About the Team/Role
We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager with a highly technical, hands-on engineering
mindset to lead a team within WEX’s International Mobility Engineering organization. International
Mobility is a global team operating across the UK, India, Brazil, and the US. This role requires a
leader who can blend technical excellence with strong engineering leadership, fostering a DevOps
mindset, Agile execution, and best-in-class software development practices.
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for building scalable, reliable, and secure
systems while driving a culture of continuous improvement, automation, and operational excellence.
You will partner with engineering teams, product leaders, and business stakeholders to ensure that
WEX’s International Mobility products deliver high-performance, cloud-native solutions that meet
global business needs.
How you’ll make an impact
Lead by example with hands-on involvement in architecting, coding, reviewing, testing, and
deploying mission-critical software.
Instill a DevOps culture by championing automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code to
enhance system reliability and efficiency.
Promote Agile and Lean engineering best practices, ensuring incremental delivery, iterative
improvements, and continuous integration.
Own the full development lifecycle, from system design and implementation to deployment and
monitoring.
Establish and enforce engineering excellence in code quality, test automation, and observability.
Drive a data-driven approach to engineering productivity, measuring performance using key
engineering and operational metrics.
Lead a high-performing engineering team, setting clear goals, fostering a culture of accountability,
and mentoring engineers.
Optimize team efficiency by eliminating bottlenecks, improving developer experience, and
streamlining workflows.
Build scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure distributed systems that meet business SLAs and
regulatory requirements.
Collaborate with Product and Business teams to align technical execution with strategic priorities.
Own and drive technical decisions, balancing trade-offs between speed, scalability, security, and
cost.
Champion engineering best practices for cloud computing, microservices architecture, API-first
development, and event-driven systems.
Ensure system reliability and uptime, leveraging SRE principles, observability tools, and incident
management frameworks.
Experience you’ll bring
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in an engineering leadership
role.
Deep technical expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud-native
architectures.
Strong coding and architectural skills in modern programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Go, Python,
or similar).
Experience leading Agile engineering teams, with a proven track record of delivering software using
Scrum/Kanban methodologies.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and DevOps
automation.
Proven ability to scale engineering teams and optimize development workflows.
Expertise in building distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
Deep understanding of API-first development, RESTful and GraphQL APIs, and secure API
gateways.
Strong experience in monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, ELK,
Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth, globally distributed environment.
Ability to communicate complex technical topics to both engineering and non-engineering
stakeholders.
Experience in financial technology, mobility, or fleet management systems. (Preferred)
Familiarity with global compliance and regulatory standards for payments and mobility. (Preferred)
Background in real-time data processing, analytics, or AI-driven optimizations. (Preferred)
Experience integrating machine learning models or AI-driven decision-making into engineering
workflows. (Preferred)