Data Engineering Intern: Build Real-time Pipelines & Warehouses

Perpay - Career's Page; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 34,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hourly compensation

Espresso bar and full kitchen

Weekly catered lunches

Riverfront office ambiance

Job summary

Perpay is seeking a Data Engineering Intern for Summer 2027 in Philadelphia, PA. You will learn by doing real work, building data pipelines, and collaborating with stakeholders across Risk, Commerce, Marketing, Ops, and Finance within a fast-paced fintech startup.

You will gain hands-on experience with AWS, Redshift Serverless, Airflow, Fivetran, and DataHub, while developing SQL and Python skills to solve real data warehousing problems and support cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in or will receive a Master's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Management, Information Systems, Mathematics, or an equivalent technical discipline, with an expected graduation date between winter 2027 – summer 2028, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience using SQL for acquiring and transforming data.
• Experience with database and/or data warehouse operations.
• Exposure to third-party APIs.

Responsibilities

• As a Data Engineering intern, your main responsibility is to learn, but you'll learn it by doing real work.
• During the summer of 2027, you'll build data pipelines, help design tools and infrastructure for analyzing large volumes of data, and work through real data warehousing problems alongside the team that owns them.
• You'll partner directly with stakeholders across Risk, Commerce, Marketing, Ops, and Finance, and get hands‑on with our full stack, which includes AWS (Redshift, Glue, ECS, DMS), Fivetran, Airflow, DataHub, Terraform, Python, and SQL.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Data warehousing

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science

Equivalent technical discipline

Tools

Airflow

Redshift Serverless

Fivetran

DataHub

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Perpay is seeking a Data Engineering Intern for Summer 2027 in Philadelphia, PA. You will learn by doing real work, building data pipelines, and collaborating with stakeholders across Risk, Commerce, Marketing, Ops, and Finance within a fast-paced fintech startup.

You will gain hands-on experience with AWS, Redshift Serverless, Airflow, Fivetran, and DataHub, while developing SQL and Python skills to solve real data warehousing problems and support cross-functional teams.