Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with an ambitious mission to revolutionize the payroll & payments industry. With over $400M raised from multiple tier-one investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, encompassing everything from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.
We are looking for a motivated Data Engineer to join our growing Data team. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a core group responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling our data platform, while working closely with Product, Engineering, and business teams.
You will play a key role in developing reliable data pipelines, ensuring data quality and consistency, and enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and data models to support analytics and reporting needs
- Work with structured data across databases, data lakes, and data warehouses
- Write efficient and maintainable SQL and Python code for data transformation and validation
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and basic data lineage across systems
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements
- Support dashboards and reporting tools by providing clean, well-modeled data
- Contribute to improving data standards, documentation, and best practices
- 1–3 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related role
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative, technical, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong SQL skills with hands-on experience in data querying and transformations
- Experience using Python (or similar) for data processing and automation
- Familiarity with modern data platforms, including data warehouses, databases, and data lakes
- (e.g. Snowflake, Postgres, BigQuery)
- Experience with data transformation and modeling tools such as dbt or SQLMesh
- Familiarity with BI and visualization tools (Tableau, Superset, or similar)
- Detail-oriented, collaborative, with strong communication skills
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or similar
- Proficiency with Git/GitHub for version control and collaboration
- Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban) with cross-functional teams
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What We Do
Imagine controlling all your global payroll and payments from a single place, supported by certified experts who keep you compliant in every country, even when laws change. No more juggling third parties. No more foreign bank accounts. No more repetitive manual work. Finally, there’s one platform that gives you total control of your global operations, from creating local contracts automatically to paying workers in the local currency of 160+ countries. It’s called Papaya Global, and we’d love to show it to you. Papaya Global: How the world gets paid
