Intern - Software Engineer (Graduate Students Only)

WEX is a global commerce platform that has been simplifying the way businesses operate for over 40 years. Our purpose is simple: to reduce administrative burdens, streamline payments, and manage mobility. With a team of over 7,200 professionals across 16 countries.

Our specialties are employee benefits, business payments, and fleet/mobility solutions. We support more than 20 million SaaS accounts, 8 million Health Savings Accounts, and 19+ million vehicles worldwide. We're a growing company with a history of innovation and a focus on our customers, making this a great place to grow your career.

The WEX Summer Internship Program: Learn, Lead, and Make an Impact

Our 13-week paid internship program, running from late May to mid-August, is a chance for you to gain real-world experience and develop your skills. Recruiting begins in September and continues through December at our various locations across the U.S.

You won't just be a bystander; you'll work on impactful projects and contribute to WEX's mission. We provide mentorship, professional development, and weekly learning experiences to help you build confidence and leadership skills. High-performing interns may even get the chance to lead their own initiatives.

We offer remote, hybrid, and onsite options for flexibility, and our goal is to bring top interns back full-time or offer them extended roles during the school year. Imagine starting your career with a company that's building what's next. Your future starts here.

About the Team/Role:

As a Software Engineer on the WEX Technology team, you will work in a team that partners closely with Product Managers and customers to learn about the challenges employers face while navigating the competitive business landscape. You will design solutions that solve problems in ways our customers love and work for our business. You will build the highest quality software in the latest technologies and test-driven development practices.

How you'll make an impact:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to learn about our customers biggest challenges.

• Collaborate closely with Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to design, build, and iterate on world-class product experiences, defining product scope and design.

• Measure, inspect, and drive decisions using data.

• Ownership for the entirety of your features; including API design, implementation, automated testing, and rollout.

• Hold yourself, and your teammates accountable to the standards of engineering and ethics that enables WEX to safely move billions of dollars in payments and allow our customers to trust us with their sensitive data.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.

• Build high availability and resilient systems which can scale quickly.

• Strengthen and drive our engineering process with TDD and BDD, Microservice and Vertical Slice Architectures.

• Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps, make effective technical trade-offs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.

• Support live applications, promote proactive monitoring, rapid incident response, and continuous improvement.

• Analyze existing systems and processes to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements.

• Mentor and learn from your peers, fostering continuous learning within your team and organization.

• Learn our team's process and best practices, and apply them to given tasks with help from peers and your Manager.

• Partner with, and assist your peers on completing tasks.

• Focus on continuous learning of new technologies.

• Gain hands-on experience with automation and AI-driven solutions.

• Build cross-functional collaboration skills through team rotations.

• Apply learning to real-world challenges and propose innovative solutions.

Experience you'll bring:

• Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success.

• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, and responsibility, and think of yourself as an entrepreneur.

• Proficiency in at least one server-side language and an enthusiasm to learn others. Our engineers have all kinds of backgrounds and are encouraged to move freely across our technology stack.

• An appreciation for the connection between the software you build and the experience it delivers to customers.

• Passionate about keeping up with modern technologies and design.

• Languages we use and teach: C#, Go and Java.