Senior Analytics Engineer

Company Description

Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!

Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage – the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease – no matter where they are in the world.

What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you! 

Who we are: 

Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, delivering high-stakes, high-value payments across the global education, healthcare, travel and B2B industries.

Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 4,000+ global clients in more than 140 currencies across 240 countries and territories around the world.  And, we’re just getting started!

With over 1,200+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

Job Description

The Opportunity:

We, at Flywire, are seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to join our Analytics team and further scale our data driven company.

As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will bridge the gap between Data Engineering and Reporting to enable our end users to make the most of our data. You will handle data from all areas of the company and succeed through the following responsibilities:

• Own, manage, and further our full dbt environment and related tooling
• Manage efficient materializations of streaming data to balance efficiency and latency
• Explore and implement additional tools to support the wider Analytics team
• Productionalize complex logic and queries into “gold standard” datasets
• Provide dbt support throughout the company
• Optimize dbt models for efficiency, clarity, and scalability
• Remove and reduce technical debt and automate manual operations
• Treat data as a product and enforce testing and CI to catch errors early
• Work with and support company-wide data science/AI initiatives
• Become a subject matter expert to support all business segments
• Work with engineering and product teams to understand and model our event data
• Drive change by identifying areas for improvement while analyzing data

Qualifications

Here’s What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor Degree in Economics, Mathematics, or Computer Science
• 5+ years of experience in an Analytics role
• Strong proficiency in SQL
• Strong proficiency with dbt
• Experience with a cloud data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift)
• Experience with git and CI/CD deployments
• Experience with Python and Docker
• Experience with Elementary or Great Expectations is preferred
• Ability to communicate and follow up with internal stakeholders in a timely manner and excellent attention to detail.
• Experience with BI Tools (Looker or Preset) is a plus

Technologies We Use :

• GCP/AWS
• Fivetran/Apache Beam -> BigQuery -> dbt -> Looker/Preset
• Airflow (GCP Composer)
• Flink and Apache Beam

Additional Information

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation, including Restricted Stock Units 
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flying Start – Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
• Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes, learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
• Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
• Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates 
• Be a meaningful part in our success – every FlyMate makes an impact
• Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in and Digital Disconnect Days!
• Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers!)

Submit today and get started!

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 40 nationalities across 14 different offices diversity, gender equality, and inclusion are at the core of our people agenda. We believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset, and we’re excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.