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Chess.com

Data Engineer - Payments

🇺🇸 Remote - US

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Data Science

🗓️ August 4th, 2025

Airflow BigQuery Python

Edtech.com's Summary

Chess.com is hiring a Data Engineer - Payments. The role involves building and maintaining data pipelines, transforming financial data from various Payment Service Providers into a unified model, and ensuring data quality through testing frameworks. The position requires collaboration with engineering teams to support and develop internal payment systems and broader data platform initiatives.

Highlights
  • Develop expertise in raw data from multiple Payment Service Providers and internal payment tables.
  • Write SQL to consolidate data into a comprehensive financial model for the business.
  • Build and maintain data pipelines handling APIs, flat files, and SFTP servers using BigQuery, Airflow, and Workato.
  • Create testing frameworks to validate and ensure data quality.
  • Collaborate with data and payments engineers to enhance internal payment systems and support product analytics.
  • Required technical skills include extensive experience with BigQuery, SQL, Python for data pipelines, and infrastructure deployment with Terraform.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills are essential for working in a fully distributed remote team.
  • Preferred candidates demonstrate ownership, attention to data anomalies, and a continuous learning mindset.
  • The role is full-time and fully remote, supporting Chess.com's global, mission-driven team.
  • Familiarity with Chess.com or being a chess player is a plus.

Data Engineer - Payments Full Description

Data Engineer - Payments
Engineering
Remote

About Us
Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

We are a team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 200M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community!

We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.

About You
You are a data nerd with strong analytical and technical skills.  You have built and maintained data pipelines in production and you are able to make technology decisions about tooling and operations.  You are also able to untangle complex schemas across multiple databases in order to apply detailed financial business logic. You are comfortable working with engineers in other teams to communicate downstream data requirements. You are humble with a sense of humor and don’t take yourself too seriously. 

Big Challenges
  • We have many Payment Service Providers across multiple Business Entities.
  • We need to build pipelines and deploy business logic to bring financial data into NetSuite.
  • We have a MASSIVE amount of activity to be logged and parsed for social feeds and product optimization.

What you'll do
  • Become an expert in all the details of our Payment Service Provider’s raw data and our internal payment tables
  • Write SQL to transform data into a single financial model for the whole business
  • Build and maintain data pipelines from APIs, flat files, and SFTP servers through BigQuery and into NetSuite
  • Build a testing framework to ensure data quality
  • Orchestrate jobs with Airflow
  • Use Workato - a PAAS integration tool - for components of our financial data pipelines
  • Work closely with data and payments engineers to develop our internal payments systems
  • Collaborate across the data team at Chess on everything from product analytics to data platform design

Preferred Skills
  • Extensive experience with BigQuery and SQL
  • Extensive experience using Python for data pipelines
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
  • Experience building and supporting data pipelines
  • Experience deploying infrastructure as code through Terraform
  • Serious attention to small details
  • The ability to hunt down subtle data anomalies
  • Sense of ownership and responsibility
  • Chess player
  • Lifelong learner

About the Opportunity
  • This is a full-time opportunity
  • We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
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