Software Engineer, Data Platform

About Us

At Pagos, we’re passionate about empowering businesses to take control of their payments stack and solve the puzzles standing between them and optimized growth. Our global platform provides developers, product teams, and payments leaders with both a deeper understanding of their payments data and access to new payments technology through user-friendly tools that are easy to implement. To succeed in this, we need creative thinkers who are willing to roll up their sleeves and start building alongside us.

About the Team

The Pagos Data Platform team builds the infrastructure powering our payments data observability, insights, benchmarking, and streaming solutions. Pagos has collected incredibly rich payments data from leading merchants, card networks, and fraud services, which allows us to deliver meaningful insights that directly impact our customers. 

Geographically, we’re spread out across North America and Europe. As a remote team, we prioritize working asynchronously and place high value on fostering a collaborative environment. We are passionate about working from end to end and delivering high quality, scalable solutions. Our days are filled with building complex data pipelines, aggregating data sets, building powerful APIs, and creating data connections that power our core products.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer on our Data Platform team, you’ll play a key part in designing, building, and maintaining the data platform and backend for our products. This is an opportunity to work with cutting edge technology that transforms rich data into actionable intelligence for our customers. You will collaborate with Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product Managers to build new features, modules, and extensions for our system. 

We’re seeking an action-oriented and collaborative problem solver who thrives in ambiguity and can take on new challenges with optimism in a fast-paced environment. We value team members who are not only skilled in their area of expertise but are also perpetual learners who’re committed to growth and contributing to our collective success.

In this role, you will:

• Craft high quality code for scale, availability, and performance

• Collaborate with Engineers, Data Scientists/Data Analysts, and the Product team to build high-performing, customer-focused solutions 

• Drive engineering projects from start to finish with a high level of ownership

• Ensure the quality of our product through code reviews, testing, and bug fixing

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone with:

• 8+ years of software development experience with a proven track record of developing and scaling high-availability systems

• Strong expertise in backend development with .NET/C#, Python or NodeJS/Typescript, or a desire to and track-record of learning new tools 

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and common data-related services (e.g. S3, Redshift, EMR, Glue, Kinesis, Athena)

• Advanced experience with complex SQL queries and database/lakehouse technologies such as Redshift, Snowflake, Clickhouse, Apache Druid, and Postgres

• A bias for action, where no task is too small

Nice to haves: 

• Experience with managing infrastructure, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, Terraform Cloud

• Experience working in high growth, venture-backed startup(s)

• Prior experience with fintech, trading, or transaction/payments data for optimization, fraud, recommendation, routing, or tracking

Pagos does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiting agencies. All interested candidates are encouraged to apply directly.