Senior Analytics Engineer

PayNearMe develops technology to facilitate the end-to-end customer payment experience, making it easy for businesses to accept, disburse and manage payments. Our modern and reliable platform lowers the total cost of payments by increasing acceptance rates, driving self-service and simplifying exceptions. We future-proof our clients’ payments roadmap by including all payment types and channels through a single contract and integration. With PayNearMe, businesses can transform the outdated systems holding them back from achieving progress.

PayNearMe has over 200 employees, closed a $45M Series D round in June 2023 and is processing over $30B in payments annually. We’re headquartered in Silicon Valley with our employees distributed all across the U.S. Help us solve our clients’ biggest payment problems.

We’re looking to add a dynamic Senior Analytics Engineer, reporting to our Senior Director of Data.

About our Data Stack

• Cloud Provider: AWS
• Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Extract/Load: Fivetran
• Transform: dbt
• Data Warehouse: Snowflake
• BI Visualization: Looker
• Code versioning: Gitlab
• Preferred languages: SQL and Python
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• Data Quality Monitoring: Monte Carlo

As our Senior Analytics Engineer, you will focus on ensuring the seamless flow of data from source systems through our data warehouses to our data consumers.  You will deliver data products to internal company employees as well as build data products for our external customers. You will develop and implement data quality monitoring solutions to ensure the reliability of our data.  You will uphold data governance principles to ensure that data is managed, protected, and distributed appropriately across the organization.  You will support our internal BI and reporting tools.  You will collaborate closely with your team to design and implement these systems, ensuring seamless interaction with teams at each step of the data flow.

You will deliver comprehensive analytics by transforming and modeling data using Snowflake, dbt, and Looker. 

Our goals are

• Work with engineering teams to promote database design best practices
• Capture important business data from our source systems into our data lake
• Design and implement data transformations to support data analytics
• Build out a semantic layer to support BI and reporting tools
• Maintain and enhance data quality monitoring systems
• Implement data governance best practices
• Support our internal BI and reporting tools. 
• Provide state-of the art analytics to all stakeholders
• Provide leadership in terms of technical design as well as mentoring team members.

At least 5 years experience in analytics engineering including

• Strong experience with dbt or similar tools for moving, storing and transforming data
• Proficiency in at least one SQL variant (we use MySQL and SnowSQL), and writing performant queries
• Expert at data warehouse modeling and techniques
• Highly collaborative team player with team leadership skills
• Strong programming experience, preferably in Python, or other object oriented language
• Build highly reliable systems
• Strong diagnostic skills
• Strong organizational and communication skills

Benefits

• Base salary per year (paid semi-monthly)
• Fast- paced and professional work culture
• Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total
• $50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill
• $250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup
• Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)
• Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Paid parental bonding leave
• Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement
• 401k plan
• Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)
• Volunteer Time Off
• 13 scheduled holidays
• 2x / year in-person team meet-ups 

Salary Range: $150,000 - 170,000

PayNearMe strives to create a workplace where all employees thrive. Our core values represent who we are today and we take pride in the way we work with each other as well as with our stakeholders.

We’re in this together to do the right thing. We deliver real results we are proud of while remaining respectful, transparent, and flexible.

PayNearMe is an equal opportunity employer. We are diligently and thoughtfully working towards cultivating a diverse workforce which in turn, enhances our products and services for the communities we serve. Applicants who represent all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

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