Data Engineer

PayIt

Kansas City, USonsite$100k-$125k/yrPosted Aug 7, 2026
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Skills

kubernetessnowflakesupersetpostgresmongotableauairflowjenkinslookerdockergithubpythonazurecicdgooglecloudawsdbt

About the role

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:

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, Azure

Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL and Cloud data storage technologies - AWS DocumentDB, MongoDB, Postgres and Snowflake experience preferred

Experience with building ETL solutions and transforming data between different types of sources

Experience with modern, Python-based data orchestration tools like 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.

Bonus Points For:

Experience working with large-scale distributed systems, developing real-time payments systems, and/or working with financial, accounting, or payments systems

Experience with CI/CD such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins

Experience working with data lakes and/or data warehouses

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Knowledge of microservices architectures

Experience developing software professionally following agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban)

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 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.

Compensation

This Data Engineer role pays $100k-$125k/yr. Within typical range for data engineer roles in United States.

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