Funding Engineering Manager

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Funding Engineering Manager at WEX in Melbourne is a hands-on senior leadership role overseeing an event-driven microservices platform for corporate payments with scale and uptime SLAs. You’ll lead and grow a team, still writing production code and owning architecture, guiding AI-assisted tooling and promoting secure adoption. Success hinges on technical credibility, servant leadership, and balancing fast delivery with reliability metrics like lead time MTTR and change failure rate. Non-negotiables: you write and review production C#/.NET today; you’ve led teams and owned distributed architectures; you’re fluent with CI/CD IaC and AI tools. To apply, showcase concrete outcomes, mentorship, code reviews, and architectural trade-offs, and be ready for a coding exercise and leadership discussion, align fintech experience and emphasize autonomy and psychological safety.

About the Team/Role

You'll lead a dynamic engineering team in our modern payments platform, currently powering corporate payments with plans to expand across all lines of business. Your team builds on an event-driven, microservices architecture in Kubernetes, using Terraform, Kafka, and CI/CD to enable true continuous delivery. You embrace AI-assisted engineering to improve quality, speed, and developer experience, and you guide teams to use these tools responsibly and securely.

As a servant leader who earns trust through technical credibility and genuine investment in your team's growth, you'll set clear technical direction, stay hands-on with the code, and foster an accountable, growth-oriented culture.

You'll tackle complex engineering challenges at scale, processing millions of transactions daily on a cloud-native platform that meets aggressive uptime SLAs. In partnership with Product, you'll align on outcomes and use delivery and reliability metrics to reduce friction and invest in resilient, observable systems. Your work directly impacts WEX's ability to process payments reliably and securely at scale, with opportunities to shape the future architecture of our payments ecosystem.

Who This Role Is For

This role demands genuine strength across both technical delivery and people leadership.

You'll write production code, lead architectural decisions, AND build high-performing teams. If you've moved away from hands-on engineering or prefer to delegate technical decisions entirely, this isn't the right fit. Similarly, if people leadership feels like overhead rather than core to your impact, you'll struggle here.

We're looking for someone who:

• Gets energy from both solving hard technical problems AND watching their people grow

• Can mass context-switch between a gnarly production issue and a difficult 1:1 conversation

• Sees code review as a mentoring opportunity, not a bottleneck to clear

• Believes the best technical decisions come from empowered teams, not top-down mandates

How You'll Make an Impact

Technical Leadership

• Spend meaningful time hands-on each week - writing production code, pairing on complex problems, and leading design sessions

• Be the person your team comes to for hard technical calls - you don't defer every decision to a tech lead

• Own architectural direction and technical roadmap for your team's services

• Model engineering excellence through deep, constructive code reviews that teach as well as critique

• Champion responsible, secure adoption of AI tools across the SDLC to accelerate delivery and improve quality

People Leadership

• Lead with a servant leadership style - you're there to remove obstacles, provide context, and help your team succeed, not to direct every decision

• Build a safe, accountable culture where high standards and psychological safety coexist

• Mentor and grow engineers through regular 1:1s, actionable feedback, and deliberate stretch opportunities

• Enable autonomy by clarifying intent and guardrails, then trusting your team to make decisions

• Have the hard conversations when needed - performance, behaviour, career pivots — with directness and empathy

Delivery & Operations

• Deliver reliably, using meaningful metrics like lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR to drive improvement

• Remove friction by unblocking work, reducing tech debt, and streamlining processes to maintain flow

• Own complex technical, delivery, and operational problems end to end

• Promote resilient architecture and operational excellence across services

• Represent the team with stakeholders to reduce churn, align priorities, and amplify impact

Non-Negotiable Requirements

These aren't "nice to haves" — we assess all of them equally:

• You can write, debug, and review production C#/.NET code today — not five years ago

• You've built and led teams where people grew, stayed, and delivered — you can talk about specific individuals and how you helped them develop

• You've owned architectural decisions for distributed systems and can defend them at a whiteboard, including the trade-offs you made

• You've shipped software using CI/CD, IaC, and modern DevOps practices — not just approved others doing it

• You actively use AI-assisted development tools and can coach others to get real value from them without overreliance

Experience You'll Bring

• 2+ years leading software engineering teams

• 10+ years of software development experience

• Track record of building positive team cultures that balance high expectations with support and growth

• Deep expertise in modern software engineering practices, cloud platforms, and DevOps approaches including test and deployment automation

• Strong understanding of microservice architectures, distributed systems, and building data-intensive applications at scale

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

• Experience with financial or payment systems (preferred)

Technology Stack

You'll work with (and should have experience in most of):

• .NET/C# and TypeScript

• Cloud-native development: Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, containerisation

• Event streaming with Kafka

• Modern frontend technologies (Angular)

• CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code

• Database technologies and data management practices

• AI-assisted developer tools and LLM-based services

What to Expect in Our Process

We assess technical capability and leadership equally — strength in one doesn't compensate for weakness in the other.

• Technical assessment: You'll complete a hands-on coding exercise and walk us through system design decisions you've made, including trade-offs and what you'd do differently

• Leadership scenarios: We'll discuss real situations from your experience — how you've grown people, handled performance issues, navigated conflict, and built culture

• Values alignment: We'll explore how you think about servant leadership, autonomy, and building inclusive teams

What You'll Get

• Scope that matters — your team's work directly impacts payment processing at scale

• Autonomy to shape your team's engineering practices and culture

• The opportunity to stay genuinely hands-on while growing your impact through mentoring, hiring, and platform-wide influence

• An inclusive, high-expectations environment where craft is valued

• Access to the latest tech and AI tooling