Director of Software Engineering

DIRECTOR OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, MOBILITY ENGINEERING / LONDON / HYBRID / COMPETITIVE SALARY PLUS BENEFITS

WEX is a global leader in financial technology solutions, based in Portland, Maine, United States, with over 7,000 WEXers distributed in over 40 countries. We simplify the complexities of payment systems across continents and industries like Fleet, Corporate Payments, and Benefits.

We are seeking a seasoned Director of Engineering in the WEX Mobility Engineering organization. This role will lead the engineering team for the International Mobility suite of products. International fleet is a global team situated in the UK, USA, Australia, India, and Brazil.

International Mobility systems provide SaaS and PaaS solutions to various customers in APAC and EU.

What's on offer?

• Competitive basic salary dependent upon experience
• Annual short-term incentive plan
• Long-term incentive plan
• Monday – Friday 40 hours per week
• Fantastic work-life balance, hybrid working
• Company pension, life assurance scheme, Income protection and private medical
• A generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays.
• Holiday purchase scheme, the ability to add an additional 5 days of annual leave per year.
• Employee discount platform, companywide and departmental incentives schemes, and Gym Flex.
• Employee wellbeing
• Employee referral programme.

Key Responsibilities of the Director of Software Engineering:

• Develop, drive and execute a long-term vision and strategy for the WEX International Mobility platform.
• Define and implement a comprehensive architectural roadmap for International Mobility platform, aligning with business objectives and industry best practices.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, empowerment, and continuous learning within the engineering teams.
• Continuously challenge the status quo and implement mechanisms to reduce time-to-market using efficient engineering methods.
• Collaborate with other Mobility engineering teams to reuse development practices and components to reduce duplication.
• Craft, lead, manage, and grow high-performance engineering teams. Hire, coach, promote, and retain high performers to achieve WEX goals.
• Work closely with product and commercial partners to drive, prioritize, and work backwards from the customer requirements and exceed expected outcomes.
• Drive effective monthly, weekly, and quarterly mechanisms to plan, execute, and audit workstreams.
• Establish a robust and clear engineering roadmap to maintain clarity and motivation for the engineering team.
• Establish measurement of metrics-driven dev productivity across the International Mobility engineering team.
• Comfortably present, influence, and communicate to the senior leadership team.

Experience you'll bring:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• 10 years of experience in software engineering with 3 years of engineering management experience.
• Expertise in rapid development and deployment using cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a scheme/network.
• Experience building or managing fleet systems.
• Experience working on closed-loop card systems.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams, and ability to craft self-managing distributed teams.

What’s Next?

If you have the passion and drive to be successful in this amazing new Director of Software Engineering role, we would love to hear from you. APPLY NOW for immediate consideration.