Job Description
SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER/ LONDON/ HYBRID/ £100,000-£126,000 PLUS BENEFITS
About the Team / Role
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 Engineering Manager in the WEX Mobility Engineering organization. This role will lead an engineering team for the Mobility suite of products focusing on energy transition (Electric Vehicles - EV). Mobility Engineering for EV is a global team situated in UK, India, and
Brazil. EV Mobility team builds SaaS and PaaS solutions to various customers in US and EU to enable on-route charging, at-home charging, and getting reimbursements for their charging expenses. WEX Mobility products in general enable credit issuance to fleet companies and their employees in the form of WEX Credit Cards, which can be used in fuelling stations and select other merchants. At WEX, we provide fleet managers with the ability to configure spend controls that restrict fleet members to use their card only at preconfigured merchants and for configured products families.
What’s on offer?
• Highly competitive salary between £100,000-£126,000 (dependant on experience)
• Annual company bonus
• 40 hour week – Monday to Friday, no evenings or weekends
• Fully office based – London Bridge
• Industry leading pension
• Private Medical
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays – with the opportunity to purchase additional holidays
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Gym Flex membership
• Discounts & perks platform
• Employee wellbeing
How you’ll make an impact
• Lead by example via hands-on activities including architecting, coding, code reviewing, unit testing, and infrastructure setup
• Define and implement a comprehensive architectural roadmap for EV 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, and execute workstreams.
Establish a robust and clear engineering roadmap to maintain clarity and motivation for the engineering team. Maintain career growth plans and provide monthly and quarterly feedback for individuals’ continual progress.
• Establish measurement of metrics-driven dev productivity across EV Mobility engineering team.
Experience you’ll bring
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Previous experience in software engineering with engineering management experience.
• Expertise in rapid development and deployment using cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• 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.
• Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a
scheme/network.
• Experience building or managing fleet systems.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams
What’s next?
If you feel that you have the necessary skills to be our SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER then please APPLY TODAY for immediate consideration.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/ belief, ****** orientation, or age
Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately it is not possible to respond to each one individually, applicants that are shortlisted will be contacted within one week of applications.
We do not accept speculative agency CVs. Any CV received by WEX will be treated as a gift and will not be eligible for an agency fee. PSL agencies should only send CVs if authorised to do so by the Talent Acquisition team.
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