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# (Senior) Analytics Engineer at Payrails GmbH

- **Company:** Payrails GmbH
- **Location:** Cairo, Egypt
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/payrails/7a5bb459-dc27-4174-bc11-c173fd3ec91f

## Job description

## About Payrails

Payrails is a global payment software company helping leading enterprises to take control of their payment operations and maximize performance. With deep experience in the payments space and firsthand knowledge of merchants' challenges, we’ve seen how fragmented, complex, and inefficient these systems can become. Now, we are setting a new industry standard for how enterprises around the world manage and optimize payments, with more control, visibility and flexibility than ever before.

Our vision is to reimagine payments from the ground up. We are building a deeply integrated meta layer that spans the entire payment lifecycle with a modular architecture. This helps us give leading brands building blocks to craft solutions to most complex operational challenges, tailor seamless customer experiences and grow their business.

We are backed by some of the world’s top investors including [Andreessen Horowitz](https://a16z.com/portfolio/), [HV Capital](https://www.hvcapital.com/companies), [EQT Ventures](https://eqtventures.com/) and [General Catalyst](https://www.generalcatalyst.com/), who share our mission to simplify payment complexity globally.

At Payrails, we’re committed to building a team of exceptional people - not just talented, but driven to build, solve, and deliver at the highest level. Excellence isn’t just a value here; it’s a way of working. We believe that great people thrive in environments where there’s trust, clarity, and shared purpose. We work openly and collaboratively, with deep respect for each other’s craft. Everyone is encouraged to understand the bigger picture - what we’re building, why it matters, and what stands in the way. When people have that context, they move faster, take ownership, and make better decisions. We care about creating a culture where people feel inspired to do their best work and a deep sense of responsibility to help us bring our vision to life. Success at Payrails means staying focused on the problems that matter most, and executing with purpose.

## Your team

At Payrails, data is at the core of everything we do. We don’t just analyze data; we turn it into actionable insights that fuel smarter decision-making and drive the future of our products. As we continue to revolutionize the payments industry we are seeking an exceptional Senior Analytics Engineer to help us in our mission. Our tech team offers you the chance to work alongside a group of highly ambitious and knowledgeable Engineers, while being faced with complex problems that affect customers on a global scale.

## How you will make an impact

- Develop and maintain our data warehouse and curated, analytics-ready datasets used across the company.
- Own and evolve our dbt codebase, applying best practices in modularity, testing, and documentation.
- Integrate 3rd party data sources (e.g. HubSpot, GitHub, Linear) into our data ecosystem to enrich reporting and analytics.
- Build and maintain tooling and infrastructure to improve the development experience (DevX) of our analytics and business users.
- Partner with analysts and stakeholders to design and implement scalable data models that support self-serve analytics.
- Advocate for data engineering and analytics best practices, ensuring a culture of data trust, documentation, and reproducibility.
- Champion data democratization — ensuring teams have the right tools and trusted data to make informed decisions.

## What we are looking for

- Proven experience in analytics or data engineering roles, with a strong focus on enabling downstream analytics and reporting.
- Strong proficiency in Python for scripting, tooling, and data transformation tasks.
- Hands-on experience with dbt and SQL-based data transformation pipelines.
- Deep understanding of data modeling principles (e.g. dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schema).
- Familiarity with modern OLAP data warehouses like Snowflake (preferred), BigQuery, or Redshift.
- Experience working with orchestration tools such as Airflow or similar.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerized environments (Docker; Kubernetes is a plus).
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Self-starter mindset with a passion for clean, documented, and tested data code

## What we offer

- High impact and high velocity environment with the most talented and ambitious people you will ever work with
- A chance to shape the story of a company and a category from the ground up
- Real ownership. You’ll have the freedom and trust to build, test, and take lead
- A product used by the best brands around the world
- Hybrid working with an office in the heart of New Cairo
- Regular team events, activities and off-sites
- Competitive salary and equity package
- 27 days of annual paid vacation

## About Payrails GmbH

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Payrails is a modular financial operating system that helps enterprises orchestrate payments, reconcile transactions, and optimize revenue through a unified, provider-agnostic platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $32M raised in July 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Orkhan Abdullayev, Emre Talay

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Payment infrastructure, fintech, financial operations
- **Target customers**: B2B – high-growth enterprises and global merchants (e.g., Puma, HelloFresh, Vinted, Preply, Flix, Careem, inDrive)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Give fast-moving enterprises the tools to scale without rebuilding at every step.” [payrails.com/about-us](https://www.payrails.com/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **Payment Orchestration**: PSP-agnostic layer to increase approval rates and reduce payment costs.
- **Token Vault & Proxy**: Merchant-led tokenization with PCI DSS compliance for credential ownership.
- **Chargeback Management**: End-to-end dispute resolution from alerts to resolution, reducing losses.
- **Automated Reconciliation**: Smart matching for orders, settlements, and chargebacks – claims 95% reduction in manual ops effort.
- **Unified Analytics**: Real-time visibility across PSPs and payment metrics for finance and payment leads.
- **Fee Monitoring**: Track and optimize payment costs across providers.

[payrails.com](https://www.payrails.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $16.5M (LinkedIn estimate); Total Funding $53.8M across three rounds.
- **Notable Investors**: Andreessen Horowitz (seed 2022), EQT Ventures (seed 2023), HV Capital (Series A 2025).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 116 (+51.7% YoY); operates in 11 countries; trusted by global brands like Puma, HelloFresh, Vinted. [linkedin.com](https://de.linkedin.com/company/payrails)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Modular & provider-agnostic**: Allows enterprises to mix and match payment providers and products without lock-in.
- **Unified data foundation**: Replaces fragmented financial workflows with a single source of truth for analytics, reconciliation, and chargeback management.
- **AI-native workflows**: Agentic infrastructure that optimizes payment performance and recovery of failed payments.
- **Deep enterprise pedigree**: Team built from Stripe, Adyen, Klarna, Delivery Hero – strong domain expertise.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Already active in 11 countries, with recent Series A funding fueling go-to-market.
- **Product depth**: Continuing to build out modular components (tokenization, orchestration, reconciliation) into an integrated operating system.
- **Data-powered optimization**: Helping enterprises turn transaction data into strategic intelligence to maximize revenue and lower costs.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven (“We Listen First”, “We Aim for Excellence”, “We Win as One Team”, “We Iterate Fast”). [payrails.com/careers](https://www.payrails.com/careers)
- **Work environment**: Hybrid working model with offices in Berlin. Visa and relocation support available.
- **Perks**: 27 days annual holiday, wellness & fitness benefits, regular team events, access to exclusive corporate deals and discounts.
- **Engineering culture**: Modern engineering practices with close collaboration; team ships fast and iterates rapidly. Headcount growth indicates scaling trajectory and opportunity.

## Sources
1. [payrails.com](https://www.payrails.com/)
2. [payrails.com/about-us](https://www.payrails.com/about-us)
3. [payrails.com/careers](https://www.payrails.com/careers)
4. [payrails.com/imprint](https://www.payrails.com/imprint)
5. [linkedin.com](https://de.linkedin.com/company/payrails)

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