
Senior Software Engineer (Backend & iSeries Apps)
WEX Inc
17m ago • Remote
Senior
Remote
140,600 - 173,100 USD/yr
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Quick Facts
Role: Senior Software Engineer (Apps) focusing on backend services, Mobility APIs, and IBM iSeries integrations
Experience: 10+ years software engineering; 10+ years deep IBM iSeries experience
Description
You will design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, high-performance backend services for fleet management and mobility payments. The role includes building public REST APIs and internal gRPC APIs, leading system design decisions, and improving scalability and reliability. You will also provide production support by monitoring systems, troubleshooting complex issues, and driving continuous improvements, including IBM iSeries major account implementations.
Responsibilities
Engineer backend object-oriented code for scalable, high-performance services
Develop public REST APIs and internal gRPC APIs
Lead design decisions and craft system design documentation
Write automated unit, integration, end-to-end, concurrency, and load/performance tests
Identify bottlenecks and tech debt; implement scalability and stability improvements
Implement automation for testing, monitoring, healing, scaling, and CI/CD
Collaborate cross-functionally to define and deliver new features
Perform code reviews; mentor junior and mid-level engineers; promote best practices
Troubleshoot complex production issues and write root cause analysis
Run objective comparisons of technologies and advise on tradeoffs
Maintain documentation (design docs, run books, change management, readiness plans)
Provide live-site production support and rapid incident resolution
Act as single-threaded owner/tech lead for cross-team initiatives and unblock engineers
Support Mobility major account implementations on IBM iSeries
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
10+ years professional software engineering experience
Strong data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design, and problem-solving
Internet-scale services design experience across scalability, availability, security, and reliability
Proficiency in backend development with Java or C# and frameworks such as Spring Boot
RESTful API experience plus OData and SQL
10+ years deep iSeries technologies experience (RPG III, RPGLE, RPG IV, RPG400, CLP, DDS, IBM Utilities, SOAP, PHP, .NET web services, DB2)
iSeries communications/administration experience (SSL, SSH, TCP/IP, web services)
Strong written and verbal communication skills and collaborative mindset
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Retirement savings plan
Paid time off
Health savings account
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance and disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Pay Range
$140,600.00 - $173,100.00
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