Software Development Engineer 1

As a Software Engineer on the WEX Benefits Technology team, you will work in a team that partners closely with Product Managers and customers to learn about the challenges employers face while navigating the competitive employee benefits landscape.  You will design solutions that solve problems in ways our customers love and work for our business.  You will build the highest quality software in the latest technologies and test driven development practices.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to learn about our customers biggest challenges.
• Measure, inspect, and drive decisions using data.
• Design, test, code, and instrument new solutions.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
• 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.
• Next items are specific to Level 1:
• Learn our team’s process and best practices, and apply them to given tasks with help from peers and your manager.
• Partner with and assist your peers on completing tasks.
• Focus on continuous learning of new technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field;
  OR demonstrable equivalent experience.
• At least 1 year of experience in software engineering.
• Strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Passionate about keeping up with modern technologies and design.

Technology Must Haves:

• C#, Python (if applicable)

Technology Must Haves or Dedicate to Learning Quickly:

• Modern RDBMS (i.e. MS SQL, Postgres)
• ASP.NET RESTful API design
• Modern Web UI Frameworks (i.e. Angular, React, Blazor)
• Docker
• Kafka / event-driven design
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• Helm/ArgoCD
• GitHub Actions
• NoSQL databases
• GraphQL

The salary range for this position is $66,000 - $87,000.