About the Role

Data is essential to Chime’s success. The mission of the Data Platform organization is to build a secure and scalable data platform that powers ML, Analytics, Risk, and other domains across Chime. As a core member of the team, er, you’ll build self-service data platform tools and frameworks used across Chime. Additionally, you will have the unique opportunity to architect and build data workflows that could potentially become de facto standards for the fintech industry.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $125,640 and up to $174,500. 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

• Build, scale, and optimize secure, self-service frameworks for batch and streaming data as a hands-on engineer.
• Support the newest Chime product initiatives with your data pipelines.
• Automate and streamline data infrastructure updates and CI/CD deployment processes.
• Enhance workflow scheduling and automation systems.
• Develop tools and frameworks that enhance data governance and improve data quality standards.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and data teams to integrate the data dictionary and establish data lineage across data domains.
• Partner with stakeholders, such as Data Governance, Data Science, Product Engineering, Security, Analytics, and other business partners to meet their data needs.
• Share ownership of critical data aspects, such as security, governance, and quality across all projects.

To thrive in this role, you have

• 2+ years of hands-on experience building, optimizing, and deploying production-quality platform code.
• Experience in Python (or a similar language) and comfort with basic SQL.
• Familiarity with data infrastructure tools like Spark, Flink, Storm, Airflow, Kinesis, or Kafka.
• Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, and a cloud provider stack (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Understanding of key metrics of a data ecosystem and experience building infrastructure or data solutions to partner teams
• [Nice to have] Prior experience with any of the data warehouses like Snowflake, AWS Redshift, BigQuery, or Teradata

A little about us

At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We’re passionate about developing solutions and services to empower people to succeed. Every day, we start with empathy for our members and stay motivated by our desire to support them in ways that make a meaningful difference.

We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank*-- founded on the premise that basic banking services should be helpful, transparent, and fair. Chime helps unlock the access and ability our members need to overcome the systemic barriers that block them from moving forward. By providing members with access to liquidity, rewards, and credit building, our easy-to-use tools and intuitive platforms give members the ability to have more control over their money and to take action toward achieving their financial ambitions.

So far, we’re well-loved by our members and proud to have helped millions of people unlock financial progress, whether they started a savings account, bought their first car or home, opened a business, or went to college. Every day, we’re inspired by our members’ dreams and successes, big and small.

We’re uniting everyday people to unlock their financial progress—will you join us?

*Chime partners with The Bancorp Bank and Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC, that power the bank accounts used by Chime Members.

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 UrbanSitter and Kinside for 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 Take Care of Yourself Days
• 🫂 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
• 🧠 Mental health support with therapy and coaching through Modern Health
• 👶 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and an additional 6-8 weeks for birthing parents
• 👪 Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with up to $10k in 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.

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