WEX

Simplifying the business of running a business.

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 5,001-10,000Since 1983H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Washington

Posted

14 days ago

Salary

$121.5K - $145.5K / year

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishCloudDockerG RPCJavaKafkaKubernetesSpring BootSpring BootSQL

Job Description

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance object oriented code in our backend services. • Develop public REST APIs using Java and internal gRPC APIs for inter-service and inter-system communication. • Craft systems designs, lead design decisions, and drive alignment with other senior engineers. • Write automated unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, concurrency tests, load/performance tests. • Analyze existing systems to identify bottlenecks, tech debt, and implement scalability, and stability improvements. • Implement automation for testing, monitoring, healing, and scaling applications, continuous integration and deployment to reduce time to market. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to define and implement new features. • Conduct code reviews (comment, approve, seek revisions, merge), mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and actively promote engineering best practices. • Dive deep and troubleshoot complex issues, devise fixes, author root cause analysis documents, and ensure lasting performance and reliability. • Conduct objective and comparative analyses of competing technologies to advise the team of pros and cons of a technology solution. • Maintain robust documentation (design docs, run books, change management docs, and readiness plans). • Provide live-site support for production applications by monitoring systems, ensuring rapid incident resolution, and driving continuous improvement. • Drive cross-team projects as a single-threaded-owner (STO) or tech lead, and actively unblock other engineers to make progress.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
  • 5-8 years of professional experience in software engineering.
  • Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design, and problem-solving skills.
  • Expertise in designing and developing internet-scale services with scalability, availability, security, and reliability design tenets.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a collaborative and empathetic mindset.
  • Proficiency in backend development, with proficiency expertise in Java or C#, and frameworks like SpringBoot, building and optimizing RESTful APIs, ODATA framework, and SQL.
  • Master’s degree in computer science or software engineering (preferred)
  • 8 years of experience in software engineering (preferred)
  • Experience with event-driven architecture and tools like Kafka (preferred)
  • Experience working on card payments (preferred)
  • Familiarity with cloud-native architecture (containerization using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes) (preferred)
  • Awareness of API security and PCI DSS compliance requirements (preferred)

Benefits

  • health, dental and vision insurances
  • retirement savings plan
  • paid time off
  • health savings account
  • flexible spending accounts
  • life insurance
  • disability insurance
  • tuition reimbursement
  • more

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