
Staff Software Engineer – Data Platform
WEX
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Portland • California • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $185,000 - $217,400 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead the technical vision, architecture, and strategy for the Data Lake platform
- Drive the development roadmap to deliver a platform that meets both near-term business needs and long-term strategic goals
- Design and lead the implementation of our data lake platform and services
- Challenge the status quo, championing innovative technical solutions that leverage data, AI, and modern engineering practices
- Partner closely with solutions architecture, product, and engineering teams to deeply understand business needs and design effective solutions
- Collaborate with information security to ensure data privacy and access controls are a core part of the platform's design
- Serve as a technical mentor to engineers, providing guidance on engineering principles, best practices, and skills
- Report on the status of development, quality, and system performance to management and partners
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software design and development
- Strong hands-on experience in software development, architecture, deployment, and production operations, preferably with Java / J2EE (Spring/Spring Boot)
- Proficiency in languages like Python is highly desirable
- Deep expertise in building and operating Big Data platforms and large-scale data lakes
- Experience with Data Lakehouse formats such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, or Delta Lake is a significant plus
- Strong understanding of modern data processing tools and services (e.g., Spark, AWS Glue, dbt, Apache Polaris)
- Extensive experience with cloud architecture and services, including AWS (S3, EMR, Kubernetes, Lambda) and Azure
- Deep understanding of CI/CD automation, modern development tools, and frameworks
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- A higher degree is a plus
Benefits
- health, dental and vision insurances
- retirement savings plan
- paid time off
- health savings account
- flexible spending accounts
- life insurance
- disability insurance
- tuition reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software designsoftware developmentarchitecturedeploymentproduction operationsJavaJ2EEPythonBig Data platformsdata lakes
Soft Skills
technical visionmentorshipcollaborationinnovationproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershipstrategic thinkingreportingguidance