Senior Software Engineer

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
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work alongside a supportive, high-impact team of skilled developers to improve how our teams deploy and access services, how data moves across our platform, and how we automate operations to enable future scale. Our teams specialize in developing robust and scalable Go microservices, leveraging a modern tech stack that includes AWS, Docker, Postgres, and Kafka. We are looking for engineers passionate about building high-quality solutions who thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
How You Will Make An Impact
Build Scalable Services: Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services and APIs that support our evolving platform.
Drive Architectural Evolution: Contribute directly to the transition to microservices by designing clean APIs and event-driven architectures.
Optimize Data Performance: Enhance database performance and data structures to support high-traffic, real-time applications and seamless data movement.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with various teams to ensure technical solutions are perfectly aligned with business requirements and user needs.
Champion Engineering Excellence: Mentor fellow engineers and perform thorough code reviews to drive best practices in Golang.
Automate for Scale: Identify opportunities to automate operations, making it easier for other teams to deploy and access their services efficiently.
Solve High-Traffic Challenges: Apply pragmatic engineering to handle the complexities of moving data across a distributed platform at scale.
What You Bring To The Team
Strong Technical Foundation: 4+ years of hands-on software development experience, including at least 2 years working with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C#, etc.).
Microservices Expertise: Demonstrated experience designing and developing microservices within cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Code Quality: A proven ability to write maintainable, high-quality, and robust code with a pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
Data & Messaging Proficiency: Experience working with SQL databases and a solid knowledge of message queues (Kafka, SQS) and asynchronous processing patterns.
Effective Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to describe technical designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Infrastructure & Methodology: Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure, basic networking, and Agile/Kanban methodologies.
What We Offer
Competitive compensation
Opportunity for equity ownership
Private health insurance option
Employee Resource Groups
Fun company outings and events
Generous PTO Allowance
5% Pension contribution
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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.

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