About the Team and Role

We are looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager to join our dynamic Electric Vehicles (EV) platform team. This team is dedicated to integrating WEX with a diverse array of EV-enabling partners and cutting-edge technologies. The ideal candidate will possess a robust background in back-end development. In this leadership position, you will be instrumental in designing and developing intuitive, high-performance services, fostering alignment across various domains, mentoring your engineering team, and upholding processes that ensure both quality and rapid delivery.

Your impact will be significant:

• Serve as a hands-on technical leader, with direct ownership and implementation of systems for the EV platform.
• Cultivate a team culture that champions innovation, continuous learning, collaboration, and empowerment.
• Proactively challenge existing processes to accelerate time-to-market through the adoption of best-practice engineering approaches.
• Lead and execute cross-team engineering projects as the single-threaded owner (STO).
• Collaborate closely with product and commercial partners to prioritize initiatives, focusing on the development of a modern, event-driven architecture.
• Implement clear, metrics-driven measurements to track developer productivity within the EV team.
• Oversee effective weekly and monthly mechanisms for planning, execution, and auditing of workstreams.
• Partner with product and commercial leads to maintain a robust roadmap and define clear, interdependent OKRs.
• Engage with other Mobility engineering teams to encourage the reuse of development practices and components, thereby minimizing duplicated efforts.
• Recruit, lead, manage, retain, and foster the growth of high-performing software engineers.
• Utilize active career growth planning, providing monthly and quarterly feedback to support individual progress.
• Maintain a detailed, granular resource map that outlines developers and their month-over-month work streams.
• Confidently present, influence, and communicate with the senior leadership team.
• Provide regular updates and insights to your manager regarding challenges and opportunities within the Mobility domain.

Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• A minimum of 6 years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in an engineering management capacity.
• Extensive hands-on experience in building and scaling modern, event-driven services.
• Demonstrated success in driving engineering excellence within back-end systems.
• Proven experience partnering with Product, Design, and Backend teams to translate product visions into scalable and maintainable services.
• A solid understanding of security, privacy, and compliance considerations pertinent to payment platforms, including authentication, authorization, and data protection.
• Familiarity with leveraging developer productivity tools, such as automation and AI-assisted development, to enhance code quality, velocity, and consistency.
• Exceptional people leadership skills, encompassing hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development for software engineers.
• The ability to navigate and thrive in ambiguous environments, make well-informed trade-offs, and guide teams through change in a fast-paced organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the capacity to influence stakeholders and clearly articulate both technical and non-technical concepts.
• Exposure to analytics tools for tracking customer journeys across applications and translating insights into actionable features.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies.
• Experience developing credit card products or solutions within a payment scheme/network.
• Experience working with closed-loop card systems.