Butter is building the payments stack for the modern subscription economy. We're creating an inclusive remote-first culture that enables our employees to contribute from anywhere in the world. Come join our team to help modernize subscription payments!

You're our data handler. You make sure our data shows up on time, arrives in good condition and leaves the party when appropriate. 

Dirty data gets in the way of reporting, machine learning models and our general sanity.

We ingest 3rd-party data from multiple payment providers, such as Stripe, clean it and normalize it for our schema and machine learning pipelines. We're seeking to build transformation and validation layers as far upstream as possible to ensure a smooth flow of data through our system. The transformation layer will make the data easier to work with for our reporting products and ML models, while the validation layer will ensure the data conforms to our expectations. For example: Is it null, NULL, or 'null'? Is 342 a valid country abbreviation code? 

As we expand our product offering and ingest data from additional companies and 3rd-party providers the complexity of the challenge will evolve over time, keeping the problem fresh.

You'll get to architect our system and lay the foundation for the future from both a technology and a system design perspective. No longer will data show up without being tested and structured, as you'll create a system that checks its worst tendencies. You'll work closely with our ML and Eng team to ensure the design meets their requirements and that data properly flows through the system.

You'll have 3+ years experience and be familiar with distributed systems and data processing frameworks such as Scala and Spark and workflow orchestration tools like Argo and Airflow. You've worked in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure. Yes, other languages/tools are fine as long as you can articulate how you've used the technology to solve similar problems.

Designing a data system from scratch is something that excites you and you're able to clearly articulate the tradeoffs of different approaches. You've likely built some version of this before, validated data, created reports and perhaps dabbled in an ML model or too.

You strongly believe that action creates information.

You want to work on a small team and have lots of responsibility.

You look forward to being scrappy and enjoy overcoming challenges.

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you’re excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply.

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Modern subscription companies accidentally lose up to 4% of their total customer base each year due to churn caused by legitimate payments failing (passive churn). These payments fail either because they are falsely detected as fraud or because of archaic systems in an aging payment ecosystem. 

Butter uses patented machine learning and artificial intelligence to deeply understand the real time state for any given payment and then optimizes for success. Butter offers a free assessment and trial to validate a customer’s found revenue opportunity, integrates with existing payment processors, and charges an ongoing success fee tied to revenue recovered.

Butter typically recovers up to $1M or more of found revenue for our customers and gives 1% back to causes that support our mission of enabling anyone anywhere to have access to the things they deserve and need.

Butter is well funded by leading investors and offers a competitive benefits package including unlimited PTO, 401k, and comprehensive health insurance. The salary range for this position is $112,000 - $234,800.

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you’re excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply.

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Butter Payments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Butter considers all qualified applicants in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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