Senior Staff Engineer, Risk Position Available In Cumberland, Maine

Senior Staff Engineer, Risk at WEX Inc. in South PortlandSouth Portland, Maine, United States Job Description Company Overview
WEX is a global commerce platform and payments technology company that helps businesses solve operational complexities such as employee benefits, fleet management and mobilization, and streamlining payments. Our goal is to simplify the business of running a business for our customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love. We are on a journey to build a unified, world-class user experience across our products and services, leveraging customer-driven innovations across all our strategic initiatives, including big data, AI, and Risk. Position Summary
We are looking for a highly motivated, technically deep, and experienced hands-on Software Engineer to join a group of high-performing engineers in the Risk area to provide hands-on technical leadership including tech direction, tech stack decisioning, architecture design, end-to-end development, deployment, and production measurement and monitoring.
This is an exciting time to be in risk technology at WEX. We are hiring for a cross-functional initiative with the goal of creating a modern, cloud-based technology ecosystem that will enable WEX to be more nimble, faster to market, and open to emerging business opportunities, while keeping regulations, policy, and risk mitigation top of mind. We are in the process of building a powerful platform for risk operations and management, credit underwriting and management, and finance risk operations and management, all built on top of our Data Platform and AI Platform, leveraging open-source technologies as well as vendor platforms and tools. The vision of this integrated risk platform is to streamline how WEX interacts with customers-ranging from creating accounts, maintaining and expanding relationships to monitoring for overall health and risk across multiple vectors. With strong risk control and management, this platform will enable WEX to grow our business and customer base at a faster pace, and in a safer manner, all while improving customer experience. This role will report to the Senior Director of Risk Engineering, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It can also be based in Chicago, Portland, Maine (Wex HQ), or Boston. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the risk field and risk platform development, a proven background in developing complex software platforms, strong engineering skills and technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a drive to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. This individual will have a strong track record of delivering an effective, highly available, and flexible technology platform in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. Responsibilities From the technology and engineering side, lead and drive the development of the technology and platform for the company’s risk needs, ensuring the functional richness, reliability, performance, and flexibility of the Risk Platform. Own the technology and architecture of the Risk platform and services by partnering with the Senior Director of Risk Engineering and other leaders in the team. Challenge the status quo and maintain a high bar to drive better technical solutions that effectively serve the broad risk needs of WEX. Closely partner with leaders in the Risk Product and Risk & Compliance organizations to deeply understand business needs and collaboratively develop technical solutions to meet these needs effectively. Demonstrate strong thought leadership and partnership. Help grow and build a strong global risk engineering team, attracting high talent and hiring with a high bar. Provide effective guidance and coaching on engineering principles and best practices to ensure team productivity, high quality, and timeliness in initiative development and delivery. Ensure reliable risk platform production execution with observability, and provide clear visibility to partners. Partner with leaders in the Data, AI, and Risk organizations to leverage the Data Platform and AI Platform to address the needs of Risk. Partner with the solutions architecture and line-of-business (LOB) product and engineering organizations on integrating the Risk Platform with their products and systems, ensuring reliable and high-performance execution. Drive the technical vision and strategy for Risk, serving both near-term and long-term business needs, by partnering with the Senior Director of Risk Engineering. Close collaboration with the Risk & Compliance and Risk Product teams is essential. Set a high bar and provide technical guidance, training, and mentorship to engineering teams, including engineering principles, skills, and best practices. Uphold strong DORA metrics across the organization. Foster an environment of continuous learning and innovation. Build an inclusive, productive, innovative, and engaging Risk group, attracting top… For full info follow application link. Equal Opportunity Employer/Vets/Disability