Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Chime; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative financial technology company is seeking a Data Platform Manager to lead their data infrastructure. This pivotal role involves driving innovation and scalability to empower data-driven decision-making across the organization. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and manage a robust Data Platform, ensuring data accessibility and operational efficiency. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of data at a forward-thinking firm that values financial progress for all. Join a team that fosters technical excellence and embraces diverse perspectives to make a meaningful impact.

Benefits

401k match

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Generous vacation policy

Annual wellness stipend

Paid parental leave

Hybrid work policy

Community support time off

In-person and virtual events

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in system architecture design for scalable data platforms.
• Deep experience with data lakes, warehouses, and streaming pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with modern data technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic direction of the Data Platform and design scalable architecture.
• Ensure seamless integration of data systems across the company.
• Mentor and manage a team of engineers in best practices for data engineering.

Skills

System Architecture Design

Data Governance

Leadership Skills

Data Infrastructure Components

Cloud-based Data Ecosystems

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in relevant field

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

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About The Role

As a Data Platform Manager, you will be at the helm of our data infrastructure, driving innovation and scalability to empower data-driven decision-making across our organization. You’ll work closely with cross-functional Engineering and Product teams to architect, enhance, and manage a robust Data Platform that aligns with our core mission: helping everyday people unlock their financial progress.

About The Role

As a Data Platform Manager, you will be at the helm of our data infrastructure, driving innovation and scalability to empower data-driven decision-making across our organization. You’ll work closely with cross-functional Engineering and Product teams to architect, enhance, and manage a robust Data Platform that aligns with our core mission: helping everyday people unlock their financial progress.

Your leadership will directly enhance Chime’s ability to process and analyze large-scale data, ensuring seamless integration across multiple teams while setting the foundation for data accessibility, governance, and operational efficiency.

This role is not just about managing a platform—it's about building a vision, fostering a culture of technical excellence, and leading a team that ensures our data infrastructure meets both present and future needs.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $176,490 and up to $245,100. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

In this role, you can expect to

• Lead the strategic direction of the Data Platform, designing a scalable and high-performance architecture that evolves with the business.
• Ensure seamless integration of data systems across the company, collaborating with Engineering and Product teams to align solutions with business needs.
• Oversee critical infrastructure, including real-time data pipelines, batch processing systems and frameworks that make data compute accessible for engineering teams
• Drive performance optimization, enhancing query performance, reducing latency, and ensuring efficient data compute.
• Implement and enforce data governance, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, security best practices, and internal policies.
• Mentor and manage a team of engineers, fostering innovation and technical excellence while driving best practices for data engineering.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, evaluating and adopting new technologies to enhance our data capabilities.
  
  

To thrive in this role, you have

• Proven expertise in system architecture design for scalable data platforms.
• Deep experience with data infrastructure components, such as data lakes, warehouses, batch and real-time streaming pipelines
• Understanding of data governance and compliance best practices.
• Hands-on experience with modern data technologies, including Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, and similar tools.
• Proficiency in Python or similar languages like Java, or Scala. Familiarity with SQL
• Extensive experience with cloud-based data ecosystems, including AWS (S3, Redshift, Snowflake, EMR), GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow), or Azure.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to manage technical teams and drive cross-functional collaboration.
  
  

A Little About Us

At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank*—on the premise that basic banking services should be helpful, transparent, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. Whether it's starting a savings account, purchasing a first car or home, launching a business, or pursuing higher education, we're proud to have helped millions unlock their financial potential.

We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members. From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life. Their grit and determination inspire us to work harder every day to deliver the very best experience possible. We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our company, and our members.

We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.

We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust—so we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. These aren't just words on a wall—our values are embedded in every aspect of our business, serving as a north star that guides us as we work to help millions achieve their financial potential.

Because if we don't—who will?

• Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC.
  
  

What We Offer

• A thoughtful hybrid work policy that combines in-office days and trips to team and company-wide events depending on location to ensure you stay connected to your work and teammates, whether you’re local to one of our offices or remote
• Hybrid work perks like backup child, elder and/or pet care, as well as a subsidized commuter benefit
• Competitive salary based on experience
• 401k match plus great medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• Generous vacation policy and company-wide Chime Days, bonus company-wide paid days off
• ???? 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
• Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
• Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
• Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.
• In-person and virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers—think cooking classes, guided meditations, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!
• A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress
  
  

We know that great work can’t be done without a diverse team and inclusive environment. That’s why we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas to join our team. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.

We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Cook County Ordinance, and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

To learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see the Chime Applicant Privacy Notice.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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