Remote Java Backend Engineer | SDE II | Spring Boot

WEX, Inc.; Portland (ME); On-site; USD 96,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

life insurance

paid time off

tuition reimbursement

Job summary

WEX, Inc. is seeking a Software Development Engineer 2 (Java 17+) to help modernize the Digital Credit Application. The role focuses on building a fast, reliable API layer and modular business logic, with an emphasis on integration across Salesforce and cloud-native services.

The position is remote with a 30-mile residency requirement for multiple U.S. locations, offering growth in a fintech environment and opportunities to work with AWS, PostgreSQL, and Kafka/RabbitMQ ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Strong background in backend software development.
• Experience with Java and the Spring ecosystem.
• Ability to design and scale RESTful services.
• Familiarity with cloud and database technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable microservices using Java 17+ and Spring Boot.
• Migrate business logic from Salesforce to cloud-native services.
• Build and document REST APIs for multi-channel frontends.
• Implement modular Adjudication components for third-party integrations.
• Ensure data synchronization between PostgreSQL databases and Salesforce.

Skills

Backend development

REST API design

Distributed systems debugging

Self-learning

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Data

Spring Security

AWS

PostgreSQL

NoSQL

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Maven/Gradle

Job description

WEX, Inc. is seeking a Software Development Engineer 2 (Java 17+) to help modernize the Digital Credit Application. The role focuses on building a fast, reliable API layer and modular business logic, with an emphasis on integration across Salesforce and cloud-native services.

The position is remote with a 30-mile residency requirement for multiple U.S. locations, offering growth in a fintech environment and opportunities to work with AWS, PostgreSQL, and Kafka/RabbitMQ ecosystems.