Software Engineer- Data Platform

Pagaya is a global technology company making life-changing financial products and services available to more people nationwide as it reshapes the financial services ecosystem. By using machine learning a vast data network and a sophisticated AI-driven approach Pagaya provides comprehensive consumer credit and residential real estate solutions for its partners their customers and investors. Its proprietary API and capital solutions integrate into its network of partners to deliver seamless user experiences and greater access to the mainstream economy. Pagaya has offices in New York and Tel Aviv. For more information visit.

About the Role

The Data Engineering team is a cross-functional team responsible for data integration monitoring and quality. This includes automating data flows alerting fetching and checking across various stages of data transformation and projection.

Key Responsibilities

• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
• Develop data architecture for data ingestion validation and processing.
• Identify design and implement process improvements such as automating manual tasks optimizing data delivery and redesigning infrastructure for enhanced scalability.
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture using microservices.
• Work with other members of the data team including data architects data analysts and data scientists.

Key Takeaways

• Use the tools and languages that are best suited to the job - Complete flexibility to problem-solving with novelty and creativity encouraged.
• Be around very bright and lovely people.
• Your intellectual curiosity and hard work contributions will be welcome to our culture of knowledge sharing transparency and shared fun and achievement.
• Provide education and documentation to empower team members to make the most of technical resources.
• Contribute to our software engineering culture of writing correct maintainable elegant and testable code.
• Utilize AWS services and tools such as S3 EventBridge Athena and DynamoDB to build a robust and scalable data architecture for data ingestion processing and storage.
• Collaborate on data infrastructure that supports LLM-driven workflows leveraging tools like Cursor to accelerate code development enhance reproducibility and streamline iteration on intelligent systems.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer using Python.
• Experience with microservices and K8s.
• Experience in ELT/ETL processes and SQL with strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate and interpret complex data.
• Building and designing complex applications.
• Willingness to get your hands dirty understand a new problem deeply and build things from scratch when they dont already exist.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related fields from reputable academic institutions.

Our Team

Pagaya was founded in 2016 by seasoned research finance and technology entrepreneurs and we are now 500 strong in New York Los Angeles and Tel Aviv.

We move fast and smart identifying new opportunities and building end-to-end solutions from AI models and unique data sources. Every Pagaya team member is solving new and exciting challenges every day in a culture based on partnership collaboration and community.

Join a team of builders who are working every day to enable better outcomes for our partners and their customers.

Our Values

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. We believe great solutions are built through a great community.

• Advance Inclusion- We create a world where everyone can win designing systems that better represent people and generate sustainable value for our employees partners and investors.
• Be Accountable Together- We proudly own our actions and our results taking initiative to ensure our work gets over the finish line as a team.
• Continuously Learn- We challenge ourselves for the sake of getting better as individuals as teams and as an organization to deliver for our partners.
• Debate and Commit- We respectfully and openly debate to strengthen our ideas and build shared conviction - once we decide we go all in together.
• Dream Big and Act- We boldly tackle complex problems pressure-test solutions in real-time and adapt with speed and energy.

More than just a job

We believe health happiness and productivity go hand-in-hand. Thats why were continually looking to enhance the ways we support you with benefits programs and perks that allow every Pagayan to do the best work of their life.

Pagaya is an equal opportunity employer. Pagaya is encouraging diversity and actively seeking applicants from all backgrounds as are committed to creating a diverse workforce together with an inclusive environment for all. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications skills and business needs.

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