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Software Development · 5.4k people

Software Development Engineer 3- AI & Agentic Systems

Posted 10 Oct

What’s this role about? The SDE 3 will design and deploy multi-agent AI workflows while owning the end-to-end lifecycle of complex services and integrations. They will also provide technical leadership by mentoring junior engineers and driving internal AI adoption strategies.

Washington, District of Columbia
On-site
$122K – $146K
Full-time
5-10 years exp

Skills required

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Company

About WEXWEXUS WEX (NYSE: WEX) is the global commerce platform that simplifies the business of running a business. WEX has created a powerful ecosystem that offers seamlessly embedded, personalized solutions for its customers around the world. Through its rich data and specialized expertise in simplifying benefits, reimagining mobility and paying and getting paid, WEX aims to make it easy for companies to overcome complexity and reach their full potential. For more information, please visit www.wexinc.com.

WEXWEXUS

Fleet paymentsHeathcare paymentsTravel paymentsVirtual paymentsCorporate payment solutionsFinancial technologyBenefitsMobilityand Pay and Get Paid
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5,001-10,000 employees
Software Development
Public Company
Raised $900M

Responsibilities

  • Agentic Workflows: Design and deploy multi-agent workflows within AWS Agent Core, effectively handling state management, memory persistence, and complex tool interactions.
  • AI Leadership & Enablement: Help drive internal education and coaching initiatives for tools with as Google Gemini Enterprise; collaborate with external AI partners on new agentic opportunities.
  • End-to-End Ownership: Design, build, and own the lifecycle of entire services and cross-platform integrations. Solve complex system gaps and drive overarching audit strategies.
  • Strategic Data Orchestration: Make critical trade-off decisions on data orchestration (e.g., MCP/API, Agents/Skills) based on robust data and requirements.
  • Resilient Design: Build systems that handle failure gracefully by implementing retries, circuit breakers, and fallbacks. Ensure all designs are testable and maintainable long-term.
  • Security First: Review code for security flaws and ensure all services adhere strictly to WEX’s authentication standards (e.g., OAuth scopes).
  • Cost-Aware Cloud Architecture: Design reliable cloud infrastructure (e.g., auto-scaling groups, failover strategies) while proactively avoiding resource over-provisioning.
  • Deployment & Environment Management: Own the automated deployment package and metadata framework. Write scripts or automation manifests to deploy configurations cleanly across sandbox tiers, preventing environment drift.
  • CI/CD Optimization: Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, focusing heavily on reducing build times and tightening feedback loops.
  • Root Cause Resolution: Capable of solving complex bugs (intermittent issues, race conditions, memory leaks), ensuring the root cause is fixed permanently.
  • Incident & Operations Leadership: Own Incidents for your services during outages. Create step-by-step triage runbooks and playbooks that empower Tier 1/2 helpdesk teams or junior analysts to resolve common platform errors without escalation.
  • Requirement Definition: Partner with Product Managers who define Functional requirements by owning the Non-Functional requirements (Performance, Security, Scalability) needed to meet business KPIs.
  • Backlog & Scope Negotiation: Work with PMs to prioritize the backlog, explicitly negotiating the inclusion of "Tech Debt" and "Refactoring" by explaining long-term business risks. Negotiate "Must Haves" vs. "Nice to Haves" to ensure sprint achievability.
  • Solution-Oriented Mindset: You don't say "No"; you say "Not like that." You offer alternative solutions that respect time and budget constraints.
  • Empathic Mentorship & Review: Enforce strict quality standards during code reviews with empathy ("Check tone"). Reject sloppy or brittle "quick fixes" while setting the organizational standard for clean design patterns. Proactively mentor SDE 1s and 2s, delegating work specifically to help them grow.
  • Consensus Building: Facilitate data-driven discussions to resolve engineering disagreements, effectively de-escalating "religious wars" about technology and ensuring "quiet" voices are heard in design meetings.
  • Continuous Learning: Rapidly learn and apply new languages or frameworks, lead knowledge-sharing sessions, seek out critical feedback, and context-switch effectively across workstreams when project parameters change.
  • The base pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay rates will vary and will be based on various factors, such as your qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. Base pay is one component of WEX's total compensation package. Most sales positions are eligible for commission under the terms of an applicable plan. Non-sales roles are typically eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus based on their role and applicable plan. WEX's comprehensive and market competitive benefits are designed to support your personal and professional well-being. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurances, retirement savings plan, paid time off, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more. For more information, check out the "About Us" section.

Qualification

TechnologySoftwareEngineeringData & AnalyticsManagement & Leadership

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid time off
  • Health savings account
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement

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