Chime Financial, Inc
Tech Lead Manager, Data Integration Platform
San Francisco, CA, USA · Senior · Full-time
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$22,187 more — $221,187 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,187 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- Chime's data integration platform is entering its next phase.
- As our data ecosystem grows, we have a significant opportunity to simplify and standardize how data moves across streaming, batch, and third-party integrations.
- This is a manager-first, hands-on player-coach role.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategy and roadmap for Chime's Data Integration Platform, including ingestion pipelines, connectors, and the infrastructure that moves first-party and third-party data into and out of Chime's ecosystem.
- Stay hands-on through architecture, design and code reviews, and targeted production contributions focused on the highest-leverage platform problems, while coaching engineers and owning team execution.
- Design and evolve scalable, high-performance integration architecture that balances reliability, cost, and ease of use for both analytical and in-product data flows.
- Build and operate reliable connectors and pipelines for diverse sources and sinks across APIs, event streams, file transfers, and change-data-capture.
- Collaborate across the Data Intelligence Platform and partner teams to define clear data contracts, schemas, and SLAs between producers, the integration layer, and consumers including external partners.
- Manage and grow a team of engineers, setting clear expectations, providing coaching and feedback, and raising the bar on engineering quality and operational excellence.
- Have a track record of scaling products, platforms, and operations to support rapid growth in data volume, complexity, and criticality.
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of experience in high-scale, high-reliability software development, with a focus on platforms, infrastructure, and data integration or data movement systems.
- Have 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and developing engineers.
Compensation
- Below is the base salary offered for this role and level of experience.
Company info
- Wage Notice $199,000 - $275,000 USD A little about us At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress.
- From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life.
- Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.
- Your leadership will directly impact how Chime ingests, exchanges, and delivers data - enabling trusted, self-serve, AI-ready data for Chimers across the company.
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