Sr. Software Engineering Manager Mobile & Distributed Services

About the position

We are seeking a seasoned Sr. Manager of Engineering in the WEX Mobility Engineering organization. This role will lead the engineering team for our 10-4 by WEX product that caters fuel discounts and mobility payments solutions to owner-operator customers. The development team spans across USA and Brazil. WEX Mobility products enable credit issuance to fleet companies and their employees, and owner-operator truckers in the form of WEX Credit Cards, which can be used in fueling stations and select other merchants.

Responsibilities

• Develop, drive, and execute a long-term vision and strategy for the 10-4 by WEX product.
• 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.
• Be a hands-on technical leader with full ownership of systems design across mobile applications and backend microservices.
• Drive end-to-end 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.
• 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.
• 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 with the senior leadership team.
• Provide regular updates and insights to your manager (Director) on the challenges and opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering with 4+ years of engineering management experience.
• Hands-on experience in mobile development (native iOS/Android or cross-platform frameworks like React Native or Flutter).
• 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.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience scaling mobile applications and backend services to ensure high performance and reliability under growing demand.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization.
• Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies.
• Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a scheme/network.

Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurances
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid time off
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Quarterly or annual bonus based on role and applicable plan