Specialist Java Engineer

About the Team/Role 

Wex is a leading and growing global provider of payment processing, information management and fleet card payment solutions. We hire people who share our passion for continuous innovation and unparalleled client service. 

The Gateway is a mission critical, payment processing solution built by a small, agile team. It is Java based and becoming cloud-native by implementing key features as micro services. The Gateway team is pushing the frontiers of payments technology and is in the process of operationalizing and scaling the product.

Our team works hard, covers for one another, and maintains work-life balance. We own our results and we take pride in ownership of everything we do.

 How you'll make an impact

• A highly motivated software engineer who loves working on small, high performing teams. 

• A team player that is open to take different roles as needed by the team during the development cycle

• Collaborative, a solid communicator, and work well with teams and stakeholders. 

• Someone who cares deeply for team results, checks your ego at the door, and takes pride in owning results.

• A professional who can advocate strongly for their position and still be 100% behind a team's decisions.

• Pick up new technology and switch between tech stacks with a minimum of fuss 

• Are comfortable working on cloud-based solutions such as micro services, lambda, EKS, EC2, etc. 

• Are a solid architect/designer/developer.

• Have worked on agile teams to deliver software iteratively 

• Comfortable balancing the need to move fast with the realities of working in a highly regulated space like payments

• Passionate about what you do and desire to apply your skills to produce value-add results

• Enjoy eating and hanging out with your team in person and virtually

• Design and develop new applications

• Design and maintain automated tests to ensure code quality

• Identify and implement CI/CD methodology and philosophies for existing and new applications and services

• Expand the team’s knowledge base on automation

Experience you'll bring 

• Bachelor Degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Strong of development experience in Java 8 (or above) or similar language (C#)

• Experience with writing unit test

• Experience automating Cloud-based applications and services

• Experience with Multi-cloud solutions - Azure, Google, Amazon

• Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery

• Experience with one or more of the following: AWS Cloud Formation, Kubernetes (K8S), TerraForm, Ansible, Jenkins, Chef, ADO, and Puppet

Plus

• Strong experience in Java 8 or above

• Experience developing infrastructure as code

• Experience working on agile teams to deliver software iteratively

• Experience with Test automation and Automation Softwares

• Experience with Atlassian tools like Confluence and JIRA