Senior Software Engineer - Data Acquisition

About this role

About The Role
The
Data Acquisition Team
is the entry point to WEX’s Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform—responsible for ingesting, validating, and orchestrating raw data from dozens of internal systems and third-party providers.
As a
Senior Software Engineer
, you’ll play a key role in designing and building robust, scalable, and extensible pipelines that feed the entire data ecosystem at WEX. You’ll work across multiple data domains and ingestion patterns—batch, streaming, and event-driven—while ensuring quality, performance, and governance are embedded in every step.
WEX is undergoing a data platform transformation—and this team builds the foundation. Every pipeline you create contributes directly to powering analytics, automation, and product intelligence across all business domains.
If you’re passionate about
scaling data platforms from the ground up
, this is your chance to help shape how WEX ingests and leverages its most valuable asset: data.
**What You’ll Do**

• 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.

**What You Bring**

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; M.Sc. a plus but not required.
• +4 years of experience as a software or data engineer, ideally...