Staff Software Engineer – Data Acquisition

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💵 $140.6k - $173.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🚰 Data Engineer

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WEX

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1983

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

✈️ Travel

💰 $310M Post-IPO Debt on 2020-06

Healthcare • Logistics • Travel

WEX is a global commerce platform specializing in various business solutions to address operational challenges. They provide services in managing and mobilizing fleets with their fuel card systems, offering comprehensive fleet management and analytics. Additionally, they focus on business payments solutions that streamline processes across industries, enhancing efficiency and security. WEX is also involved in employee benefits administration, helping organizations effectively manage health and reimbursement accounts. Their diverse range of services caters to numerous sectors, emphasizing innovation, sustainability, and effective solutions for business growth.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain high-performance data acquisition pipelines integrating systems across WEX and third-party vendors • Lead design and delivery of a modular ingestion platform with reusable connectors and configuration-driven onboarding • Establish metadata and configuration patterns to reduce source-specific development and support Data Acquisition as a Service • Build schema validation, completeness checks, reconciliation, duplicate prevention, and audit logging into shared ingestion components • Support safe retries, replay, backfills, and schema evolution • Design batch, CDC, and streaming ingestion patterns meeting freshness, throughput, and recovery requirements • Evaluate performance, source-system impact, and operating cost when selecting and extending ingestion technologies • Ensure traceability, lineage, and security through integration with control plane and governance systems • Lead design and code reviews • Maintain technical specifications and architectural decisions • Mentor engineers in reusable platform design • Establish automated testing and CI/CD practices for ingestion code, connector configuration, and infrastructure • Partner with production support on complex escalations, root-cause analysis, and preventive engineering improvements • Establish baselines and outcomes with engineering and product leadership, including reducing onboarding effort, increasing reusable capability adoption, improving data completeness and freshness, and reducing deployment failures

🎯 Requirements

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field • 8+ years of software engineering experience • Experience delivering production distributed systems or data platforms • Demonstrated technical leadership across team boundaries • Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Scala, or another systems-focused language • Experience with data integration and ingestion pipelines • Solid engineering fundamentals, including version control, modular design, testing, and performance tuning • Experience designing and operating production integrations handling schema evolution, failure recovery, observability, and secure access • Ability to lead architecture decisions, explain engineering tradeoffs, resolve cross-team dependencies, and guide implementation through production adoption • Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools for design, coding, testing, or documentation • Validation of AI-generated outputs for correctness, security, and maintainability • Collaborative mindset across domains, products, and infrastructure layers • Strong ownership and accountability • Candidate must reside within 30 miles of Portland, ME; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; San Francisco Bay Area, CA; or Seattle, WA • M.Sc. in a related field is a plus but not required • Experience building reusable connectors, metadata-driven ingestion services, or configuration-driven onboarding capabilities is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurances • Retirement savings plan • Paid time off • Health savings account • Flexible spending accounts • Life insurance • Disability insurance • Tuition reimbursement • Quarterly or annual bonus eligibility for non-sales roles