Data Platform Engineer

We're on a mission to revolutionize financial services for managed service providers — one transaction at a time. By combining cutting-edge payment technology with deep industry expertise, we're building something special. If you're passionate about transforming how companies handle payments or building financial services for the future, you're in the right place.

There is a critical gap in the market: offline, service-based businesses do not have access to the same payment innovations that other industries enjoy. We have set out to change this.

Today, we're helping companies across North America streamline their payment processes, improve cash flow, and focus on what they do best – serving their customers. Our customers report cutting their accounts receivable time in half and reducing outstanding payments by up to 95%, transforming how they operate their business.

Our Values

Our values are not words on a wall – they are the principles that guide every decision we make and shape how we work together to serve our customers. These core beliefs define our culture and drive our success.

Transparency

We believe in radical transparency – both in our product and our company culture. This approach allows us to move quickly, innovate fearlessly, and build trust with our customers and each other.

Partnership

We're not just building software; we're partners in our customers' success. This partnership mentality extends to how we work with each other, tackling challenges and opportunities as one team.

We're students of our industry. Through monthly training sessions with business leaders and regular conference attendance, we stay connected to our customers' evolving needs. This commitment to learning extends to our personal growth – we are always seeking to expand our knowledge and skills.

Empowerment

We believe in ownership and providing equity ownership to every employee. Whether you're in development, sales, or operations, you have the freedom to take initiative and drive results.

Alternative Payments is in an exciting growth phase. With 30+ team members and counting, we're expanding across all departments while maintaining our agility. Here's what growth looks like at AP:

• Career Development: Our team members have grown from BDRs to AEs, and from individual contributors to team leaders. We believe in promoting from within and building leaders from within.
• Industry Leadership: We partner with industry leaders and invite them to meet with and speak to our teams. We encourage teams to attend conferences and develop powerful relationships with customers.
• Company Building: Every team member is part of our company building. Our company is run by the team and as new roles develop, you will have the opportunity to lead and build businesses.

Our Culture

Our culture combines extremely, high performance with genuine work-life balance:

Hybrid Philosophy

We value in-person time and get together monthly with our team, however, work is about impact, not location. We offer the flexibility to work from anywhere, while regular off-sites and conferences keep our team connected and collaborative.

Our team supersedes expectations and breaks boundaries to share knowledge, solve challenges, and drive innovation. Through monthly industry trainings and presentations, we maintain strong connections despite physical distance.

Diverse Perspectives & Thought

Our team spans multiple countries including the US, Canada, and Brazil, bringing together diverse backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints. We believe this diversity makes us stronger and more innovative. Our families come from many more countries and these perspectives help shape our company.

What Our Team Says"There's a contagious energy across the team. We thrive on collaboration, and everyone is eager to jump in, share ideas, and help each other succeed while solving challenging problems."

Jeremy Noskin
Chief of Staff

"Working at Alternative Payments has been the most refreshing career experience."

We want our team to feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work:

Competitive Compensation

• Every employee is granted equity in the business
• Flexible PTO policy
• Vision coverage

Work Setup

• One-time WFH stipend for home office setup
• Regular in-person team events and conferences

Open PositionsLocationEmployment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

As our Data Platform Engineer, you will design, provision, and operate the foundational data infrastructure that powers analytics and reporting across the organization. You'll own everything from spinning up our cloud data warehouse to building the initial ETL pipelines that bring raw data into shape—laying the groundwork for self-service analytics and data-driven decision making.

What You'll Bring

5+ years in software or data engineering, with hands-on experience provisioning and maintaining cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery)

Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) to automate data platform deployments

ETL & Data Modeling

Strong SQL skills and experience building ETL pipelines in Python or Java/Scala

Familiarity with orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster) or transformation tools (dbt)

Solid understanding of data modeling patterns (star, snowflake schemas) and best practices for partitioning, clustering and indexing

Platform Reliability & Security

Experience implementing data quality checks, monitoring (Datadog, Prometheus, Monte Carlo) and alerting for pipelines

Knowledge of data governance and security—IAM, encryption at rest/in transit, PII redaction

Excellent communicator—able to partner with analytics, product and engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions

Strong documentation skills to define data platform standards, runbooks and onboarding guides

What You'll Own

Data Warehouse Provisioning

Architect and spin up our production and sandbox data warehouse environments using IaC

Define resource sizing, scaling policies and cost-optimization strategies

Build and deploy the first wave of ETL pipelines to ingest transactional, event and third-party data

Implement transformations, schema migrations and incremental workflows

Platform Operations & Monitoring

Embed data quality tests and SLA tracking into every pipeline

Set up dashboards and alerts to proactively detect failures, latency spikes or data drift

Standards & Enablement

Establish coding conventions, pipeline templates and best practices for all future data projects

Mentor other engineers and analysts on using the data platform, from query optimization to CI/CD for analytics code

Cross-Functional Partnership

Work closely with BI/analytics teams to understand reporting needs and iterate on data models

Collaborate with application engineers to identify new data sources and automate their onboarding

About Us:

Alternative Payments is a leading payments platform for service-based companies. Our innovative platform enables businesses to automate the entire accounts receivable process and reduce the overall expense of payment processing. We are dedicated to fostering growth and providing exceptional value to our clients.

Our Values

Transparency & Honesty: We operate with transparency to our customers, investors, and other partners, every step of the way.

Dependability: We are dependable. We do what we say we are going to do and we do not cut corners.

Partnership: We are partners to our customers, investors, and each other, and work together to solve exciting massive problems.

Revolutionary & Boldness: We are revolutionary & bold. We break down barriers and walls to build our own walls in a stronger, safer, and simpler manner.

Diversity & Inclusion: We work together with people of all backgrounds and seek different viewpoints to generate stronger partnerships and create a stronger, more inclusive company and world.

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