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Data Engineer II

DailyPay


Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 120000 - 140000
Posted: 19 August 2026 (17 days ago)
Application Deadline: 22 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Us:
DailyPay is the leader in On-Demand Pay helping employers modernize how people get their pay. DailyPay serves more than 1900 employers and over 6 million employees including many of the worlds most recognized brands. By providing real-time access to earned pay and financial wellness tools DailyPay helps employees manage their finances and helps employers attract and retain talent. DailyPay is helping define the future of pay where money moves at the speed of work.. Learn more at DailyPays Press Center.

The Role:

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.

How You Will Make an Impact:
  • Build and maintain companys ETL and data pipelines

  • Design and implement data testing and scaling capabilities

  • Maintain and optimize monitoring and alerting for companys 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

What You Bring to The Team:
  • 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

What We Offer:
  • 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 arent 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 dont 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. Weve 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 youll find it here.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process please send a request to . 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.


Required Experience:

IC


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An on-demand pay platform that delivers early access to earned wages and works with all HR/HCM/payroll systems.

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