Staff Data Ingestion Platform Engineer (Remote)

WEX, Inc.; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 141,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Health Savings Account

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

WEX, Inc. in Boston area is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical direction and delivery of core data acquisition capabilities. You will stay hands-on while guiding architecture, building reusable ingestion services, and mentoring engineers across teams.

You will work on batch, CDC, and event-driven ingestion with a focus on data quality, reliability, security, and cost, contributing to the transformation of WEX's data platform and powering analytics across business domains.

Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; M.Sc. is a plus but not required.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering production distributed systems or data platforms with leadership across teams.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Scala, or similar.
• Experience with data integration and ingestion pipelines and delivering data reliably downstream.
• Solid grasp of 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 tradeoffs, resolve dependencies across teams, and drive production adoption.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools for design, coding, testing, or documentation, with validation for correctness, security, and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-performance data acquisition pipelines that integrate with diverse systems and vendors.
• Lead design and delivery of a modular ingestion platform with reusable connectors and configuration-driven onboarding.
• Implement schema validation, completeness checks, reconciliation, duplicate prevention, and audit logging in shared 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 targets; assess performance and cost.
• Ensure traceability, lineage, and security through integration with governance systems.
• Lead design and code reviews, document architectural decisions, and mentor engineers in reusable platform design.
• Establish automated testing and CI/CD for ingestion code, connectors, and infrastructure with production validation.
• Collaborate with production support for escalations, root-cause analysis, and preventive engineering improvements.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

Data ingestion pipelines

Distributed systems

Architecture leadership

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science

M.Sc. a plus

Job description

WEX, Inc. in Boston area is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical direction and delivery of core data acquisition capabilities. You will stay hands-on while guiding architecture, building reusable ingestion services, and mentoring engineers across teams.

You will work on batch, CDC, and event-driven ingestion with a focus on data quality, reliability, security, and cost, contributing to the transformation of WEX's data platform and powering analytics across business domains.