Associate Software Engineer Jobs in Fairfield, CA

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Job Description

Contributes to team success through a strong understanding of team's technical area and processes, requiring little assistance from teammates. Demonstrates ability to take features and strategically break them down into understandable, workable units for WEX Health teams.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Team Collaboration

  • Support applications both during and outside business hours.

  • Research issues and Service Requests timely to resolution, independently and efficiently. Engage in discussions and propose solutions.

  • Support production deployments, which occur on evenings and weekends. Contribute to post-deployment application validation. Troubleshoot, evaluate, and resolve any issues that arise.

  • Participate in team meetings and feature discussions.

• Software Design and Architecture

  • Create basic designs for new and existing features.

• Develop solutions, with guidance from teammates, that can be performant, scalable, consistent, and supportable. Using the available scope, time and budget.

• Participate in code reviews within the team to ensure implementations adhere to goals, standards, and best practices.

• Deliver software that meets requirements by learning the product area to provide the best long-term solutions.

• Write code that is testable at all levels (unit, integration, and end-to-end.)

• Understand unit test coverage and add to it.

• Review requirements and provide meaningful and timely feedbackto improve them.

• Ask questions to ensure requirements are feasible, implementation is efficient, and the design is aligned with the technical direction set by your team and Architects.

• Participate in estimation and prioritization of project requests.

• Build relationships with Architects, Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Business Analysts to collaborate on design and delivery decisions.

• Project Implementation

  • Contribute to the prioritization of performance improvements and technical debt.

  • Understand common security vulnerabilities and best practices defined by Architects to reduce risk of security threats.

  • Design and develop technical solutions in all environments, resulting in an increased level of throughput.

• Product Proficiency

  • Understand your team's product domain.

  • Basic knowledge of one other product domain.

  • Able to discuss application behavior and technology outside of the Development department in both a technical and business communication style.

• Leadership

  • Step into other roles to ensure project deadlines are met.

  • Serve as a mentor with an ability to onboard new Software Engineers ensuring they have the proper tools and knowledge to become productive quickly.

  • Provide technical and domain guidance to internal team members.

  • Lead features or components through the full software deployment lifecycle, including integration, customer feedback, release, and support phases.

  • Recommend ways to increase development efficiency.

• Perform effectively in a cross-functional team environment to ensure successful execution and delivery of project commitments.

• Demonstrate expertise in a domain as evidenced by others seeking your peer reviews, advice, and problem solving.

• Communicate priorities and dependencies across teams to ensure successful execution and delivery of commitments.

  • Build relationships with Business Analysts, Quality Assurance Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, Support, Management, Configuration Management, Database Administrators, etc.

Qualifications and Skills

• 2 - 4 years of relevant experience typical in this role

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

• Experience with tools and programming languages defined by Development Managers specific to their teams

• Basic knowledge in Software Development Fundamentals and Process, Design, Documentation, Testing, and tools

• Effective in distributed team environment

• Strong oral and written communication skills

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.Pay Range: $96,100.00 - $115,500.00