Director PaaS Engineering - Applications

We’re the Platform Engineering team at WEX, focusing on creating and evolving the first WEX’s Internal Developer Platform (IDP). We are in the process of improving existing solutions and also building new ones to continuously modernize our products and technologies. We focus on the latest and most efficient tools to deliver the best products to our customers. We have more work than we can handle and we’re looking for great people to come along for the ride.

Our team works hard, we cover for one another, and we maintain a healthy work-life balance. We own our results and take pride in the ownership of everything we do (check your ego at the door and take pride in owning results!). We all are comfortable balancing the need to move fast with the realities of working in a highly regulated space like payments.

About the role

• You will learn, research, and prototype new modern tools for our teams. You will create Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and share your findings with a broader audience. As a result, you will constantly learn new technologies, processes, languages, and tools.
• You will help provide architectural blueprints, prototype solutions, analyze data flows, and create the necessary specs to roll out various solutions.
• You will make the job of our company’s software engineers easier. You will develop tools to increase the speed of the deployment and workflows of our application using GitOps principles.
• You will be the manager (Director) of a small group of talented software engineers, which entails performing code reviews, helping implement architectural best practices, mentorship, and all necessary HR-related functions.
• You’re open-minded and have strong soft skills to relate, collaborate, and communicate well with a diverse audience.
• You’re a leader and place the mission above your own interests. Your soft skills are exemplary and people love working with you.
• You love to learn and code! This role changes rapidly, technology evolves quickly and we want to provide the best options for our engineers continuously.

Qualifications

Must have

• You’re passionate about technology and love to learn and try new things.
• You’re creative and feel comfortable with constant changes in the industry.
• 5+ years of management experience with a proven track record leading multiple technical teams.
• 10+ years of development experience with major programming languages.
• 7+ years designing and architecting enterprise-wide applications.
• Hands-on experience with major RDBMS and NoSQL data stores.
• You have extensive experience with GitOps, containerization, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD.
• Extensive AWS knowledge, including Terraform.
• A proven track record of delivering complex and enterprise-wide applications.

It would be nice if you have

• Used and configured Internal Developer Portals, such as OpsLevel.
• Delivered event-driven solutions or worked with Apache Kafka.
• Delivered projects with strong failover capabilities, with multi-region or even multi-cloud support.
• Good understanding of security-related concepts and best practices, such as OWASP, SSO, ACLs, TLS, tokenization, etc.

Some Technologies we use and teach

• AWS, Azure
• Kafka
• Python, Java, C#, others
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Argo CD
• Backstage (equivalent)
• RESTful APIs, graphQL
• GitHub, GitHub Actions
• Terraform
• Anything that moves us forward