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San Francisco, CA
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16 days ago

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About Chime

Chime is a financial technology company offering mobile-first banking services including fee-free checking accounts, savings accounts, and a secured credit builder card through partner banks. Industry: Financial Technology & Neobanking

Chime currently has 28 open roles on FindRole.

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Join Chime’s Data Platform team as a senior engineer responsible for designing and operating self-serve ETL/ELT frameworks, ensuring pipeline reliability and data quality SLAs. You’ll drive the technical roadmap by evaluating build-vs-buy decisions and setting standards for engineering teams across the company. Collaborate with Product Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing to design data contracts and scale ingestion while maintaining governance. Architect data lineage, schema registry, and access controls to comply with fintech regulatory requirements like SOX and PII handling. Monitor and resolve incidents impacting financial products, and mentor junior engineers through code reviews and design sessions. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience in building and operating data infrastructure, proficiency in Python or Java/Kotlin, and hands-on experience with modern data stack tools such as Snowflake, Airflow, Terraform, Kafka, and dbt.

What you'll do

  • Design and build self-serve ETL/ELT frameworks for batch and streaming workloads.
  • Set technical standards and evaluate build-vs-buy decisions for data platform tools.
  • Ensure compliance with fintech regulatory requirements through data governance practices.
  • Monitor, debug, and resolve incidents across the entire data platform infrastructure.
  • Mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews to maintain high coding standards.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience building, shipping, and operating large-scale data infrastructure in production.
  • Strong system design skills with proven ability to write design documents and deliver results.
  • Deep proficiency in Python or Java/Kotlin, emphasizing testing, code quality, and maintainability.
  • Production experience with modern data stack technologies including cloud warehouses, workflow orchestration tools, and IaC.
  • Experience building observability features for data systems such as freshness monitoring and SLA dashboards.
  • Knowledge of fintech regulatory requirements and ability to enforce data governance and access controls.

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