Senior Software Engineer | Advanced Data Engineering

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; and San Francisco Bay Area, CA. ​

About the Team/Role
 

We are looking for a highly motivated and highly potential Senior Staff Engineer to join our Data team to make big business impacts and grow your career. 

This is an exciting time to be part of the Data team at WEX. WEX offers sophisticated business solutions that empower diverse customers. The data generated from these systems, applications, and platforms is rich and complex. As one of the most valuable assets of WEX, this data holds immense potential to drive value for our customers and the business.

The Data team's mission is to build big data technologies, platforms, systems, and tools that clean, process, enrich, and optimize core company data, making it easy and efficient to use. This enables both our customers and internal teams to unlock business value. We also create value-added data products for WEX customers. Leveraging modern big data and AI technologies, we employ agile development practices, a combined engineering approach, and the product operating model to drive innovation and efficiency.

We provide challenging problems that have significant business impact, offering you opportunities to learn and grow. Our team consists of highly skilled engineers and leaders who will support, guide, and coach you throughout your journey.

If you're driven to become a strong engineer capable of solving complex problems, delivering impactful solutions, and growing quickly, this is the ideal opportunity for you!

How you’ll make an impact

• Collaborate with partners and stakeholders to understand customers’ business challenges and key requirements.

• Design, test, code, and instrument complex data products, systems, platforms, and pipelines. Ensure high-quality, scalable, reliable, secure, cost-effective, and user-friendly solutions.

• Utilize data to drive decisions by effectively measuring and analyzing outcomes.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD automation using tools like GitHub Actions.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, including provisioning and managing cloud-based data infrastructure.

• Apply software development methodologies such as TDD, BDD, and Microservice/Event-Oriented Architectures to ensure efficiency, reliability, quality, and scalability.

• Support live data products, systems, and platforms by promoting proactive monitoring, ensuring high data quality, rapid incident response, and continuous improvement.

• Analyze data, systems, and processes independently to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement. Lead complex problem diagnostics and drive timely resolutions.

• Mentor peers and foster continuous learning of new technologies within the team and the broader organization, consistently upholding high technical standards.

• Attract top industry talent; contribute to interviews and provide timely, high-quality feedback.

• Serve as a role model by adhering to team processes and best practices, ensuring your solutions effectively solve customer and business problems in a reliable and sustainable way.

• Collaborate with or lead peers in completing complex tasks, ensuring timely and effective execution.

• Lead a Scrum team with hands-on involvement, ensuring high-quality and timely development and delivery aligned with agile best practices.

• Own large, complex systems, platforms, and products, driving future developments and ensuring they deliver measurable business value.

• Lead and actively participate in technical discussions, ensuring the team stays at the forefront of industry advancements.

• Design and build high-performance, reliable systems with attention to detail and craftsmanship.

• Complete large, complex tasks independently, seeking feedback from senior peers to maintain high quality.

• Proactively identify and communicate project dependencies.

• Review peer work, providing constructive feedback to promote continuous improvement.

• Build scalable, secure, and high-qualit