Senior Software Engineer - Data Acquisition

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-performance data acquisition pipelines that integrate with a variety of systems across WEX and third-party vendors.
• Contribute to the development of a modular ingestion platform that enables reusability, reliability, and observability at scale.
• Implement core pipeline components such as schema validation, transformation orchestration, error handling, and audit logging.
• Support batch and streaming ingestion flows, ensuring the platform meets varying latency and volume requirements across business units.
• Ensure traceability, lineage, and security through integration with control plane and governance systems.
• Participate in code reviews, design sessions, and incident resolution-promoting high standards for code quality and operational reliability.

Requirements

• 4-8 years of experience as a software or data engineer, ideally in high-volume or distributed systems environments.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Scala, or another systems-focused language.
• Experience with data integration and ingestion pipelines, understanding how to bring data from source systems, transform it, and deliver it reliably downstream.
• Solid grasp of engineering fundamentals, including version control, modular design, testing, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with concepts like schema evolution, event-driven architectures, observability, and role-based access control.
• A collaborative mindset, comfortable working across domains, products, and infrastructure layers.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability, caring deeply about building lasting systems.

Benefits & Perks

• Health, dental, and vision insurances
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid time off
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Comprehensive and market competitive benefits