Data Engineering Manager
Chime is the largest and fastest-growing player in the challenger-banking space, providing mobile and online banking technology in the U.S. on behalf of partner banks and facilitating over 10M accounts with no physical branches. We’re a technology company relentlessly focused on helping our members achieve financial peace of mind. That’s why we offer access to an award-winning bank account that doesn’t charge a ton of traditional bank fees, can give members early access to their paychecks, and enables members to grow their savings automatically. And we’re just getting started. We are proud of our mission, devoted to our members, and passionate about applying technology to the challenge of making financial health a reality for everyone.
We have one of the most experienced management teams in Fintech and have raised over $800M in funding from DST, General Atlantic, Iconiq, Coatue, Dragoneer, Menlo, Access, Forerunner, and others. If you’re looking to join a fast-growing company with a beloved, daily-use product and an authentic mission that puts people first, we want to meet you.
About the Role
Chime is looking for an engineering leader to help manage and guide the Data Engineering team to drive the company toward clean and informative data. As a manager of the data engineering team, you'll contribute towards a clear, concise data model to help power the data science and Analytics teams to make data informed decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with our engineering leaders to Identify bottlenecks in our existing data infrastructure and guide the team through a path forward to improve and scale it. Ensure that technical decisions support our quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals.
- Lead a high-caliber team of engineers to solve these problems while being hands on. Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement. Establish a sense of urgency and direction, set expectations with team and individuals.
- Establish team objectives in alignment with business goals.
- Contribute to overall engineering initiatives as a member of Chime’s engineering leadership team.
- Hire world-class engineers and provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members.
- Lead key technical and design discussions with technical leads across engineering, and provide detailed guidance on technology and systems that should be used to track data as well as the exact data that should be collected.
- Act as a project manager for the projects that your team is responsible for.
- Provide technical leadership to your team by giving guidance on designs and coding when time allows.
- Help manage and consult in designing our data initiatives.
- Create clear definitions of key metrics and standardize their usage across the company.
- Help us to define, build and maintain a clear, concise data model, especially focused on scalable product analytics infrastructure
- Build scalable data engineering solutions & frameworks to solve business and data problems
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience managing a data engineering team
- Strong hand on experience in building data pipelines, data infrastructure like self service ETLs, data lakes, distributed data systems.
- Strong advocate of data governance and data quality
- You enjoy mentoring engineers through considerate, timely and thoughtful feedback and provide guidance based on your engineering experience
- You care about the process of engineering, and continually strive to make things more scalable and safe while improving the velocity of engineers around you
- A desire to grow as an engineering leader through collaboration with a diverse team, code reviews, and learning new technologies
- You have significant experience with one or more programming languages (bonus points if they include Python!)
- You love to tackle interesting problems with a team and following them through to the end
- Love to make a huge difference at a growing start-up.
- Ability to motivate a team through delivery on aggressive schedules and goals.
Nice to Have
- Experience with AWS ecosystem
- Familiarity with scaling data systems with a focus on ROI
- Experience in building self-service data services
What we offer
- Competitive salary based on experience, medical and dental benefits, as well as a 401k match.
- Free snacks and drinks, plus weekly catered lunches (when back in office!).
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Monthly happy hours and company events.
- A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help create a completely new kind of banking service.
We know great work isn’t done alone. We’re building a team of individuals to Chime in with their different strengths to benefit our employees and members. We strongly believe that different backgrounds and ideas are a competitive advantage; 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. 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.