Senior Analytics Engineer
Remote
About ZBD
ZBD is the embedded money layer for games, pushing the boundaries of how money and games interact to drive engagement, revenue, and loyalty for game studios. Our embedded financial platform powers the full money lifecycle in games: money in, money around, and money out. We handle the compliance and complexity behind the scenes so studios can focus on delivering better player experiences across P2P marketplaces, creator economies, real-money rewards, and esports.
We are a fully remote company with team members across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Everyone here works with a high degree of ownership and independence, and we hire people who thrive in that environment.
The Role
This role will shape how the games industry’s payment infrastructure is run once it is live. Come build it with us.
We’re hiring a Senior Analytics Engineer to build the modeling layer that the rest of the business runs on. This role will be responsible for the transformation layer as we stand up dbt on a new warehouse. You will design and build trustworthy models that finance, compliance, and our product depend on. You will help architect a scalable foundation and set patterns for the team as we drive advanced analytics and reporting across the organization. You will report to the VP, Data.
What You’ll Do
- Own the transformation layer, including dimensional models, tests, and documentation, as we stand up dbt on a new warehouse
- Turn business questions into durable models. Not all work arrives fully specified, so you’ll turn ambiguity into structure and set patterns the team builds against.
- Partner with finance, compliance, and product to define requirements, data definitions, and what “correct” means in our business context
- Monitor what you build, catching and resolving or escalating issues before our stakeholders notice
- Go a layer down into data ingestion, orchestration, or warehouse configuration when warranted, or go a layer up into analysis and decision support when needed
What We’re Looking For
- 7+ years of combined experience across analytics engineering, data engineering, or analytics roles with substantial modeling ownership
- Strong analytical SQL skills – complex joins, window functions, performance-aware queries
- Data modeling / dimensional modeling fluency – you can design schemas from fuzzy requirements, not just query what exists
- Transformation framework experience – dbt preferred, with Dataform, SQLMesh, or equivalent acceptable
- Cloud data warehouse experience – Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or equivalent
- Orchestration engine familiarity – Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or equivalent
- BI / Visualization layer familiarity – Metabase, Hex, Looker, Tableau, or similar
- Engineering hygiene – Git, CI/CD, testing, documentation
- Stakeholder range – you can sit with a finance or compliance lead, ask questions to get to requirements, and leave with a definition you can build against
You don’t need depth in all of these, but if the work sounds like yours, please apply.
Bonus experience we’re also interested in:
- Platform-level experience – working with tools like Terraform / infra-as-code, DMS / CDC, data lake patterns, and data observability
- Experience with financial, payments, or otherwise regulated data – it shortens the learning ramp.