Earned wage access platform delivering paycheck advances through employers
Payactiv runs an earned wage access service that lets hourly workers draw pay before payday, sold through employers. Hiring tilts toward data roles, and job posts focus on loss forecasting, collections and model governance, showing that credit-risk discipline is now as central as user growth. Adoption of OWASP SAMM and BSIMM alongside GuardDuty, KMS and CloudTrail points to a formal security maturity push on AWS.
Payactiv provides earned wage access, letting employees reach wages they have already earned ahead of the regular pay cycle. It sells to employers across sectors such as restaurants, manufacturing, healthcare and retail, positioning the service as a financial wellness benefit for lower-income workers. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, the privately held company has 51–200 employees. It hires in the United States across data, engineering, marketing, finance, sales, operations and security.
Payactiv runs on AWS (EKS, RDS, KMS, CloudWatch) with Kubernetes, Docker and Python, React and React Native front ends, Snowflake, Looker and Tableau for analytics, and Braze, Iterable and Mixpanel for engagement.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating in the United States, led by data and engineering, with marketing, finance, sales, ops and security roles also open at mid to director level.
Job posts point to loss forecasting and cohort analysis, model governance standards, A/B testing, client onboarding improvements, a revenue operations center of excellence, and CI/CD with infrastructure-as-code.
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