Data Engineer

Posted 8 Days Ago
Kansas City, KS, USA
In-Office
100K-125K Annually
Mid level
Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Mobile • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Smarter for government. Easier for everyone.
The Role
Design, build, and maintain ETL/data pipelines and data models (dbt). Work with large datasets across RDBMS and NoSQL, deploy to cloud (AWS preferred), use Python and orchestration tools (Dagster/Prefect/Airflow), support BI/analytics and visualization, and implement data reconciliation for accuracy.
Summary Generated by Built In

PayIt is a fast-growing GovTech company on a mission to modernize how residents interact and transact with government, improving the customer experience and helping our client agencies more efficiently and effectively achieve their missions. Our easy-to-implement platform consolidates government services and payments into one connected experience and enables our clients to drive resident trust, collect revenue quickly, and redeploy their staff to more important challenges. This innovative approach to government service delivery has garnered significant recognition in both the public and private sectors, including our inclusion in the GovTech 100 every year since 2017. PayIt solutions cover services including hunting and fishing licensing, DMV, courts, property tax, utilities, tolling, and more.

Our culture welcomes people who exhibit what we call “PayIt DNA”: High integrity, drive, grit, high aptitude, and team orientation. We are collaborative and passionate about the work we do to improve the lives of our government clients and the end users they serve. We have ambitious scaling goals, and we look for team members who are ready to roll up their sleeves, solve problems, and find new opportunities to win with our clients. And we have a lot of fun together.

In this position, you will work closely with other Data Engineers on your team and members of the broader Engineering organization to ensure that the business has access to high-quality, accurate data via multiple channels (reporting, data visualization tools, data warehouse, BI tools, etc).

Other duties as necessary.

What You’ll Need to Have: 
  1. Strong SQL experience and proven expertise handling large volumes of data, including data modeling with dbt
  2. Expertise in Python with a working knowledge of test-driven development
  3. Experience deploying software to public cloud infrastructure - AWS (preferred), GCP, Azure
  4. Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL and Cloud data storage technologies - AWS DocumentDB, MongoDB, Postgres and Snowflake experience preferred
  5. Experience with building ETL solutions and transforming data between different types of sources
  6. Experience with modern, Python-based data orchestration tools like Dagster, Prefect or Airflow
  7. Experience building solutions for analytical reporting and business intelligence
  8. Experience with a data visualization tool such as Tableau, Apache Superset or Looker
  9. Experience building or working on reconciliation systems that compare data from multiple sources for verification.
Bonus Points For:
  1. Experience working with large-scale distributed systems, developing real-time payments systems, and/or working with financial, accounting, or payments systems
  2. Experience with CI/CD such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins 
  3. Experience working with data lakes and/or data warehouses
  4. Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  5. Knowledge of microservices architectures
  6. Experience developing software professionally following agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban)
Annual Salary Range:
$100,000$125,000 USD

Why Work For Us:

  • Our mission matters. Your work will make life better for our government agency clients and the millions of residents they serve.
  • You’ll do some of the best work of your career here. We tackle complex challenges that are interesting to solve, and you’ll grow a ton working at PayIt 
  • People are our most important resource. Everyone has a voice. Collaboration is our default setting. And we have fun together.
  • We #payitforward with our corporate volunteer program, serving the communities where we work and live.
  • Competitive salaries, excellent benefits, flexible working arrangements, and all the resources you will need to do your best work.

What We Care About:

We hire high aptitude, high integrity people who are great communicators and want to be part of a growing team.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

PayIt is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. 

PayIt is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an email to the People Operations Team and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.  

NOTE: U.S. Citizens and all those authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to provide sponsorship in the United States at this time. PayIt participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here. Canadian Citizens and those authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship are also encouraged to apply.

To all recruitment agencies: PayIt does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers’ alias, PayIt employees or any other company location. PayIt is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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Within the parameters of this position, ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and exercise due care of, company, client, and citizen data that is stored, processed, and transmitted by and for PayIt, as outlined in PayIt’s Business Code of Conduct and Information Security Policies.

Skills Required

  • Strong SQL experience and proven expertise handling large volumes of data, including data modeling with dbt
  • Expertise in Python with a working knowledge of test-driven development
  • Experience deploying software to public cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred; GCP or Azure acceptable)
  • Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL and cloud data storage technologies (AWS DocumentDB, MongoDB, Postgres, Snowflake)
  • Experience building ETL solutions and transforming data between different types of sources
  • Experience with modern Python-based data orchestration tools such as Dagster, Prefect, or Airflow
  • Experience building solutions for analytical reporting and business intelligence
  • Experience with a data visualization tool such as Tableau, Apache Superset, or Looker
  • Experience building or working on reconciliation systems that compare data from multiple sources for verification

PayIt Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about PayIt and has not been reviewed or approved by PayIt.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Pay is presented with clear ranges during hiring, and public ranges for core roles indicate alignment with the Kansas City tech market. This clarity helps candidates assess total compensation elements like base and bonus structure.
  • Healthcare Strength Health benefits include employer-paid options for medical, dental, and vision, along with paid short- and long-term disability. Mental-health access and wellness tools (such as Calm and Rula) are also provided.
  • Parental & Family Support Fully paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents and a structured return-to-work program are highlighted. These policies support family needs alongside flexible work arrangements.

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The Company
HQ: Kansas City, MO
213 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

PayIt enables state and local government agencies to deliver a great resident payments experience that accelerates the shift to digital. Agencies choose PayIt to better achieve their mission through improved operational efficiency, customer support, and resident satisfaction. Our solutions span property tax, courts, utilities, DMV, outdoors, and more. PayIt provides a single resident profile across agencies and jurisdictions, integrates into back-office and adjacent systems, and our team helps clients drive adoption of digital channels. Serving more than 150 million residents in North America, we have received awards from Fast Company and StateScoop, and have been listed in the GovTech 100 for 9 years and counting. PayIt: Smarter for government. Easier for everyone.

Why Work With Us

Our team is a dedicated, passionate group of people. We’re focused on improving access to government — for everyone. Every employee’s talent and enthusiasm helps us achieve our ambitious mission. Some of the things that set us apart: - Flexible schedules - Distributed workforce - No company-wide in-person requirements - Our mission

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