Sr Manager Software Engineering

This is a remote position; however, the candidate must reside within 30 miles of one of the following locations: Boston, MA; San Francisco Bay Area, CA; Dallas, TX; Salt Lake City, UT; Seattle, WA; and Portland, ME

About the Team/Role

Are you excited about building solutions that expand fleet payments beyond fuel and simplify expense management? We are seeking a seasoned Sr. Manager of Software Engineering to lead the WEX Beyond Fuel and Expense Management initiative within WEX Mobility Engineering. In this role, you will lead engineering teams across the United States and India to design, build, and scale payment and expense management capabilities. You will partner with Product, Design, and business stakeholders to define the technical strategy and deliver solutions that help fleet managers and operators manage business expenses, configure spend controls, and gain visibility into spending across fuel and non-fuel purchases. You will drive the adoption of AI throughout the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery efficiency while ensuring security, reliability, and scalability.

How you'll make an impact:

Leadership & Strategy:

• Develop, drive, and execute a long-term vision and strategy for the Beyond fuel and Expense management initiative at WEX.
• Drive, prioritize, and work backwards from customer requirements in collaboration with product and commercial partners.
• Maintain a well-thought-out roadmap and create clear, interdependent OKRs with product and commercial teams.
• Establish a robust engineering roadmap to maintain clarity and motivation within the team.

Technical Ownership & Execution:

• Be as a hands-on technical leader with full ownership of systems design across mobile applications and backend microservices.
• Drive end-to-end AI-DLC, technical project execution, from initial concept through deployment and ongoing support.
• Develop and track the progress of the architectural roadmap, aligning with business objectives and industry best practices.
• Drive cross-team engineering projects as a single-threaded owner (STO).
• Implement mechanisms to reduce time-to-market using evolving engineering approaches, continuously challenging the status quo.
• Establish measurement of metrics-driven development productivity across the team.

Team Development & Culture:

• Hire, lead, manage, retain, and grow high-performance software engineers through active career growth planning.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, empowerment, and continuous learning.
• Maintain career growth plans and provide monthly and quarterly feedback for individual progress.
• Maintain a granular resource map of developers and their month-over-month work streams.

Collaboration & Efficiency:

• Collaborate with other Mobility engineering teams to reuse development practices and components, reducing duplication.
• Drive effective monthly and weekly mechanisms for planning, executing, and auditing workstreams.
• Partner with product and commercial (sales) leads to maintain a well-thought-out roadmap.

• Comfortably present, influence, and communicate to the senior leadership team. Provide regular updates and insights to your manager on the challenges and opportunities.

Experience you'll bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• 8 years of experience in software engineering with 4 years of engineering management experience.
• Expertise in developing large-scale distributed systems and proven experience in testing and validating solutions for accuracy and performance
• Ability to automate generating scaffolding code, unit tests, and integration tests using past execution data and generative AI
• Experience in building products with AI-DLC with APIs and AI first approach
• Strong understanding of security and compliance requirements in cloud and data environments.
• Excellent leadership, team-building, and dynamic decision-making skills.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a scheme/network.
• Experience building or managing fleet payments systems.
• Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization.