--- title: 'Data Engineer II at DailyPay' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/data-engineer-ii-dailypay-new-york-kzpnphcratd5' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-17' --- # Data Engineer II at DailyPay - **Company:** DailyPay - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dailypay/a3b94dcb-b60e-4752-8d76-7335d758fc6b ## Job description About Us: DailyPay is the leader in On-Demand Pay, helping employers modernize how people get their pay. DailyPay serves more than 1,900 employers and over 6 million employees, including many of the world's 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 [DailyPay's Press Center.](http://www.dailypay.com/press) 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 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 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 lake houses, and data warehouses - 1+ years of experience with dbt (Data Build Tool), including implementing data quality checks and testing frameworks - 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 - 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 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. ## About DailyPay ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: DailyPay is the leading on-demand pay platform that gives employees access to their earned wages before payday, integrated seamlessly with employer payroll and HR systems. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D-1) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial services (earned wage access / on-demand pay) - **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise organizations, plus a self-serve solution for small businesses; also partners with public sector and recently expanded to the UK. - **Mission or purpose**: “Revolutionize how people get paid” and “create more opportunities for employees and employers to win together.” ## Products & Services - **[On-Demand Pay](https://www.dailypay.com/)**: Core platform that allows employees to access up to 100% of earned wages between paychecks. Integrates with existing HCM, payroll, banking, and benefit applications with minimal employer disruption. - **[DailyPay Card](https://www.dailypay.com/)**: A card with cash back rewards, savings tools, and international remittances – no pre-existing checking or savings account required. - **[DailyPay Tips®](https://www.dailypay.com/)**: Instant access to gratuities for tipped workers. - **[DailyPay Reward](https://www.dailypay.com/)**: Reimagines bonus and incentive distributions, letting employees access reward funds immediately. - **[Cycle by DailyPay](https://www.dailypay.com/)**: Platform for off-cycle payments (e.g., commissions, one-time payments). - **[Credit Health](https://www.dailypay.com/)**: Financial wellness tool that helps users build and monitor their credit. - **Self‑Serve On‑Demand Pay**: A low‑touch solution designed for small businesses, launched in 2024. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company). - **Key Metric**: - Annual Revenue: ~$300M (estimated, per LinkedIn). - Total Funding: $1.8B (mix of equity and debt; largest equity round: $75M Series D-1 led by Carrick Capital Partners in January 2024). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Carrick Capital Partners (lead, Series D-1), Barclays (debt financing), and other institutional investors from previous Series A ($5M), B ($18M), C ($55M), and D ($175M) rounds. - **Growth Signals**: - Serves 1,000+ employers daily. - 708 employees (+4.4% YoY). - Expanded into the public sector and the United Kingdom in 2024. - Launched new products (Card, Tips, Credit Health, self‑serve). - Total borrowing capacity increased to $835M (2024). ## Competitive Advantages - **First‑mover and market leader** in employer‑integrated on‑demand pay with the highest employee adoption in the industry. - **Deep integration ecosystem** – works with virtually all major HCM, payroll, and banking systems, making switch minimal for employers. - **Strong financial backing** with significant debt capacity to fund client growth and product innovation. - **Regulatory & compliance expertise** (not detailed but implied by their public sector and global expansion). ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Accelerating public‑sector adoption, international expansion (UK first), broadening the product suite (Card, Tips, Credit Health), and launching self‑serve solutions for small businesses. - **Direction for growth**: Become the standard for all forms of pay distribution and employee financial wellness; deepen the platform with banking‑like features. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Employees describe the culture as customer‑focused, data‑driven, and collaborative. Core values include “Put Customers First,” “Own the Outcome,” “Win Together,” “Treat Time as Precious,” “Drive Action with Data,” and “Challenge the Norm.” DailyPay has been recognized as an “award‑winning workplace.” - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Multi‑generational, global workforce with offices in the US and UK and growing; employees work “everywhere” (remote/hybrid model). - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Emphasis on continuous learning, bold thinking, and agility. The engineering team is sizable (116 employees, ~12% of staff) and works on a high‑scale platform. Recent active job postings indicate strong hiring in engineering, product, sales, and operations. ## Sources 1. [dailypay.com - About Us](https://www.dailypay.com/about-us/) 2. [dailypay.com - Homepage](https://www.dailypay.com/) 3. [dailypay.com - Careers](https://www.dailypay.com/careers/) 4. 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