Engineering Manager

About the Team/Role​
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to join our Electric Vehicles (EV) platform team. The EV team is responsible for integrating WEX with a wide range of EV-enabling partners and technologies.
This role requires a strong background in back-end development. As the leader of an engineering team, you will be responsible for designing and developing intuitive, performant services, driving alignment across multiple domains, mentoring engineers, and maintaining processes to ensure quality and delivery speed.
​How you’ll make an impact:
Serve as a hands-on technical leader, specifically owning and implementing systems for the EV platform
Champion a culture of innovation, continuous learning, collaboration, and empowerment within the team.
Continuously challenge current processes to reduce time-to-market by adopting proper engineering approaches.
Drive and execute cross-team engineering projects as the single-threaded owner (STO).
Collaborate closely with product and commercial partners to prioritize work to develop a modern event driven architecture
Enforce clear, metrics-driven measurements for developer productivity across the EV team.
Run effective weekly and monthly mechanisms for planning, executing, and auditing workstreams.
Partner with product and commercial leads to maintain a robust roadmap and define clear, interdependent OKRs.
Collaborate with other Mobility engineering teams to promote the reuse of development practices and components, minimizing duplication of effort.
Hire, lead, manage, retain, and grow high-performance software engineers.
Utilize active career growth planning, providing monthly and quarterly feedback for individuals' continual progress.
Maintain a detailed, granular resource map showing developers and their month-over-month work streams.
Comfortably present, influence, and communicate with the senior leadership team.
Provide regular updates and insights to your manager regarding challenges and opportunities within the Mobility domain.
​Experience you'll bring:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
6+ years in software engineering experience, including 2+ years in an engineering management role
Strong hands-on background building and scaling modern event driven services
Proven experience driving engineering excellence in back-end systems
Experience partnering with Product, Design, and Backend teams to translate product vision into scalable and maintainable services.
Solid understanding of security, privacy, and compliance considerations relevant to payment platforms (e.g., authentication, authorization, data protection).
Familiarity with leveraging developer productivity tools, including automation and AI-assisted development, to improve code quality, velocity, and consistency.
Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development for frontend engineers.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, make informed trade-offs, and lead teams through change in a fast-paced organization.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and clearly articulate technical and non-technical concepts.
Exposure to analytics tools to track customers journeys between applications and how to convert the insights into features.
​Preferred Qualifications:
​Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies.
​Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a scheme/network.
​Experience working on closed-loop card systems.