Data Engineer

About Relay Payments

Relay Payments is building a modern digital payment network to revolutionize the trucking and logistics industries. Trusted by more than 400,000 drivers, 100,000 carriers, and 2,000 truck stops nationwide, Relay has brought efficiency and automation to an industry historically reliant on cash, checks, and cards. Relay has joined forces with industry leaders like Pilot Company, Maverik, Schneider, Coyote Logistics, Lineage Logistics, and others to provide secure, reliable over-the-road transactions. Founded in 2019, our Atlanta-based fintech includes more than 150 team members and has won awards for product innovation, customer service, and organizational culture. We are a proud sponsor of NASCAR and William Byron from Hendrick Motorsports for 2025. For more information about Relay, visit relaypayments.com.

About The Role

As a Data Engineer at Relay Payments you will be a crucial part of the company's success. You will construct and maintain the data infrastructure that facilitates informed decision-making across all departments, including identifying opportunities for automation and integrating them into data pipelines. In collaboration with analysts, engineers, and business users, you will leverage your expertise to deliver straightforward, maintainable, and user-friendly data products.

• Collaborate with your peers and cross-functional stakeholders to scope, plan, and execute data initiatives that are critical to the success of the organization. Exhibit a bias towards simple, maintainable, and easy to understand deliverables. 
• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines that extract, transform, and load data from diverse sources. Supporting a wide range of data products used across the business. 
• Implement data validation and quality checks to ensure accurate, reliable, and complete data sets. Take ownership of data quality to diagnose risks, advocate for improvements, and implement remediations. 
• Integrate our data with internal systems like Hubspot or Salesforce, injecting data into places where our team lives and works. 
• Peer review code and deliverables from other team members, holding each other accountable to a high standard of work. 
• Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and scalability issues with our current technology footprint.
• Partner with internal users to help them quickly answer data questions when needed.

About You

• 3+ years in a Data Engineering or similar role
• You are proficient with Python with a proven track record of creating simple and resilient pipelines for ingesting, storing, and processing data. 
• You have deep SQL knowledge with the ability to create re-usable, well tested and performant data transformations.
• You’re thoughtful about modeling and structuring data for consumers with an eye toward simplicity and ease of use. 
• You’ve worked with “modern” data stacks in the past (we use Redshift, Airflow, DBT, Looker) but know when you don't need these tools. 
• You’ve built or used CI/CD pipelines to deliver work fast without compromising on quality. 
• You can communicate technical concepts to a wide variety of audiences & stakeholders.
• You can diagnose technical problems, understand the root cause, and deliver a simple solution to resolve the issue. 

Our Core Values

• Invent the Future - We embrace the spirit of invention, the idea that there’s always a better way. Together we dream big, fail fast, drive forward, and find creative solutions where others see roadblocks. We prize grit, resilience and speed as we work to transform our industry and to move it into the future.
  
  
• Own the Work - Our work is a source of personal pride and fulfillment. We’re here because we relish a challenge and enjoy the exercise of proactively identifying and solving problems. We understand the power of accountability and are in constant pursuit of “more and better” for our customers, our partners and ourselves.
  
  
• We’re in it Together - We’re all in, committed to, and driven by our shared ambition and vision; we understand that alignment and collaboration are imperative. We set aside our ego to actively sync with one another, becoming greater than the sum of our parts. We are consistently open and generous with information, clear, concise and direct in our communication.

Why Relay Payments

• This is a game-changing chance to join one of Atlanta’s best-funded, most well-positioned fintech start-ups.
• We are generously sharing equity in the company - everyone’s an owner!
• We invest in your future with our 401K match program and dedicated personal/professional development funds. 
• Do what’s best for your mental, physical and emotional health with our “Be Reasonable” PTO policy.
• We offer competitive benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance.
• And lots, lots more!

Relay Payments is an equal opportunity employer. At Relay Payments, we make all employment decisions, which include hiring, promoting, transferring, demoting, evaluating, compensating and separating, without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, religion, age, national origin, pregnancy, citizenship, disability, service in the uniform services, or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.