Data Engineer

Responsibilities

First Week:

• Introduce yourself on Slack and meet your team.
• Get oriented in the warehouse, walk through most-used pipelines, read codebase to ask useful questions.
• Ship your first commit to production (bug fix, documentation update, or small improvement).

First Month:

• Get fluent in Airflow setup, Redshift conventions, and DataHub governance tooling.
• Complete first end-to-end pipeline or pipeline change in collaboration with a downstream team (Risk, Marketing, Finance, etc.).
• Start reviewing PRs from other data engineers, providing pragmatic feedback.

First Three Months:

• Be technical lead on a meaningful project from design through implementation, testing, and rollout.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to platform direction.
• Build stakeholder trust so they come to you directly for data issues.

First Year:

• Own a slice of infrastructure roadmap as product scales.
• Become go-to expert on one or more platform areas.
• Help hire and onboard new data engineers.
• Enable teammates to ship projects independently on your services.

Requirements

• Experience with healthy data engineering culture, data quality, pipeline reliability, stakeholder communication.
• Led data pipeline or platform design decisions, including trade-offs.
• Comfort across SQL, Python, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Favorite SQL patterns, modeling approaches, or data craft.

What You'll Learn

• Perpay's payroll-deduction business model and data implications.
• Building reliable data products: scoping, modeling, code review, testing, observability, lineage.
• Data team roadmap and business alignment.
• Stakeholders across Risk, Commerce, Marketing, Ops, Finance.

Compensation & Benefits

• Meaningful compensation and equity.
• Premium medical benefits (fully paid base plan).
• 4% employer 401k match.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Remote weeks around major holidays + extra holidays.
• High quality catered lunch 4 days/week.
• Gym subsidy.
• Paid cell phone + plan.
• Student loan repayment.
• Relocation assistance.
• Generous team member discounts.