Software Technical Lead Manager

About the Team/Role

As a Software Developer Technical Lead you will play an important role in the design and analysis of software projects with a high level of technical experience. For this role, we need someone excited about solving problems and being able to juggle multiple items in a day, taking joy in being very efficient in driving items through a pipeline process. Primary responsibilities are to solve current reported problems and find opportunities to resolve those with long term solutions. Other responsibilities may include planning, design, development and testing software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products.

Our goal is that about 60% of your responsibility is to provide technical leadership, direction, guidance, and support for the members of your team; about 30% of the role will be development and people leadership will be 10% of your role.

This position focuses on production support.

How you'll make an impact

• Evaluate and respond to customer needs in a fashion that provides long-term benefit to WEX by finding strategic solutions to issues and driving that forward.

• Be in position to quickly and effectively resolve customer reported issues; taking ownership of the support process and collaborating with others on best solutions, effectively being a positive force for other teams by allowing focused development to continue.

• Become product domain expert and develop techniques to help team members gain expertise

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the application architecture and ensures all development conforms to defined standards

• Analyze, design, program, debug and modify software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked or internet related computer programs

• Recommend changes in development, maintenance and system standards

• Support technological aspects of a software development project so that the end product meets business & technology requirements and is delivered on-time and on-budget

• Manage a small team of highly motivated developers

• A highly motivated engineer who loves working on small, high performing teams.

• Collaborative, a solid communicator, and work well with your team and stakeholders.

• Someone who cares deeply for team results, checks your ego at the door and takes pride in owning results.

• A professional who can advocate strongly for positions and still be 100% behind team decisions even if they don't go your way

Experience you'll bring

• Pick up new technology and can switch between tech stacks with a minimum of fuss

• Have experience with cloud software development

• Are comfortable with encryption schemes, modern APIs, and front-end frameworks

• Have worked on agile teams to deliver software iteratively

• BS in an engineering field OR can make us feel intensely confident that you don't need one.

• Solid experience with .NET, C#, Microsoft SQL Server in an application development setting

• Proven leadership of team members

• Excellent overall knowledge of Enterprise Level technologies

• Strong analytical, prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, budgeting, project management (from conception to completion), & planning skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills (including analysis, interpretation, & reasoning)

• Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with peers and colleagues across the organization as well as internal and external clients

• Self-motivated with attention to detail, deadlines and reporting