Software Engineering Manager

WEX Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

WEX Inc. in Bengaluru seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional team building and modernizing a scalable payments platform. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and ensure reliable delivery in a cloud-native, secure environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, strong stakeholder communication, and a focus on high availability, low latency systems. Experience with C#/.NET and MSSQL is advantageous, with a global, inclusive team culture.

Qualifications

• Essential Proven track record leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience writing clean, scalable, performant code.
• Deep expertise in modern software engineering practices, cloud platforms, and DevOps with automation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Collaborative mindset with problem-solving passion.
• Preferred background in highly transactional, highly available, low latency systems.
• Experience with C#/.NET and MSSQL is highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of Engineers to design, develop, QA, deploy and maintain the payments platform.
• Mentor engineers through regular feedback and stretch opportunities.
• Build a safe, accountable culture with high standards and psychological safety.
• Clarify intent and guardrails, unblocking work and empowering the team.
• Contribute to architectural direction and cloud-native, event-driven platform evolution.
• Collaborate with Product to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Ensure reliable delivery, reduce tech debt, and maintain flow.
• Oversee incident management and promote resilient architecture.

Job description

Software Engineering Manager Drive Innovation. Lead Change. Build the Future of Payments. At WEX, we're redefining what's possible in the payments industry. As a Software Engineering Manager, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of our evolving payments platform. Working with cutting-edge technology, you'll be part of a dynamic, fast-paced team that thrives on solving complex problems and delivering scalable, high-performance solutions.

About the Role

In this role, you'll be an innovator and a leader, delivering new functionality for our customers while supporting and modernizing our platform; you will tackle complex engineering challenges at scale, processing millions of transactions daily on a platform that meets aggressive uptime SLAs.

How You'll Make an Impact

People Leadership

• Lead a cross-functional team of Engineers to design, develop, QA, deploy and maintain the payments platform.
• Mentor and grow engineers through regular 1:1s, actionable feedback, and deliberate stretch opportunities.
• Build a safe, accountable culture where high standards and psychological safety coexist.
• Enable autonomy by clarifying intent and guardrails, removing obstacles and then trusting your team to make decisions.
• Have the hard conversations regarding performance or behaviour with directness and empathy.

Technical Leadership

• Spend meaningful time hands-on each week, pairing on complex problems, leading design sessions and pairing on critical issues.
• Be the person your team comes to for hard technical calls - you don't defer every decision to a tech lead.
• Model engineering excellence through deep, constructive code reviews that teach as well as critique.
• Champion responsible, secure adoption of AI tools across the SDLC to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
• Play a key role in our architectural direction, evolving our platform to become cloud-native and event-driven.
• Continuously explore new technologies to improve our platform and processes.

Delivery - Operations

• Work with the Product team to translate business requirements into functional, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with your talented peer group to build solutions that are robust, maintainable and future-proof.
• Ensure your team delivers reliably, removing friction by unblocking work, reducing tech debt, and streamlining processes to maintain flow.
• Ensure availability of the platform through leadership of incident management as required.
• Promote resilient architecture and operational excellence across services.

What You'll Bring

• Essential Proven track record leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams.
• Proven hands-on experience in writing clean, scalable, performant, high quality code.
• Deep expertise in modern software engineering practices, cloud platforms, and DevOps approaches including test and deployment automation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• A collaborative mindset with a passion for learning and problem-solving.
• Preferred Background in supporting highly transactional, highly available, low latency systems.
• Experience with C#/.NET and MSSQL are highly advantageous.

Why WEX?

At WEX, we believe that diversity drives innovation. We are a global company that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Here, you'll find a supportive, inclusive environment where your ideas are valued, and your growth is prioritized. You'll collaborate with teams from around the world, expanding your skills and your horizons.

Join us in building the future of payments - together.

WEX is a global commerce platform that helps businesses solve for operational complexities like employee benefits, managing and mobilizing fleets, and streamlining payments. With over 6,500 employees, we work with large and small companies in more than 200 countries and territories, and can tailor our services to meet the unique needs of their businesses.

We hire people who share our passion for continuous innovation and client service that is unparalleled in the industry.

Offering comprehensive and market competitive benefits, our offerings are designed to support your personal and professional well-being.

If you're looking for a growing career - come be part of WEX today.

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WEX is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, disability or other protected status.

WEX promotes a drug-free workplace. Qualified individuals with a disability have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. If you require a reasonable accommodation as a result of your disability at any point in the job application process, please submit your request through our Reasonable Accommodation Request Form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.