Senior Software Engineer, ML Platform

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We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build DailyPays ML platform from the ground up. You will design and build the infrastructure that every machine learning model at DailyPay runs on: feature engineering platform model training and deployment serving infrastructure and the monitoring that keeps it all reliable in production.

This is a software engineering role. You will build the platform that data scientists use to ship models not build the models themselves. You own the infrastructure that makes their work reproducible testable observable and production-safe at scale.

You will work closely with data scientists engineers and product stakeholders to deliver high-quality ML solutions that directly impact DailyPays core products. You are expected to operate with significant autonomy: defining work identifying dependencies and raising the bar for the team around you.

• Platform Ownership: Help architect and build DailyPays unified ML platform - a unified system for model development deployment and monitoring that serves as the backbone for every AI and ML capability at the company.

• Systems Design & Delivery: Design and build scalable reliable services and pipelines covering feature generation model training deployment and inference. Own end-to-end delivery with minimal oversight.

• Self-Service Infrastructure: Build the tooling and guardrails that let data scientists define test and ship features and models independently without needing an engineer in the loop and without bypassing validation lineage or rollback safeguards.

• Cloud Infrastructure: Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure for machine learning workloads balancing cost-effectiveness security and availability.

• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment of ML models and related infrastructure.

• Monitoring & Observability: Design monitoring and alerting systems for ML infrastructure and models using tools like Datadog. Proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact production.

• Technical Leadership: Lead design discussions contribute to architectural decisions and establish team norms for how ML systems are built tested and maintained. Help identify and remove blockers.

• Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers. Share domain knowledge and help build genuine technical depth on the team.

• Security & Compliance: Approach all engineering work with a security lens. Actively look for vulnerabilities in code and during peer reviews. Ensure ML pipelines handle sensitive data in accordance with company policy.

• 5 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production services

• Strong background in distributed systems service-oriented architecture and API design

• Experience across the full software lifecycle: design testing deployment and on-call operations

• Proficiency in Python with a track record of writing production-quality tested maintainable code

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation) including module design and environment separation

• Solid CI/CD experience: GitHub Actions or equivalent; designing and operating deployment pipelines

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes or ECS)

• Experience building or operating ML infrastructure: training pipelines model serving feature stores or model registries

• Strong cloud platform proficiency: AWS preferred (SageMaker Lambda S3 EC2 IAM ECS) or equivalent GCP (Vertex AI Cloud Functions GCS Compute Engine Cloud Run) or Azure (Azure ML Functions Blob Storage VMs AKS) experience

• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (Datadog Prometheus or Grafana)

• Strong SQL skills and experience with data pipeline tooling (dbt Glue Snowflake)

• Excellent communication skills; comfortable working across data science engineering and product teams

• Familiarity with ML frameworks (scikit-learn XGBoost PyTorch) enough to reason about what data scientists hand you

• Knowledge of event streaming platforms (Apache Kafka or equivalent)

• Experience with experimentation infrastructure and A/B testing systems

• Experience in fintech or other regulated industries

• Contributions to open-source infrastructure platform or MLOps projects

• 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:

Senior IC