Software Development Engineer 4 at WEX, inc. in Portland, Maine

Job Description:

General Purpose:

Plan, design, develop and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing technical leadership to moderate and large cross functional development efforts.


• Collaborates with internal stakeholders to identify business opportunities and solve business problems.


• Responsible for providing high level assessments of development efforts.


• Responsible for designing, developing, and testing solutions for projects of moderate to significant complexity.


• Responsible for building and executing against a detailed development schedule.


• Responsible for monitoring the efforts of more junior developer and contracted staff.


• Responsible for producing project related artifacts and ensuring development efforts conform to standards.


• Collaborates with team to identify improvements and upgrades that will reduce cost, improve stability, and increase performance.


• Responsible for engaging with production support staff and remediating chronic and/or critical production support issues.


• Responsible for training and mentoring more junior or new staff.

Minimum Required Qualifications for Consideration:

• Bachelor's degree and 4 years+ of related work experience.


• Minimum 3 years+ experience with Java (Java SE, JDBC, JMS.)


• Experience with Linux/Unix and Windows development environments.


• Strong SQL skills.


• Good Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) skill along with data modelling.


• Experience with Hibernate or other ORM tool.


• Experience with an IDE tool such as Intellij or Eclipse.


• Experience with Web Services.


• Strong skills writing high-performance, multi-threaded, efficient and maintainable software code.


• Experience with Java Servlet, JSP.


• Must have the ability to accurately estimate future and remaining work effort, and meet aggressive software build schedules.


• Production on-call support.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology.


• Knowledgeable in AWS product offerings, CloudFormations, Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory


• DevOps experience


• Experience with message queuing (JMS) software.


• Experience with performance profiling and tuning tools.


• Experience with WebLogic, or similar enterprise application servers is a plus.


• Experience in working with highly transactional, e-commerce, or finance related industry.