Job Description
The Data Foundations Engineer designs and scales modern data architectures powering Wallet, Payments, and Commerce products. This role focuses on building high-performance data pipelines and enabling analytics and ML use cases, with strong fundamentals in data modeling and scalable systems.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Data Engineering & Architecture
• Design and implement scalable batch and near-real-time data pipelines.
• Develop ETL/ELT workflows optimized for performance and cost.
• Implement dimensional data models and standardize business metrics.
• Instrument APIs and user journeys to capture behavioral and transactional data.
Data Governance & Quality
• Ensure data integrity, governance, privacy, and compliance.
• Maintain reliability and availability of mission-critical systems.
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Required Skills & Experience
• Strong SQL proficiency.
• Experience in Python, Scala, or Java.
• Hands-on experience with Spark, Kafka, and Airflow (or similar).
• Strong understanding of data modeling and lakehouse architectures (e.g., Iceberg).
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Comfortable participating in rotating on-call.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Trino, OLAP/NRT systems, Superset or Tableau.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, data observability, infrastructure-as-code.
• Exposure to MLOps and GenAI/RAG pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs (prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG).
• Experience in FinTech, Wallet, or Payments domain.
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.