Data Engineer II

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.

About 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Skills

• 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

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

Pay

Compensation Range: $120K - $140K