Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering
About the role
The Data Engineering team at Chime is focused on building scalable data artifacts and insights to enable accurate, governed, data-driven decision-making. As a core member of the team, you will build scalable data pipelines and frameworks, and architect workflows that could set industry standards in fintech.
Responsibilities
- Be a hands-on data engineer, building, scaling, and optimizing ETL pipelines
- Design data schemas and scale them for 10x data growth
- Own all aspects of data—quality, governance, schema design, security
- Develop scalable data architecture and standardized data models to enable self-serve data insights using AI
- Own ETL workflows, ensuring pipelines meet data quality and availability requirements
- Work closely with partner teams like Data Science, Analytics, and DevOps
- Participate in an on-call rotation, responding to incidents outside regular working hours when necessary
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience transforming data into governed and lucid datasets
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying production-quality data pipelines
- 5+ years of experience working with stakeholders to provide business insights
- 5+ years of experience writing SQL, Spark, AWS Glue, EMR, Airflow, and Python
- 3+ years of hands-on experience using MPP database systems like Snowflake, AWS Redshift, or Teradata
- Track record of successful partnerships with Analytics, Data Science, and DevOps teams
- Understanding of key metrics for data pipelines and experience building solutions to provide visibility to partner teams
Pay
The base salary for this role ranges from $164,000 to $227,000, depending on location, skills, qualifications, and experience. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus and a competitive equity package.
Benefits
- Four days a week in the office and Fridays from home (for those near an office), plus team and company-wide events
- Backup child, elder, and pet care, and subsidized commuter benefits
- Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits
- Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
- 1% of your time off to support local community organizations
- Annual wellness stipend for eligible expenses
- Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Access to family planning reimbursement
About Us
Chime is a financial technology company dedicated to helping everyone achieve financial progress. We provide user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms to empower members to take control of their finances. Our team is driven by a shared obsession with our members, working tirelessly to deliver the best possible experience. We foster an entrepreneurial culture where diverse perspectives are embraced, and feedback is valued.