Key skills
Data acquisition architectureDistributed systemsHigh-volume data processingStreaming frameworksPythonJavaScalaGoData platform architectureMentoring engineersPlatform reliabilitycommunicationDocumentationPerformance OptimizationCRMERPLeadershipCommunication
About this role
WEX is a company focused on scaling its Data-as-a-Service platform, and they are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the evolution of their data acquisition platform. The role involves architecting a flexible ingestion framework and ensuring data quality while collaborating with various teams to meet data integration needs.
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
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in software or platform engineering with a focus on distributed systems, high-volume data processing, or data platform architecture
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required
- 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
- Excellent communication skills and a passion for building platforms that empower others
- Masters degree preferred