Staff Data Platform Engineer – Ingestion & Pipelines (Remote)

WEX; Texas; Remote; USD 141,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

HSA / FSA

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

WEX is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Data Acquisition Team. This remote role permits residency within 30 miles of specified U.S. locations, with the team building the Data-as-a-Service platform that ingests, validates, and orchestrates data from many sources.

You will own technical direction, remain hands-on, and guide engineers across teams. Focus areas include batch, CDC, and event-driven ingestion, data quality, and cost efficiency, shaping analytics and product intelligence

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering production distributed systems or data platforms.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Scala, or similar language.
• Experience with data integration and ingestion pipelines and reliable downstream delivery.
• Solid grasp of engineering fundamentals: version control, modular design, testing, performance tuning.
• Experience designing/operating production integrations handling schema evolution, failure recovery, observability, and secure access.
• Ability to lead architecture decisions, explain tradeoffs, manage dependencies, and drive production adoption.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools with validation for correctness and security.
• Collaborative, ownership-driven mindset across domains, products, and infra.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-performance data acquisition pipelines across diverse systems.
• Lead design and delivery of a modular ingestion platform with reusable connectors.
• Integrate schema validation, completeness checks, reconciliation, and audit logging.
• Support safe retries, replay, backfills, and schema evolution in ingestions.
• Design batch, CDC, and streaming ingestion patterns with required freshness and throughput.
• Ensure traceability, lineage, and security through governance integration.
• Lead design reviews, document architectural decisions, and mentor engineers.
• Establish automated testing and CI/CD for ingestion code and infra with pre-prod validation.
• Collaborate with production support on escalations and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

Data ingestion

Distributed systems

Architecture decisions

CI/CD

Observability

Ownership

Education

B.Sc in Computer Science

M.Sc is a plus

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

WEX is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Data Acquisition Team. This remote role permits residency within 30 miles of specified U.S. locations, with the team building the Data-as-a-Service platform that ingests, validates, and orchestrates data from many sources.

You will own technical direction, remain hands-on, and guide engineers across teams. Focus areas include batch, CDC, and event-driven ingestion, data quality, and cost efficiency, shaping analytics and product intelligence