Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform (San Francisco)

Chime is a fintech company offering banking services and personal loans to millions of members. Chime’s Data Platform team builds the infrastructure every engineering and analytics team depends on - ingestion, transformation, quality, governance, and self-serve tooling across batch and streaming workloads.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate self-serve ETL/ELT frameworks supporting both batch and streaming workloads, with direct ownership of pipeline reliability
• Drive the technical roadmap for our data platform - evaluate build-vs-buy decisions, define integration patterns
• Partner with Product Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing as a technical lead to design data contracts, onboard new data domains
• Architect and enforce data lineage, schema registry, and access controls across all domains - ensuring compliance with fintech regulatory
• Own the platform - monitor, alert, debug, and resolve incidents across the data platform with the urgency expected of infrastructure that powers
• Raise the technical bar of the team through code review, design reviews, and hands-on mentorship of junior and mid-level engineers

Requirements

• 5+ years building, shipping, and operating data infrastructure in production - not just writing pipelines, but owning their reliability, performance
• Strong system design skills - you’ve written design docs, made trade-offs, and delivered the result
• Solid understanding of key metrics for data pipelines and experience building solutions to provide visibility to partner teams
• Deep proficiency in Python or Java/Kotlin, with strong opinions on testing, code quality, and maintainability in data-heavy codebases
• Production experience with the modern data stack, specifically:
• A cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift)

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California
• A cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift)

Salary and benefits

US base salary $187,000 to $259,000 a year. Chime also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.