Staff Data Engineer
PayNearMe, Inc.
| Company | PayNearMe, Inc. |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Remote |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 10 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
Company Description
At PayNearMe, we’re on a mission to make paying and getting paid as simple as possible. We build innovative technology that transforms the way businesses and their customers experience payments. Our industry-leading platform, PayXM™, is the first of its kind—designed to manage the entire payment experience from start to finish. Every click, swipe or tap is seamless, fast and secure, helping non-commerce businesses boost customer satisfaction, accelerate payments, and reduce costs.
Our single platform handles it all: cards, ACH, digital wallets such as PayPal, Venmo, Cash App Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and even cash at more than 62,000 retail locations nationwide. Today, thousands of businesses across consumer lending, iGaming and online sports betting, property management, and tolling trust PayNearMe to deliver a payment experience that drives real results.
In September 2025, we raised a $50 million Series E funding round to accelerate our growth.
We’re a team of 300+ employees across 41 states, headquartered in Silicon Valley with satellite offices in Dallas, TX and Holmdel, NJ.
Join us and be part of a team that’s shaping the future of payments—one experience at a time.
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, RDS Database Insights, and Datadog
Responsibilities:
As a Staff Data Engineer, you will provide technical leadership in the design, development, and evolution of PayNearMe's modern data platform and data products. You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Risk, Finance, Operations, and Analytics teams to model complex payment data into trusted, governed, and reusable data products that power reporting, analytics, operational intelligence, AI, and customer-facing applications.
This role requires deep expertise in enterprise data modeling, modern cloud data engineering, and payment data. You'll lead the design of scalable data models across the Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers of our lakehouse architecture while establishing engineering best practices and mentoring other engineers through technical leadership..
Enterprise Data Modeling
Lead the design and implementation of scalable data models across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers Collaborate with business stakeholders, product managers, and engineering teams to understand business processes and translate them into well-designed analytical data models.
Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models supporting enterprise reporting, operational analytics, and AI initiatives
Develop reusable semantic models that provide consistent business definitions and metrics across the organization
Apply dimensional modeling best practices including:
Fact and dimension modeling
Star and snowflake schemas
Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD)
Conformed dimensions
Semantic layer design
Ensure data models are scalable, maintainable, performant, and easily consumable
Data Engineering & Data Products
Design, build, and optimize cloud-native ELT pipelines using dbt, Fivetran, Python, and AWS Airflow
Build trusted, reusable data products supporting:
Payment and transaction analytics
Merchant reporting
Customer insights
Financial reporting
Fraud and risk analytics
Regulatory reporting
Capture and transform transactional payment data from operational systems into curated analytical datasets
Design highly performant incremental data pipelines capable of processing high-volume payment transactions
Optimize query performance and execution
Payment Data Expertise
Develop a deep understanding of PayNearMe's payment ecosystem, including payment lifecycle
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