Staff Data Acquisition Engineer — Remote

WEX Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 141,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

WEX Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Data Acquisition to own the technical direction of core data ingestion capabilities. You will remain hands-on while guiding architecture decisions, building reusable ingestion services, and mentoring engineers across teams.

The role emphasizes batch, CDC, and streaming ingestion with strong focus on data quality, reliability, security, and cost. Remote with proximity requirements within the US to major hubs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering production distributed systems or data platforms.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across team boundaries.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Scala, or similar languages.
• Experience with data integration and ingestion pipelines ensuring reliable downstream delivery.
• Solid grasp of engineering fundamentals: version control, modular design, testing, and performance tuning.
• Experience designing/operating production integrations handling schema evolution, failure recovery, observability, and secure access.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-performance data acquisition pipelines integrating with various systems and vendors.
• Lead design and delivery of a modular ingestion platform with reusable connectors and configuration-driven onboarding.
• Establish metadata/configuration patterns to reduce source-specific development and support Data Acquisition as a Service.
• Implement schema validation, completeness checks, reconciliation, deduplication, and audit logging in ingestion components.
• Support safe retries, replay, backfills, and schema evolution to recover from failures without data loss or duplication.
• Design batch, CDC, and streaming ingestion patterns meeting freshness, throughput, and recovery goals.
• Ensure traceability, lineage, and security through governance integrations.
• Lead architecture decisions, code reviews, and mentor engineers; drive testing and CI/CD practices.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

Distributed systems

Data ingestion pipelines

Architecture leadership

CI/CD

Testing

Mentoring

Observability

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science

M.Sc. preferred

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

WEX Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Data Acquisition to own the technical direction of core data ingestion capabilities. You will remain hands-on while guiding architecture decisions, building reusable ingestion services, and mentoring engineers across teams.

The role emphasizes batch, CDC, and streaming ingestion with strong focus on data quality, reliability, security, and cost. Remote with proximity requirements within the US to major hubs.