We, at Flywire, are looking for a smart, analytical thinker who’s excited to empower data-driven decision making at an exciting and fast-growing organization! As our Data Engineer, you will work within the Data Analytics team to ensure that our organization has access to reliable, accurate, and timely data to be used in various reporting, business intelligence, and analytical solutions. Great data aptitude is a must for this role, but we’re also looking for someone that’s willing to work across Flywire teams to understand real business problems and design solutions that will ultimately provide insights into the performance of the company, improve process efficiencies, and contribute to our company’s ability to provide a world-class cross-border payment solution

Key responsibilities:

• Own the maintenance and ongoing development of Flywire’s analytical data infrastructure
• Develop production-grade data pipelines and ETL processes to support analytics projects, business intelligence reporting, and machine-learning solutions
• Continuously identify and implement data process improvements (e.g., optimize data delivery, re-design for scalability, implement testing and alerting systems to assure data quality, etc.)
• Own maintenance of documentation and data dictionaries for various internal data sources

Minimum Qualification Criteria:

• BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field
• 5+ years of experience of data engineering, database administration, or related work
• Experience with AWS/Amazon Redshift and/or Google Cloud Platform is required
• Experience in building data extraction and manipulation scripts in Python
• General understanding of the broader data landscape, trends, and emerging technologies
• Hunger and excitement for learning new tools and techniques
• Excellent problem-solving skills: You may not know the solution to all the problems you’ll face, but you have the ability to research available technologies/strategies and figure out a solution or a path forward
• Strong communication skills: You can make even the most complex data and technical problems easy to comprehend

Preferred Criteria:

• Experience in Business Intelligence development (Tableau, Looker, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability of building streaming data applications
• Practical understanding of classification, regression, and other statistical methods
• Familiarity with Apache Spark
• Proficiency with Spanish

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer.