Engineering Manager, Data Platform

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager on Chimes Data Platform leading the Data Storage team you will own the group that manages Chimes online and analytical data stores and low-latency metric serving layer. Your team will be responsible for building and operating reliable scalable and secure storage foundations that power analytics experimentation and AI-driven product experiences across Chime.

Youll partner closely with other Data Platform squads as well as Product Engineering Security and Analytics teams to define storage strategies data contracts and SLAs that support both high-scale batch workloads and latency-sensitive online use cases. Your leadership will directly impact how Chime stores governs and serves data - enabling trusted self-serve AI-ready data for Chimers across the company.

This role is not just about running infrastructure - its about setting a vision for the future of data storage at Chime fostering a culture of technical excellence and growing a high-performing team that can evolve our architecture as the business and our data scale.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $199000 and up to $275000. 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

• Own the strategy and roadmap for Chimes Data Storage Platform including Snowflake data lake and online data stores for low-latency access.
• Design and evolve scalable high-performance storage architecture that balance reliability cost and ease of use for both analytical and in-product workloads.
• Ensure performant and secure data access by defining and enforcing access patterns partitioning and clustering strategies indexing and caching and serving layers for key datasets and metrics.
• Collaborate across Data Platform and partner teams to define clear data contracts schemas and SLAs between producers storage and consumers.
• Build tooling and automation for governance and compliance across sinks (e.g. RBAC PII protection tokenization lineage and auditability) in partnership with Security Risk and Compliance.
• Manage and grow a team of engineers setting clear expectations providing coaching and feedback and raising the bar on engineering quality and operational excellence.
• Establish strong operational practices including on-call incident management postmortems and SLOs for the storage and serving layers your team owns.
• Stay ahead of industry trends in data storage lakehouse architectures and AI/ML-ready data systems and thoughtfully introduce technologies that improve our platforms capabilities.

To thrive in this role you have

• Have 8 years of experience in high-scale high-reliability software development with a focus on platforms infrastructure and data storage systems.
• Have 3 years of experience managing engineering teams including hiring performance management and developing engineers.
• Have a track record of scaling products platforms and operations to support rapid growth in data volume complexity and criticality.
• Bring deep experience with data infrastructure components such as data lakes and lakehouses (e.g. Iceberg) data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake) online and offline data stores and both batch and real-time streaming systems.
• Have proven expertise in system and data architecture for scalable secure and cost-efficient data platforms including schema design data modeling and partitioning strategies.
• Are comfortable working with modern data and infrastructure technologies such as Spark Flink Kafka Airflow Kubernetes and similar tools.
• Are proficient in Python or similar languages (e.g. Java Scala) and familiar with SQL and performance tuning for analytical workloads.
• Have extensive experience in cloud-based data ecosystems such as AWS (S3 DynamoDB Redshift Snowflake EMR) GCP (BigQuery Dataflow) or Azure equivalents.
• Understand data governance security and compliance best practices (e.g. RBAC PII handling auditability) and have helped design systems that meet regulatory and internal standards.
• Are deeply interested in the transformative potential of advanced AI systems and how to build AI-ready data foundations (metadata lineage semantic layers feature and metric serving).
• Excel at building strong relationships with stakeholders across engineering product analytics security and finance and can translate between technical and business contexts.
• Demonstrate strong people leadership with a track record of building a culture of belonging and engineering excellence.

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A little about us

At Chime we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chimea financial technology company not a bank*on the premise that core banking services should be helpful easy 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 its starting a savings account purchasing a first car or home launching a business or pursuing higher education were proud to have helped millions unlock their financial potential.

Were 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 owners 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 peoples trustso we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. These arent just words on a wallour 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 dontwho 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 for our full-time regular employees

• Our in-office work policy is designed to keep you connected - with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices plus team and company-wide events depending on location. Whether youre coming in regularly or are part of our fully remote program youll stay engaged with your work and teammates.
• In-office perks including backup child elder and/or pet care plus a subsidized commuter benefit to support your regular commute
• 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 Chimersthink 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 cant be done without a diverse team and inclusive environment. Thats 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.

Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity age marital or family status disability genetic information veteran status or any other legally protected basis under provincial federal state and local laws regulations or ordinances. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and local laws including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Cook County Ordinance NYC Fair Chance Act and the LA City Fair Chance Ordinance and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during any stage of the application process please contact: .

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