Senior Software Engineer, ML Platform

DailyPay, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Equity stake

401K with company match

Unlimited PTO

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

DailyPay, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build DailyPay's ML platform from the ground up.

You will design and deploy the infrastructure used by all machine learning models, including feature engineering, training, deployment, and monitoring at scale. You will work closely with data scientists, engineers, and product stakeholders, operating with autonomy to define work, identify dependencies, and raise the bar for the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong background in distributed systems and API design
• Experience across the full software lifecycle
• Proficiency in Python with production-grade code
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/ECS)
• Experience with ML infrastructure (training pipelines, model serving)
• Cloud platform proficiency (AWS preferred; SageMaker, S3, EC2) or equivalent (GCP/Azure)
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus)
• Strong SQL skills and data pipeline tooling
• Excellent cross-team communication

Responsibilities

• Own design and delivery of DailyPay's unified ML platform
• Build scalable, reliable services for feature generation and model deployment
• Create self-service tooling with validation and rollback safeguards
• Manage AWS infrastructure for ML workloads
• Develop robust CI/CD pipelines for ML models and infra
• Design monitoring and alerting for ML systems
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers
• Ensure security/compliance across ML pipelines
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and product teams

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

ML infrastructure

Observability

SQL

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Grafana/Datadog

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.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build DailyPay's 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 DailyPay's core products. You are expected to operate with significant autonomy: defining work, identifying dependencies, and raising the bar for the team around you.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Platform Ownership: Help architect and build DailyPay's 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.

What You Bring to the Team

• 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

Nice to Haves

• 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

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 [e-mail]. 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.