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New York, New York, United States
Hybrid
About Us:
DailyPay is transforming the way people get paid. As a worktech company and the industry’s leading on demand pay solution, DailyPay uses an award-winning technology platform to help America’s top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job while supporting their financial well-being outside of the workplace.
DailyPay is headquartered in New York City, with operations throughout the United States as well as in Belfast. For more information, visit DailyPay's Press Center.
DailyPay is looking for a Data Engineer II to join our Data Engineering Team. The Data Engineering Team is responsible for building the data infrastructure that underpins our data analytics and data products that are used cross-functionally inside the company (finance, sales, marketing, operations, engineering, etc.) as well as by DailyPay partner companies. The team also ingests internal and external data to help provide insights about the payroll industry in general, as well as about personal finance and financial wellbeing.
Build and maintain company’s ETL and data pipelines
Design and implement data testing and scaling capabilities
Maintain and optimize monitoring and alerting for company’s ETL and data pipelines, data warehouse, and analytics infrastructure
Optimize database performance while reducing warehouse costs and development times
Participate in code approvals and PR review process for company-wide analytics engineering efforts
Produce, support and maintain data reports, analytics, metrics and dashboards for internal and external use
4+ years SQL experience; expert SQL capability
Interest in utilizing AI to develop more efficient systems, improve proactive alerting, and optimize query performance
Experience in data storage architectures, including dimensional models, data lakes, data lakehouses, and data warehouses
Experience working in an event-driven architecture and cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
Experience working with large volumes of data, making models performant and scalable
Familiarity with BI tools (e.g Tableau, Looker, or similar)
Excellent presentation and communication skills
Experience with MPP data warehouses, such as Snowflake or BigQuery.
Familiarity with ETL tools, such as Fivetran or Stitch
Ability to reverse-engineer legacy reports and rebuild them into structured, automated solutions
Excellent skills in explaining technical data concepts to non-technical finance and operations partners
Nice to Haves:
Familiarity with Python, Go, or similar languages for custom data processing and automation
1+ years of experience with dbt (Data Build Tool), including implementing data quality checks and testing frameworks
Experience working with financial/accounting data or platforms such as NetSuite, Sage, or similar ERP systems
Experience with CI/CD, automated releases, and orchestration tools like Airflow
Familiarity with reverse ETL tools (e.g., Hightouch or Census) to push data from the warehouse into business applications
Exceptional health, vision, and dental care
Opportunity for equity ownership
Life and AD&D, short- and long-term disability
Employee Assistance Program
Employee Resource Groups
Fun company outings and events
Unlimited PTO
401K with company match
High-performing cultures aren't built in silos, they thrive on partnership. At DailyPay, we Commit Together to an inclusive, professional environment where multifaceted perspectives are our greatest competitive advantage. We recognize that our team members don’t live “single-issue lives,” and we lean into the wide-ranging backgrounds and life stages that sharpen our collective decision-making.
In our high-trust environment, we empower you to Challenge Norms. We’ve created a space where it is safe to ask difficult questions, disrupt the status quo, and share bold perspectives without fear of professional fallout. We believe that by checking our own assumptions and staying curious about the experiences of others, we arrive at better, more innovative results.
We provide the space for you to do your best work through peer advocacy and transparent career development. If you are looking for a culture that values intellectual honesty, celebrates the unique lived experiences of its people, and thrives on collective success, you’ll find it here.
If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to peopleops@dailypay.com. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.
DailyPay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.
