Staff Software Engineer, Risk

About the Team/Role

WEX is an innovative global commerce platform and payments technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, to simplify the business of doing business for customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love and care about. We are journeying to build a consistent world-class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer-focused innovations across all our strategic initiatives, including big data, AI, and Risk.

We are looking for a highly motivated and highly potential Staff Engineer to join our Risk Engineering team to make big business impacts and grow your career. 

This is a really exciting time to be in risk technology at WEX. We are hiring for a cross-functional initiative with the goal of creating a modern, cloud-based technology ecosystem to allow WEX to be more nimble, faster to market, and open to emerging business opportunities, while keeping regulations, policy, and risk mitigation top of mind. We are in the process of building a powerful platform for risk operation & management, credit underwriting & management, finance risk operation & management, on top of our Data Platform and AI Platform, leveraging open source technologies as well as vendor platforms and tools.

The vision of this integrated risk platform is to enable streamlining how WEX interacts with customers - from creating accounts, maintaining and expanding relationships, and monitoring for good health and risk through a number of vectors. With strong risk control and management, this platform will allow Wex to more effectively grow our business and customer base in a much faster and safer way together with improved customer experience. We develop and leverage advanced technologies from the industry to ensure our efficiency and effectiveness, including modern big data technologies and AI technologies. We use agile development with the combined engineering approach and the product operating model.

We have challenging problems with huge business impact potentials for you to lead, work on and grow. We also have a strong team with highly talented and skillful engineers and leaders to support, guide, coach you.

If you dream to be a strong engineer who can solve tough problems, lead, generate big impacts, and grow fast, this is a great opportunity for you!

How you’ll make an impact

• Collaborate with partners/stakeholders to learn about our customers’ business and key challenges.

• Design, test, code, and instrument new data products/systems/platforms/pipelines …