DailyPay, Inc.

Data Engineer II

DailyPay, Inc.$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of expert SQL experience
  • Interest in employing AI for system optimization
  • Experience with data storage architectures (e.g., data lakes, warehouses)
  • Proficient in event-driven architecture and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Ability to handle large volumes of data for performance and scalability
  • Familiarity with BI tools like Tableau or Looker
  • Strong communication skills for technical concepts

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain ETL and data pipelines
  • Design and implement data testing and scaling capabilities
  • Optimize monitoring and alerting for data infrastructures
  • Improve database performance and reduce costs
  • Engage in code approvals and PR review process
  • Produce and maintain analytics reports and dashboards

Benefits

  • 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
Full Job Description
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 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


About DailyPay, Inc.

DailyPay is a financial technology company that provides an on-demand pay platform that enables employees to access their earned but unpaid wages before their regularly scheduled payday. The company was founded in 2015 by Jason Lee and Artjom Jekimtstev and is headquartered in New York City. DailyPay partners with companies to offer its platform as a benefit to their employees, with the goal of reducing financial stress and increasing employee retention. The company has raised over $115 million in funding and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States by Inc. Magazine.
Learn more about DailyPay, Inc.
Size
201 employees
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Founded
2015

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