Backend Engineer - Mobility APIs & Microservices

WEX, Inc.

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 122,000 - 146,000

Full time

13 days ago
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Health insurance
401(k) matching
Paid time off

Job summary

WEX, Inc. is seeking a versatile software engineer to design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs. You will build scalable microservices, work with relational and NoSQL databases, and use Kafka, Elasticsearch, AWS, and containers.

Join an agile team focused on reliability, performance, and secure cloud-native solutions. You will contribute to architecture, review code, and own features end-to-end, including testing and deployment.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Strong programming in Java and/or Python with OO design fundamentals.
  • Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices.
  • Experience with relational databases and SQL optimization.
  • Exposure to NoSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, AWS, and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
  • Build and enhance microservices and distributed systems.
  • Work with relational and NoSQL databases focusing on performance and data integrity.
  • Develop with Kafka, Elasticsearch, AWS in containerized environments.
  • Contribute to cloud-native architecture and scalable platforms.
  • Write clean, testable, well-documented code and participate in code reviews.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues and apply DevOps practices like CI/CD and monitoring.
  • Learn new technologies and adapt across tech stacks as needed.
  • Take ownership from design through production support.

Skills

Java
Python
REST APIs
API design
OO design
Cloud/DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS
Kafka
Elasticsearch
PostgreSQL/Oracle
Docker
Kubernetes/Terraform

Job description

WEX, Inc. is seeking a versatile software engineer to design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs. You will build scalable microservices, work with relational and NoSQL databases, and use Kafka, Elasticsearch, AWS, and containers.

Join an agile team focused on reliability, performance, and secure cloud-native solutions. You will contribute to architecture, review code, and own features end-to-end, including testing and deployment.

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