Principal Software Development Engineer

About The Team
We are seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Front-End JavaScript Engineer to join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our web applications. This is an opportunity for a highly skilled and experienced engineer to make a significant impact on our products and services. The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding of JavaScript, expertise in either React or Angular, and a proven track record of creating federated UI components. Experience leveraging AI in the development process is a significant advantage.

How you’ll make an impact

Team Collaboration

• Support applications both during and outside business hours.
• Resolve issues and Service Requests quickly and efficiently.
• Support production deployments, which occur on evenings and weekends. Contribute to post-deployment application validation. Quickly troubleshoot, evaluate, and resolve any issues that arise.
• Participate in and lead team conversations, meetings and feature discussions.

Software Design and Architecture

• Design application architecture. Others use your designs as examples to use from.
• Develop solutions that can be performant, scalable, consistent, and supportable that can be accomplished within the available scope, time and budget.
• Perform design and code reviews within the team and across other teams to ensure implementations adhere to goals, industry standards and best practices.
• Deliver software that meets requirements by applying knowledge of the product area to provide the best long-term solutions.
• Ensure code is testable at all levels (unit, integration, and end-to-end).
• Increase unit test coverage.
• Review requirements to provide meaningful, timely and critical feedback to improve them.
• Ensure requirements are feasible, implementation is efficient, and the design is aligned with the technical direction of WEX.
• Estimate and prioritize project requests.
• Assist with internal partner initiatives and projects.
• Work with Architects, Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Business Analysts to collaborate on design and delivery decisions.

Project Implementation

• Identify and document performance improvements and technical debt.
• Reduce the risk of security threats to WEX Health through a strong understanding of security best practices and close collaboration with Security Architects.
• Identify new threats and vulnerabilities and work with Architects to evolve mitigation strategies.
• Efficiently and effectively implement solutions in all environments, resulting in an increased level of throughput. Others use your code as an example to learn from.

Product Proficiency

• Demonstrate expert level understanding of your team’s product domain and understands multiple product domains outside of your current team.
• Act as an internal and external subject matter expert on WEX systems.
• Able to describe application behavior and technology outside of the Development department in both a technical and business communication style.

Leadership 

• Help others complete tasks to accomplish goals.
• Step into other roles to ensure project deadlines are met.
• Mentor and onboard new Software Engineers ensuring they have the proper tools and knowledge to become productive quickly.
• Participate in the interview process and provide valuable hiring recommendations.
• Provide technical and domain guidance to internal and external team members.
• Lead multiple features or components through the full software deployment lifecycle, including integration, customer feedback, release, and support phases.
• Recommend ways to distribute work across your team to increase development efficiency.
• Perform effectively in a cross-functional team environment to ensure successful execution and delivery of project commitments
• Demonstrate expertise in a domain as evidenced by others seeking your peer reviews, advice, and problem solving.
• Coordinate work efforts and communicate priorities across teams to ensure successful execution and delivery of commitments.
• These teams may include Business Analysts, Quality Assurance Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, Support, Management, Configuration Management, Database Administrators, etc.
• Facilitate team meetings as needed, including scrum master ceremonies, if applicable to the team.
• Measure, inspect, and drive decisions using data.

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

• Architect and Implement: Design, develop, and maintain complex, scalable, and performant front-end JavaScript applications using React, adhering to best practices and industry standards.
• Federated UI Development: Spearhead the creation and maintenance of a library of federated UI components that can be seamlessly shared and reused across multiple applications, ensuring consistency and efficiency.
• AI Integration: Research, explore, and implement AI-driven features and enhancements into front-end applications, such as intelligent search, personalized recommendations, and natural language processing.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, back-end engineers, and QA, to gather requirements, translate designs into code, and deliver exceptional user experiences.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring fast and responsive web applications across various devices and browsers.
• Accessibility: Champion accessibility best practices, ensuring that our applications are usable by individuals with disabilities.
• Innovation: Stay abreast of emerging front-end technologies, tools, and trends, and proactively identify opportunities to leverage them to enhance our products and development processes.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field; OR demonstrable equivalent experience.
• Extensive Experience: 10+ years of professional experience in front-end development, with a strong focus on JavaScript, React or Angular, and federated UI architectures.
• Deep Technical Expertise: A profound understanding of core JavaScript concepts, including ES6+, asynchronous programming, and DOM manipulation. Mastery of React or Angular, including state management, component lifecycle, and routing.
• AI Proficiency: Demonstrable experience or a strong interest in applying AI and machine learning techniques to front-end development.
• Architectural Acumen: Ability to design and implement scalable and maintainable front-end architectures, with a focus on modularity, reusability, and testability.
• Problem-Solving Skills: A knack for tackling complex technical challenges and devising creative solutions.
• ?Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Team Player: A collaborative and supportive team player who thrives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Technology Must-Haves:

• Experience with TypeScript
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Agile development methodologies