DataOps Engineer

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PayNearMe

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $50M Series E - PayNearMe on 2025-09

Fintech • SaaS • B2B

PayNearMe is a payments technology company that provides a modern, end-to-end platform for businesses to accept, disburse and manage payments. The platform emphasizes Payment Experience Management, offering features such as modern payment processing, automation and self-service, exception management, and a cash-at-retail network. PayNearMe targets business customers across industries (auto & consumer lending, tolling, iGaming, buy-here-pay-here dealers, credit unions, mortgage servicing, law firms, etc. ) and advertises metrics including 16+ years in operation, $50B+ processed annually, 16,000+ businesses on its platform, and 62,000+ cash-at-retail locations. Money transmission services are provided by its subsidiaries PayNearMe MT, Inc. and PayNearMe Financial, Inc.

📋 Description

• Assist senior engineers in the design of data models and schemas, and participate in code walk-throughs. • Support performance tuning efforts on SQL queries regarding applications, storage, and network. • Explore and utilize AI-powered tools and automation solutions to increase efficiency in DataOps workflows and reduce manual toil. • Follow established processes for data quality, data governance, testing, and on-going monitoring. • Assist in the analysis of current systems and support the implementation of database designs to support our business applications. • Adhere to established data models, modeling naming standards, abbreviations, guidelines, and best practices. • Assist in translating logical data models and implementing physical database structures. • Monitor data service costs and flag potential cost inefficiencies to senior team members. • Maintain and update documentation for database architectures.

🎯 Requirements

• At least 3 years of cloud database design & implementation experience including: • Proficiency with SQL database solutions including Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, and Snowflake • Proficiency with SQL and writing performant queries; we use MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SnowSQL • Proficiency with database IAC frameworks; we use Terraform/OpenTofu • Strong experience with relational database design and data modeling techniques • Familiarity with leveraging AI-powered tools and scripting for automation in areas like monitoring, alerting, or system maintenance • Experience with data security and data governance techniques • Experience monitoring database systems and independently researching and resolving incidents; we use AWS services such as RDS Database Insights and CloudWatch as well as Datadog • AWS Certification preferred • Highly collaborative team player • Strong programming experience, preferably in Python, or other object oriented language • Build highly reliable systems • Strong diagnostic skills • Strong organizational and communication skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits with growth-company options grant • 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