primary responsibilities are to solve current reported problems and find opportunities to resolve those with long term solutions. Other responsibilities may include planning, design, development and testing software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products.

Our goal is that about
20%
of your responsibility is to provide technical leadership, direction, guidance, and support for the members of your team and about
80%
of the role will be development.

Evaluate and respond to customer needs in a fashion that provides long-term benefit to WEX by finding strategic solutions to issues and driving that forward.

• Be in position to quickly and effectively resolve customer reported issues; taking ownership of the support process and collaborating with others on best solutions, effectively being a positive force for other teams by allowing focused development to continue.
• Become product domain expert and develop techniques to help team members gain expertise
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the application architecture and ensures all development conforms to defined standards
• Analyze, design, program, debug and modify software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked or internet related computer programs
• Recommend changes in development, maintenance and system standards
• Support technological aspects of a software development project so that the end product meets business & technology requirements and is delivered on-time and on-budget
• Manage a small team of highly motivated developers

How You'll Make An Impact

• A highly motivated engineer who loves working on small, high performing teams.
• Collaborative, a solid communicator, and work well with your team and stakeholders.
• Someone who cares deeply for team results, checks your ego at the door and takes pride in owning results.
• A professional who can advocate strongly for positions and still be 100% behind team decisions even if they don't go your way
• A mentor who is capable at guiding the technical development of less experienced developers at the functional, component architectural levels
• Are comfortable balancing the need to move fast with the realities of working in a highly regulated space like payments
• pick up new technology and can switch between tech stacks with a minimum of fuss
• are comfortable working on front-end web code, back end services, data stores, and infrastructure systems
• have experience writing modern software deployed in the cloud
• are comfortable with encryption schemes, modern APIs, and front-end frameworks
• have worked on agile teams to deliver software iteratively

Experience You'll Bring

• BS in an engineering field OR can make us feel intensely confident that you don't need one.
• A demonstrable working understanding of at least one modern web framework.
• Experience leading or managing team members
• Experience with Java
• Experience with cloud solutions - Azure, Google, Amazon
• Experience working on agile teams to deliver software iteratively
• Experience with designing and architecting applications
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery
• Excellent overall knowledge of Enterprise Level technologies
• Strong analytical, prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, budgeting, project management (from conception to completion), & planning skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (including analysis, interpretation, & reasoning)
• Self-motivated with attention to detail, deadlines and reporting

It would be nice if you

• Have demonstrable experience with systems engineering and automation
• Have experience with Atlassian tools like Confluence and JIRA
• Experience with Linux, containerization and container orchestration like Kubernetes
• Have experience with logging, metrics, and monitoring tools like DataDog and Splunk
• Have experience with transaction processing
• Enjoy hanging out with your team