Staff Data Acquisition Platform Engineer — Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

WEX, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Data Acquisition Team. This remote role requires residing within 30 miles of Portland, ME; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; San Francisco Bay Area, CA; or Seattle, WA.

You will own data ingestion platforms, lead architecture, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable, scalable pipelines. You will design batch, CDC, and streaming patterns, ensure data quality and security, and drive automated testing and deployment.

Qualifications

• B.Sc. in CS, Eng or related field.
• 8+ years in software engineering, distributed systems.
• Strong Python/Java/Scala skills.
• Experience with data ingestion pipelines.
• Solid fundamentals: version control, testing, performance.
• Experience with schema evolution, failure recovery.
• Ability to lead architecture decisions.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Collaborative across domains and ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-performance data acquisition pipelines.
• Lead modular ingestion platform design with reusable connectors.
• Add schema validation, reconciliation, audit logging.
• Support retries, backfills, and safe data recovery.
• Design batch, CDC, and streaming ingestion patterns.
• Ensure traceability, lineage, security with governance systems.
• Lead design reviews and mentor engineers.
• Establish automated testing and CI/CD for ingestion code.
• Partner with production support for escalations and improvements.

Skills

B.Sc. in CS

8+ years

Python

Java

Scala

Data pipelines

Architecture decisions

Observability

Secure access

Education

B.Sc. in CS or related field

Job description

WEX, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Data Acquisition Team. This remote role requires residing within 30 miles of Portland, ME; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; San Francisco Bay Area, CA; or Seattle, WA.

You will own data ingestion platforms, lead architecture, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable, scalable pipelines. You will design batch, CDC, and streaming patterns, ensure data quality and security, and drive automated testing and deployment.