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[/company/wex-inc-5a5241c0](/company/wex-inc-5a5241c0)[WEX Inc](/company/wex-inc-5a5241c0)
# Principal Software Engineer, Semantic Data Services at WEX Inc

Compensation · Listed in posting

$200,600 – $250,400/yr

**Location**
: Portland, Maine · San Francisco, California · +2

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: staff+

**Posted**
: Aug 21, 2026

## Description

WEX is hiring a Principal Software Engineer, Semantic Data Services to define and build the architecture and reusable semantic data platform for its enterprise Data-as-a-Service offering. The role combines senior technical leadership with hands-on engineering across semantic modeling, ontologies, metadata, knowledge graphs, data quality, lineage, governance, APIs, and distributed systems, while partnering with business, product, AI, analytics, risk, finance, and other teams. Candidates need 10+ years of relevant software, data, distributed systems, or platform experience, with strong architectural judgment, cross-team influence, and the ability to translate complex business concepts into scalable technical capabilities.

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