WEX is looking to scale its Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform and needs a Senior Staff Software Engineer to architect and lead the next evolution of its data acquisition platform to handle billions of records across diverse systems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software or platform engineering with a focus on distributed systems, high-volume data processing, or data platform architecture.
- Deep understanding of data acquisition patterns at scale—including change data capture (CDC), event-driven ingestion, streaming frameworks, and asynchronous integration models.
- Strong architectural experience with large-scale systems—you’ve built or led platforms that handle tens of millions to billions of records per day.
- Experience building internal data platforms or ingestion frameworks that abstract complexity and accelerate domain adoption.
- Strong programming expertise in a systems language (e.g., Python, Java, Scala, or Go).
- Strong appreciation for platform reliability, security, testability, and documentation as part of scalable engineering.
- Experience integrating with a variety of source systems (e.g., CRM, ERP, telemetry, external APIs), and solving for schema evolution, observability, and error recovery.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable, high-throughput data acquisition systems that integrate internal and external data sources across domains.
- Architect core platform components—such as data routing, transformation orchestration, lineage tracking, and schema evolution—using sound software engineering principles.
- Implement a modular ingestion framework capable of supporting streaming and batch pipelines with varying latencies and SLAs.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and establish best practices in code quality, performance optimization, testing, and platform observability.
- Collaborate with domain teams to understand data integration needs and accelerate onboarding through reusable patterns and automation.
- Partner closely with the Control Plane and DataOps teams to integrate orchestration, lineage, access control, and validation into the core ingestion process.
Other
- This is a remote position; however, the candidate must reside within 30 miles of one of the following locations: Portland, ME; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; San Francisco Bay Area, CA; and Seattle/WA.
- Excellent communication skills and a passion for building platforms that empower others
