Tech Lead, Benefits Engineering

About the Role

As a Tech Lead on the WEX Benefits Technology team, you will provide hands-on technical leadership for the design, development, and evolution of modern software solutions that power the employee benefits experience. This is a technical leadership role, not a people-management position. You will serve as a trusted technical partner to engineers, product managers, architects, and other stakeholders, helping teams make sound technical decisions and deliver high-quality, scalable software. You will spend your time balancing architecture, technical design, planning, mentoring, code quality, and hands-on engineering. You will help translate complex business problems into practical technical solutions, identify risks and dependencies early, and guide engineering teams through both new development and modernization of existing platforms. The ideal candidate is a highly autonomous technical leader who can operate effectively in complex environments, influence across teams, and bring clarity to challenging technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, helping establish sound engineering practices and raising the overall technical bar.
• Lead the architecture, technical design, planning, and implementation of complex software solutions across distributed systems and cloud environments.
• Translate business and customer needs into scalable, maintainable, and secure technical solutions.
• Guide teams in designing and building cloud-native, distributed, and event-driven applications and services.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Engineering, and other stakeholders to define technical approaches, manage dependencies, identify risks, and drive initiatives forward.
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