Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering

Chime Chime · Fintech · San Francisco, CA · Data Engineering

Senior Data Engineer at Chime (fintech) responsible for building, scaling, and optimizing ETL pipelines, designing data schemas, and developing scalable data architecture. The role involves ownership of data quality, governance, and security, and collaboration with Data Science, Analytics, and DevOps teams. Requires strong SQL, Spark, AWS Glue, EMR, Airflow, and Python skills, with experience in MPP databases.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be a hands-on data engineer, building, scaling and optimizing ETL pipelines
  2. Design data schemas and scale them data for 10x data growth
  3. Ownership of all aspects of data - data quality, data governance, schema design, data quality and security
  4. Develop scalable data architecture and standardized data models that enable self-serve data insights using AI.
  5. Own the ETL workflows and make sure the pipeline meets data quality and availability requirements

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Spark
  • AWS Glue
  • EMR
  • Airflow
  • Python
  • Snowflake
  • AWS Redshift
  • Teradata
  • ETL pipeline development
  • Data schema design
  • Data governance
  • Data quality
  • Data security
  • Data architecture
  • On-call rotation

Nice to have

  • stakeholder management
  • business insights
  • visibility solutions

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years experience transforming data to governed and lucid datasets
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience to build and deploy production-quality data pipelines
  • 5+ years of experience working with stakeholders to provide business insights
  • 5+ years of experience writing SQL, Spark, AWS Glue, EMR, Airflow, Python
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience using any MPP database system like Snowflake, AWS Redshift or Teradata
  • Track record of successful partnerships with Analytics, Data Science and DevOps teams
  • Understanding of key metrics for data pipelines and has built solutions to provide visibility to partner teams
  • Engineers are required to participate in on-call rotation