Staff Data Platform Engineer - Lead Ingest & Streaming

WEX; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Retirement Savings Plan

Paid Time Off

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Quarterly Or Annual Bonus

Job summary

WEX seeks a technically hands-on leader to guide the development of a modular data acquisition platform. You will oversee connectors, batch, CDC, and streaming pipelines, drive data quality, security, observability, testing, and recovery practices, and mentor engineers across teams.

You will partner with product and operations to ensure scalable, reliable data integrations and continuously improve production systems using AI-assisted engineering tools.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including production distributed systems or data platforms.
• Strong programming and data integration skills, experience operating secure and observable production integrations.
• Technical leadership abilities and practical experience with AI-assisted engineering tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction and delivery of a modular data acquisition platform, building reusable connectors and reliable batch, CDC, and streaming pipelines.
• Establish data quality, security, observability, testing, and recovery practices while guiding engineers and partnering across teams.

Skills

Data Acquisition

Data Ingestion

Distributed Systems

Python

Java

Scala

Data Integration

Batch Processing

Change Data Capture

Streaming

Schema Evolution

Failure Recovery

Observability

Secure Access

Architecture Leadership

AI-Assisted Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Job description

WEX seeks a technically hands-on leader to guide the development of a modular data acquisition platform. You will oversee connectors, batch, CDC, and streaming pipelines, drive data quality, security, observability, testing, and recovery practices, and mentor engineers across teams.

You will partner with product and operations to ensure scalable, reliable data integrations and continuously improve production systems using AI-assisted engineering tools.